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Fury as 400,000 disabled people could face poverty under benefit reform plan
11 Apr 2025 10:03 GMT
… for human rights. The letter – signed by 21 major organisations including Disability Rights … warns: “This completely undermines disabled people’s rights to participate … needs of disabled people. Responding to a parliamentary question, disability minister …
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Case cannot be decided without recording statements of mentally disabled victims: LHC
11 Apr 2025 04:12 GMT
… mentally disabled victims: LHC
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The court stated that in principle, disability … mentally and physically disabled people. In 1948, the International Human Rights Organization issued … to their condition. In principle, disability should not be an obstacle …
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Complaints Pile Up at NYC Human Rights Commission — And Immigrant Workers Are Paying the Price
10 Apr 2025 17:04 GMT
… New York City Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is responsible for protecting … for enforcing the city’s Human Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination in … , religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or immigration status.
CCHR’s …
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Human Rights Watch: Incendiary bombs kill, burn civilians in South Sudan
10 Apr 2025 12:48 GMT
… in Upper Nile state, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. … , South Sudan researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The government should … and lifelong scarring and disability, which can result in … civilians from unlawful violence, Human Rights Watch said. The council …
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Full text: Human Rights in Xizang in the New Era
10 Apr 2025 10:12 GMT
… of the Chinese path of human rights protection. Human rights are not exclusive privileges … , the elderly, and people with disabilities. It has continued to improve … been provided for 2,604 disabled students. The enrollment rate of …
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Opinion: Alberta should support people with disabilities in overcoming barriers to working
10 Apr 2025 21:41 GMT
… program for people with disabilities, the Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP). … Human Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against people with disabilities. … available to disabled people, the crisis of disability unemployment will …
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Pennsylvania Federal Court Follows State Ruling That Medical Marijuana Use Is Not a Disability Under State Law
10 Apr 2025 21:25 GMT
… Community College (HACC) v. Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission, which held the PHRA … on a “non-job related handicap or disability” if the employee could … in Pennsylvania have allowed PHRA disability discrimination claims involving medical marijuana …
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EU renews push for gender equality, disability inclusion in PH
10 Apr 2025 15:11 GMT
… from organizations of persons with disabilities (PWDs), civil society groups, and … of gender and disability. Speakers from the Commission on Human Rights, the National … Council on Disability Affairs, and advocacy …
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CTUSAB raises concern about lack of quotas in Disability Rights Act
10 Apr 2025 14:58 GMT
… persons who suffer with a disability.”
De Peiza warned that … of persons with a disability availing themselves of the … impairs equal enjoyment of human rights—De Peiza argued that … reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities,” he said.
“It would …
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Disability rights: FG, stakeholders hail EU, decry USAID funding cut
10 Apr 2025 10:29 GMT
… National Commission for Persons with Disabilities, Ayuba Burki, described the … by civil society organisations and human rights organisations within and outside Nigeria … 10 Nigerians.
“Unfortunately, persons with disability are among the most vulnerable …