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   alex :disabled_knife: (alex@godforsaken.website)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:20:06 JST alex :disabled_knife:

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   obviously the UK press is ignoring this unprecedented human rights investigation, so it's falling to independent disabled journalists to cover it, as usual.

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     alex :disabled_knife: (alex@godforsaken.website)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:20:07 JST alex :disabled_knife:

     UN report released on the UK government's violations of its human rights obligations towards disabled people. this is a follow up to the recent UN inquiry that the UK government was summoned to give evidence at. report finds the UK has made *no progress at all* after prior investigation a few years ago that found "grave and systematic" violation of disabled people's human rights by UK.

     [CW for article text: abuse of disabled people, benefits system, suicides mention]

     https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/04/24/uncrpd-report-april-2024/

     carl marks repeated this.