The UN will visit the UK to investigate whether recent welfare reforms by the British government have caused “grave or systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights, “ reports The Independent.
Sources at a leading charity in the UK reported that they had been contacted by the UN committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of an investigation into human rights abuses against disabled people in the UK.
The committee also advised the British government that a Special Rapporteur will be sent to the UK as part of their probe.
The British Director of Policy Bill Scott said,
“The UN have notifies us they will be visiting Britain to investigate, and want to meet with us when they come, sometime in the next few months.”
The Department for Work and Pensions battled for months against disability charities and campaigners in order to not release the numbers of people that had died within 6 weeks of being declared fit to work by the British government between 2011 and 2014. Last week the department revealed that 2,380 people had died within six weeks of being declared fit to work.