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Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is a UK pan-disability charity which was set up with the aim of representing the needs and expectations of disabled people in the UK. Disability Rights UK was formed as a result of several disability charities merging in 2012. [1]
The UK was an early adopter of anti-discrimination legislation in 1995 and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009. [18] The organised disability rights movement in the UK can trace its roots back to the establishment of the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation in the
Health and disability rights organisations in the United Kingdom (1 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Disability organisations based in the United Kingdom" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
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Pages in category "Health and disability rights organisations in the United Kingdom" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Disability Rights Commission; Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (1979) Disability Rights UK; Disabled American Veterans; Disabled Children's Computer Group; Disabled in Action (1970) Disabled Peoples' International; Disability Rights Wisconsin (1977) DisAbled Women's Network Canada
The UK disability rights organisation Scope has been critical of PIP and, while it expressed support in principle for assessing claimants more carefully, took the view that the assessment criteria were flawed, would cause undue hardship to disabled people and were too strongly focused on cutting welfare budgets. [21]
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021