- Action on Hearing Loss: Coronavirus information
- Age UK: A message from our CEO
- Age UK, Independent Age, Anchor Hanover, Commissioner for Older People in Wales, Age Cymru, Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland, Care Scotland, Age Northern Ireland, Age Scotland: Treatment rights of older people during this pandemic
- Amnesty International UK: Coronavirus – the effect on human rights
- British Institute of Human Rights: Human rights implications of the Coronavirus Bill
- Charitysowhite: Racial injustice in the Covid-19 response
- Child Poverty Action Group: Supporting families during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Chris Hatton, Centre for Disability Research: Recording and analysing Covid-19 related deaths amongst people getting social care and disabled people – what should be possible in England?
- Citizens Advice: Helping people through the Covid-19 pandemic
- Disability Rights UK: Disability Rights UK CEO writes to Disability and Care Ministers
- End Violence Against Women coalition: Joint statement from VAWG sector on Covid-19
- End Violence Against Women coalition: Initial briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic and the duty to prevent violence against women and girls
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: Equality and human rights considerations in access to food and essentials
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: Our response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: Human rights and equality considerations in responding to the coronavirus pandemic
- European Committee of Social Rights: The right to protection of health in times of pandemic
- Fawcett Society: Coronavirus – campaigning for women’s visibility in UK response
- Friends Families and Travellers: Covid-19 and guidance for supporting people living on traveller sites, unauthorised encampments and canal boats
- Humanists UK: Community Response
- Inclusion London: Coronavirus Bill could leave thousands of Disabled people without support
- The Inter Faith Network: Covid-19 member faith community organisations’ guidance
- Joint Committee on Human Rights: The health protection (coronavirus, restrictions) (England) regulations 2020 and the lockdown restrictions
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants: Covid-19: Briefing to the Home Affairs Committee (pdf)
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants: Protecting families at risk due to Covid-19 – joint letter to the Home Secretary
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Coronavirus update from JRF
- Law Centres Network: Statement on law centres’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic
- The Law Society: Law Society president’s statement on coronavirus (Covid-19)
- LGBT Consortium: Coronavirus updates
- Liberty:Coronavirus Bill – Liberty responds to ‘drastic reimagining of state powers’
- Local and national government and professionals working with children and families: Ensuring that children and families are safe and supported during the CV-19 pandemic
- Maternity Action: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and rights at work during pregnancy
- Maternity Action: Letter to Rishi Sunak – End unfair treatment of pregnant women and new mothers in Covid support schemes
- Mind: Mind responds to changes to the Mental Health Act in emergency Covid-19 legislation
- National Aids Trust: HIV and coronavirus (Covid-19)
- Refugee Council: Response to the Covid-19 emergency
- Royal National Institute of the Blind: Covid-19 – five ways RNIB services can help
- Runnymede Trust: Coronavirus will increase race inequalities
- Scottish Human Rights Commission: Briefing – Covid-19 emergency legislation Scotland (docx)
- Scottish Human Rights Commission: Covid-19 guidance – clinical advice (pdf)
- Scottish Independent Living Coalition of Disabled People’s Organisations: Disabled people’s human rights to life and health under threat
- Stonewall: Covid-19 – how LGBT-inclusive organisations can help
- Scope: Scope response to coronavirus crisis
- Trades Union Congress: Protecting workers’ jobs and livelihoods
- Traveller Movement: The needs and rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
- Unison: Covid-19 school closures
- Women’s Budget Group: Covid-19 – gender and other equality issues
- Women’s Budget Group: Crises collide – women and Covid-19
- Women’s Resource Centre: An open letter to the Prime Minister
- Young Women’s Trust: A statement from Young Women’s Trust in response to the coronavirus
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Update for December
Our dedicated telephone helpline for people with physical disabilities (and their friends and family) is still very much open – and we are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely. Our main priority is to provide a Read more…