@Hephaestus7 Samuel Miller @MidWalesMike @suejone02063672 See my letter to High Commissioner, Navi Pillay, below. I included your superb article in my letter, Sue. Subject: There is an urgent need for a UN investigation into the United Kingdoms benefit-sanctioning regime Samuel Miller Attachments3:58 PM (1 minute ago) to registry, Jorge, srfood, srhousing, srextremepover., urgent-action, crpd, CP High Commissioner Navi Pillay Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. Dear Ms. Pillay, I am a 57-year-old Disability Studies specialist and disability activist from Montreal, Canada who has been communicating frequently and voluntarily, since January 2012, to senior United Nations officials, on the welfare crisis for the United Kingdoms sick and disabled. (See attached, and the following: twitlonger/show/n_1rp0uui, twitlonger/show/n_1rtnc63, twitlonger/show/n_1rtvfk5). It is my understanding that a 22-page letter, pointing out that cuts to social security benefits introduced by Iain Duncan Smith and enforced by his Department for Work and Pensions on behalf of the Coalition government may constitute a breach of the UK’s international treaty obligations to the poor, will also be discussed at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in New York, in September. It is signed by Raquel Rolnik, the former UN special rapporteur on adequate housing; Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, the former UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty; and Olivier De Schutter, the former UN special rapporteur on the right to food. Could you please add, as an addendum to that letter, my partial bibliography on Britains benefit-sanctioning regime, which is attached below in PDF format. My views can be found on page two; I am extremely concerned about the British governments soaring use of benefit sanctions, and the evidence from MPs and the Work & Pensions Committee, which provides oversight of the Department for Work and Pensions, is especially compelling and strongly suggests that the government is stitching-up benefit claimants and is involved in a cover-up of that fact. The refusal of the government to agree to the Work & Pensions Committees request for an independent inquiry into this matter only compounds suspicion. In closing, I would be most appreciative if the Human Rights Council and the OHCHR would and open an investigation into this matter. This article ( kittysjones.wordpress/2014/08/16/uk-becomes-the-first-country-to-face-a-un-inquiry-into-disability-rights-violations/) is very worthy of your—and their—attention, as well. I wish to congratulate you on your tenure as High Commissioner, and wish you every success in your future endeavors. Warm regards Samuel Miller -- Samuel Miller diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/a-last-plea-for-unified-shadow-uncrpd.html independent.academia.edu/SamuelMiller huffingtonpost.co.uk/dom-aversano/iain-duncan-smith-mortality-statistics_b_4301535.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics echo-news.co.uk/news/10634947.My_bedroom_tax_fight_goes_to_UN/?commentSort=score independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/it-all-adds-up-work-and-pensions-press-officers-sent-on-statistics-course-8706145.html you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/letter-to-the-icc-at-the-hague-re-mistreatment-of-the-disabled-and-sick mikesivier.wordpress/?s=Samuel+Miller&search=Go liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-man-left-malnutrition-after-7355139 mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mark-wood-starved-death-3194250 youtube/watch?v=VnHBfW0_u5A&feature=youtu.be youtube/watch?v=LQ5ypmTtL_s&feature=player_embedded E-Mail: disabilityinliterature@gmail Blog: Hephaestus: Disability Studies illnessandcivilization.blogspot/ Blog: My Disability Studies Blackboard mydisabilitystudiesblackboard.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pushed-over-edge-by-benefits-fear.html Twitter: twitter/#!/Hephaestus7 (Montreal, Canada) TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter twitlonger TwitLonger is the easy way to post more than 140 characters to Twitter
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