“People ask #WheresTom after a Tory minister [Tom Purslove] no-shows a UN meeting on disabled people’s rights”

via @thecanaryuk

“The #Tory government failed to attend a meeting of the United Nations (UN) regarding its treatment of chronically ill, deaf, and disabled people. So, those affected have been asking #WheresTom in response to the absence of the minister responsible for their rights.

However, unlike their ministers, campaign groups did attend the #UNCRPD (UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) meeting in Geneva. They laid out damning evidence showing that somehow, things have gotten worse in the #UK for chronically ill, deaf, and disabled people since a previous UN report accused successive Tory governments of human rights abuses.”

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“The absence of the Tories at the UNCRPD meeting is hardly surprising. It is their willful neglect, disregard, and lack of care that led to the failures in the 2016 UNCRPD report. Their entrenched contempt for chronically ill, deaf, and disabled people now looks set to lead to an even worse report this time.”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/29/uncrpd-uk-disabled-people-give-evidence/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

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