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  • A Fight for Human Rights

    A Fight for Human Rights

    10 December 2021

    We all have Human Rights but people with learning disabilities and autism, can be unaware of their rights and abused more easily. Sheffield Voices, our learning disability self-advocacy group, have made a new video that calls for change because their human rights are not being upheld. Their video will be featured at the end of Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust’s conference today to mark International Human Rights Day.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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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

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A fantastic presentation thought provoking and good questions from the floor around promoting this film/message to the general public not just professionals.
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