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Kriti Sharma
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Associate Director, Human Rights Watch

Global human rights researcher & advocate | Pronouns: she/her #BreakTheChains
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MPs will soon give their final vote on the UC & PIP bill - we've joined over other 20 organisations to raise our concerns.

Over 700,000 seriously ill and disabled people will lose £3000/year on average.

Government must drop these cuts.

Read the full briefing👇

www.ucpipbill.co.uk
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - Joint briefing ahead of Committee and Remaining Stages
On Wednesday 9th July, MPs will be asked to vote on amendments to the UC & PIP Bill. This briefing from over twenty organisations including Scope, the Disability Benefits Consortium, Citizens Advice, ...
www.ucpipbill.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has also flagged its concerns in writing to the UK government. Written up here by @peterwalker99.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UN panel outs UK government on the spot over welfare bill
Committee says it has ‘credible information’ about negative impact of the legislation on disabled people
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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As the #UCBill (without PIP) returns to UK Parliament for its third (and final?) reading, my post for @hrw.org

www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

The watered-down version of the Bill will still negatively affect many with disabilities and long term health conditions. The government should scrap it.
Revised UK Social Security Bill Still Harms Rights
The UK government’s draft law to cut spending on disability-related social security triggered major opposition from within the ruling party, forcing the government to roll back some of the legislation...
www.hrw.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Marie Tidball MP’s powerful speech shows the growing resistance, in Parliament & the country, to the Govt’s attack on disabled people.

They forced this Bill through with unwritten promises of improvement.

The reality remains: cuts for people who are ill are still on the table.
July 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Our new @hrw piece on how a good EU law on the rights of people affected by corporate abuse in global supply chains is being gutted - and how EU member states want to replace it with window-dressing:

www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
EU Council Turning Supply Chain Law into Window Dressing
European Union member states led by France and Germany are walking back on their commitment to protect human rights and the environment in global supply chains.
www.hrw.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Today, the UK government will ask MPs to railroad through social security legislation that makes cuts to disability-related benefits to the next stage.

@hrw.org joins 80+ other orgs asking MPs to reject the UCPIP Bill. It is bad news for human rights.

www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill Monday 30th June 2025 We are coming together as organisations committed to fighting poverty, providing advice, and supporting and championing the rights of disabled people, their families, and carers. We stand firmly with disabled people and their organisations in calling for the UK government to withdraw the UC & PIP Bill and to undertake genuine dialogue with disabled people to shape reforms centred on the rights and dignity that all disabled people need and deserve. At a time when the share of GDP spent on working-age social security has remained stable for the last ten years, cutting the incomes of disabled people is a political choice. There is time for the government to pursue alternatives. If this Bill is voted through, then by 2030 it will have cut PIP for more than 400,000 disabled people and Universal Credit for more than 700,000 people who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. These numbers will only increase in the years to follow. This Bill has also been brought before parliament: • Without consultation with disabled people • Without any assessment of its impact on health and employment outcomes • Before the planned review of the PIP assessment has properly begun its work • Without knowing how the outcome of the PIP review may affect these reforms The changes announced last week and the compressed timetable for scrutiny mean that MPs will only have a single day to debate or amend the new provisions. There is too much at stake for disabled people for this Bill to be rushed through without the opportunity for meaningful challenge or scrutiny. We urge all MPs to vote against this Bill at Second Reading. Signatories Acts 435 Action for Children Amnesty International British Association of Social Workers Camphill Village Trust Centre for Mental Health Child Poverty Action Group Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition Children First Citizens Advice Community Money Advice Crisis Cystic Fibrosis Trust Debt Justice Diabetes UK Disability Benefits Consortium Disability Law Service Disabled People Against Cuts End Child Poverty Coalition Endometriosis UK Engender Fuel Poverty Action Home Start Human Rights Watch Huntington's Disease Association Imagine Act and Succeed In Kind Direct Independent Age Independent Food Aid Network Joseph Rowntree Foundation Kidney Care Learning Disability Allies Leonard Cheshire ME Foggy Dog Mental Health Foundation Mental Health UK Mind Money and Mental Health Policy Institute MS Society National Autistic Society National Children's Bureau National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society National Survivor User Network Neuroendocrine Cancer UK New Economics Foundation Oxfam Parkinson's UK Quaker Social Action Rethink Mental Illness Royal National Institute of Blind People Royal National Institute of Deaf People SeeAbility Scope Sense Shelter Sisters of Frida St Mungo's Stripy Lightbulb CIC The Children's Society The Food Foundation The Poverty Alliance The Salvation Army Trussell Turn2Us Turning Point Versus Arthritis Voluntary Organisations Disability Group We Care Campaign Whizz Kidz Women's Budget Group Young Lives vs Cancer Z2K 4 in 10 Black Country Foodbank Citizens Advice Scotland Close the Gap Food Plymouth Hartlepool Foodbank Includem North East Child Poverty Commission One Parent Families Scotland Parenting Across Scotland Scottish Women's Budget Group Shelter Scotland Stay Safe East The Scottish Pantry Network
July 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM