UN: 'Grave' disability rights violations under UK reforms
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UK welfare reforms have led to "grave and systematic violations" of disabled people's rights, a UN inquiry has said.
Changes to benefits "disproportionately affected" disabled people, the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled Persons (CRPD) found.
The UK was the first to be investigated under a UN convention it has been signed up to since 2007.
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