Second Investigation Launched By UN Over Britain’s Treatment Of The Poor
to face a high-level inquiry by the United Nations committee
responsible for oversight of disability rights into charges of “grave or
systemic violations” of disabled people’s rights – an investigation
which provoked “fury” among Tory MPs.
The committee has the power to launch an inquiry if it receives
“reliable information” that such violations have been committed by a
country signed up to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) and its optional protocol. Which it did. This is one
investigation focusing on one set of reports of probable abuse by
government of its citizens.
In this investigation the United Nations Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities is holding separate confidential hearings
in the UK as part of an investigation into the effects of welfare cuts,
during which it will speak to campaigners, lawyers and service users.
