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  • Know your Human Rights

    Know your Human Rights

    06 December 2019

    This new online tool from the British Institute of Human Rights aims to support people with mental health and/or mental health capacity issues, and their advocates, to find out more about human rights and to be able to raise issues in a health and care setting.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Legal Support Project: Help with Transport Discrimination Claims

    Legal Support Project: Help with Transport Discrimination Claims

    14 October 2019

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission legal support project provides funding and legal assistance to help people who have experienced discrimination to pursue their claims and access justice. They now want to challenge transport operators when they have failed to act on their legal responsibilities.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Further Reactions to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill

    21 February 2019

    Following Disability Sheffield joining over one hundred organisations in signing an open letter to Ministers criticising the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, more disabled people’s organisations are reacting to the Human Rights outrage.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • 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
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