Rejected petition Scrap all austerity measures that breach international human rights

In a damning report the UN has claimed austerity policies and welfare reform breach the UK’s international human rights obligations, disproportionately affecting the poor, women, young people, ethnic minorities and disabled people and favouring the rich.

This is unacceptable

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News articles:

http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/news/uk-in-breachhuman-rights/00287.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/austerity-government-policy-conservatives-poor-food-banks-inequality-un-a7110066.html

A copy of the report can be found here:

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=1059&Lang=en

This petition was rejected

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Date submitted 6 July 2016
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