SubscriptionsCategory: Rights
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How the Government Forces Disabled People into Poverty and Despair
The Department for Work and Pensions uses private firms to deny assistance to vulnerable people, many of whom overturn the decision on appeal, reports Chaminda Jayanetti
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Conversion Therapy: Co-opting the Language of Liberation
With the UK Government consultation into ending conversion therapy closing on 4 February, Byline Times investigates the tactics of those seeking to frustrate a ban
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How the TfL Funding Crisis Will Leave Disabled People Stranded
As Government funding for London’s transport network dries up, so do promised improvements to access – with just 33% of the Underground step-free
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UK’s Record on LGBTIQ Rights Under Fire Alongside Russia, Hungary and Poland
A new report from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe takes aim at hate speech, vilification and scapegoating of LGBTI people in the UK
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‘Keep Watch Over Us’ – A Plea from the Women Abandoned in Afghanistan
Meet eight Afghan women still fighting for their rights in face of Taliban repression. Interviews and photos by Angelo Calianno
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The Killing Fields: Further Details of China’s Uyghur Concentration Camps Emerge
As China mounts the Winter Olympics, CJ Werleman considers the weight of evidence that exists about the Chinese Communist Party’s abuses in Xinjiang
