{"id":177126,"date":"2015-08-31T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=177126"},"modified":"2015-08-31T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:27:42","slug":"un-probe-disability-deaths-uk-govt-benefit-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/un-probe-disability-deaths-uk-govt-benefit-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018UN to probe disability deaths over UK govt. benefit cuts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United Nations is set to launch an inquiry into whether the UK government\u2019s welfare cuts led to rights abuses and death of more than 2,000 disabled Britons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UN officials will visit the UK in the next few months to investigate whether Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith\u2019s welfare reforms have led to \u201cgrave or systematic violations\u201d of disabled people\u2019s human rights, the Sunday Herald has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Department of Work and Pensions revealed last week that 2,380 people have died within six weeks of being declared \u2018fit to work\u2019 by the government between 2011 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A formal inquiry has already been launched by the UN\u2019s Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Herald added.<\/p>\n<p>UN investigations are conducted confidentially, but a leading Scottish disability charity group has told the Sunday Herald it has been advised a visit by the Special Rapporteur and members of the committee on the rights of persons with disabilities is expected in the \u201cnear future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/31\/427131\/UN-probe-UK-disabled-deaths\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations is set to launch an inquiry into whether the UK government\u2019s welfare cuts led to rights abuses and death of more than 2,000 disabled Britons. UN officials will visit the UK in the next few months to investigate whether Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith\u2019s welfare reforms have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}