3 h. ago Rights of protestors, migrant workers and disabled people being ‘failed’ by government, ECHR chief says

The new chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has urged ministers to “ensure rights are protected across the nation”

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14 h. ago A unique app is changing the dating game for disabled and chronically ill people

A unique app is changing the dating game for disabled and chronically ill people

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15 h. ago Nearly 200 UK train stations are inaccessible for disabled people

Navigating train stations can be exceedingly difficult for disabled people, The top 10 UK counties, outside of London, with the least accessible train stations, have been listed.

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29 h. ago Moroccan migrant 'swiped £20,000 worth of laptops, phones and rucksacks from City workers during three

Munir Ghilas, 28, allegedly embarked on the three-month crime spree in central London between July 24 and October 23 this year.

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37 h. ago Tories accused of 'shameful' failure after Kemi Badenoch dismisses grooming gangs record

Labour accused the former Conservative government of having “shamefully failed to implement a single recommendation” from Alexis Jay’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

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3 d. ago Labour has completely abandoned women’s rights, former ECHR chief claims

Baroness Falkner said Labour was traditionally the ‘party of feminism’ but that the current generation of Labour MPs has ‘lost it’

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6 d. ago NIGEL FARAGE: The way Labour has bowed and scraped to China over super

The first duty of any government is to protect the safety and security of its citizens. Judging by this government's craven approach to the Chinese, Labour is miserably failing the people of this country.

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6 d. ago Dominic Raab asked Harry Dunn's family 'what else he could have done' after crash suspect was allowed to leave Britain

Mr Dunn, 19, was struck head-on by Anne Sacoolas whose car was on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire on August 27, 2019, while riding on his motorbike.

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6 d. ago Government failed to treat Harry Dunn's death as a crisis and lost opportunities to bring motorist who hit him to justice, report finds

Mr Dunn, 19, was struck by Anne Sacoolas whose car was on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire in August 2019, while riding on his motorbike.

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6 d. ago 'I'm a wheelchair user, here is what not to do when helping disabled people'

The video was posted ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is held today, December 3. The global campaign is intended to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities

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7 d. ago UK terror watchdog warns national security plan ignores escalating online threats

Independent reviewer says need to protect against online threats is now as important as need for robust armed forcesThe UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws has criticised the government’s latest national security strategy for failing to take online threats more seriously, despite Keir Starmer claiming it would result in “a hardening and sharpening of our approach” in the face of Russian menace.Jonathan Hall KC said it was “a very surprising omission” that the 2025 national security strategy did not focus more on online risks, including from terrorists and hostile states, which he said were now a “major vector of threat”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago New Motability Scheme update for people on PIP or other disability benefits

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced changes to the Motability Scheme during the Autumn Budget.

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9 d. ago RIFFAT FAHAD: 'Migrant workers like me aren't here to take, we just want stability'

Writing for The Mirror, care worker Riffat Fahad says new migration laws are

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9 d. ago Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn

Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harmsThe federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to “abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures – at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations.Border Patrol agents in Arizona forcibly removed a detained man from a cell, handcuffed him and then injected him with ketamine to sedate him in 2023, according to a CRCL document confirming the watchdog’s investigation into the allegation. A Guardian reporter had saved that document just weeks before it was scrubbed from the DHS’s website.Guards at a priv...

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1 week ago To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou

The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homesHousing costs across Europe have become a growing burden for many households, both for those trying to buy and those trying to rent. Over the past decade, property prices have surged faster than incomes in many European countries. The same is true for rents, which have increased exponentially in large cities but have also increased substantially in suburban areas and smaller university towns.Given how much housing costs affect Europeans’ quality of life, it is comparatively absent from the agenda of progressive political parties. When politicians do emphasise housing, the focus is usually solely on building more houses. Former German chancellor Olaf Scholz, for example, promised to build 400,000 new homes in Germany every year – a goal his government failed to reach by some distance. At the same time, far-right parties such as the Freedom party (PVV) in the Netherlands or Chega in Portug...

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1 week ago Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling the rise of the far right. Our research shows how to address it | Tarik Abou

The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homesReport: European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchersHousing costs across Europe have become a growing burden for many households, both for those trying to buy and those trying to rent. Over the past decade, property prices have surged faster than incomes in many European countries. The same is true for rents, which have increased exponentially in large cities but have also increased substantially in suburban areas and smaller university towns.Given how much housing costs affect Europeans’ quality of life, it is comparatively absent from the agenda of progressive political parties. When politicians do emphasise housing, the focus is usually solely on building more houses. Former German chancellor Olaf Scholz, for example, promised to build 400,000 new homes in Germany every year – a goal his government failed to reach by some distance. At the same ti...

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2 w. ago DWP announces 'major' reassessments of Carers' Allowance following benefit 'mess'

The DWP has announced major reassessments following an official review which concluded that hundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers were left with huge debts due to government failure

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves warned against ‘dire’ cuts to Motability in Budget by over 40 disability charities

Exclusive: Reeves told that cuts would ‘betray disabled people and steal our independence’

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2 w. ago DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal

Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak outThe carer’s allowance scandal – a timelineHundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after a damning official review concluded they had been left with huge debts because of government failure and maladministration.The review, due to be published on Tuesday, was triggered after a year-long Guardian investigation revealed how carers had been hit with draconian penalties of as much as £20,000 relating to carer’s allowance. Some were plunged into hardship, others were jailed. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care

Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central governmentMore than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian.The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children’s services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care. Continue reading...

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