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  • How Well is the Government Upholding your Human Rights?

    22 September 2016

    This is your opportunity to have a say on disabled people’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Let’s Stop Disability Hate Crime

    05 September 2016

    Early September saw a joint Hate Crime event hosted by the Disability Hub and the Religion and Belief Hub as part of ongoing activities by the Equality Hub Network. Disability Sheffield volunteer and activist Deborah Sunday puts together some background to Hate Crime in the UK.
    Everyone deserves respect, yet here in Sheffield people still face physical, verbal and other forms of attacks daily at home and in public due to their personal characteristic such as age; race; religion; sexual orientation; transgender and/or disability. In 2007, the UK criminal justice system defined Hate Crime as: “any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic”. Sadly human rights rules, the Criminal Justice Act and the Equality Act 2010, have not stopped hate crime in the UK. A disability hate incidence can be a one-off incidence in public places such as hospitals and transport. It can also be continuous intimidations and harassments from caregivers; neighbours; local youths; friends and families; work places and classmates to mention a few.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Is South Yorkshire Accessible for Disabled People?

    14 April 2016

    On a recent phone in on BBC Radio Sheffield on 4th April, Toby Foster asked one of the big questions for disabled people on access and whether South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire is accessible for disabled people. Disability Sheffield’s Andrew Crooks asked listeners how they would feel if they weren’t allowed outside of their house?

    FULL ARTICLE
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