Disability rights campaigners say they remain optimistic that changes can still be made to the government’s hugely unpopular welfare reform bill before it becomes law. This week, the Commons committee that was examining the bill in detail finished its deliberations, with the Conservative and Liberal Democrat majority ensuring the reforms remained intact. But four Liberal [...]

The future of a disabled computer hacker threatened with extradition to the United States remains unclear, despite his case being discussed by Barack Obama and David Cameron during the US president’s state visit. The president told journalists that Gary McKinnon’s case was “in the hands of the British legal system”, and added: “We have confidence [...]

Union activists have drawn disturbing parallels between the hostility being experienced by disabled benefits claimants and the events that led to the murder of tens of thousands of disabled people in Nazi Germany. Delegates to the TUC’s annual disability conference were told how disabled people in Nazi concentration camps had been forced to wear black [...]

The future of the support that allows disabled people to find and keep work is under serious threat as a result of the financial crisis and government spending cuts, disabled trade unionists have heard. The TUC’s annual disability conference heard from a string of activists who attacked the cuts to public sector spending and the [...]

The Welsh government must join the rest of the UK and draw up its own national strategy for promoting independent living, a parliamentary committee has been told. The joint committee on human rights was hearing evidence from disabled people’s organisations from Scotland and Wales as it began its inquiry into the implementation of disabled people’s [...]