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“Group demands better maternity care for disabled women”

By winvisibleblog | 06/04/2025 | 0 Comments

Black and white photo of a standing woman's middle. She is holding a baby to her above her belly which has the pregnancy line. News: North London group demands better maternity care for disabled women.

Shared from North West Londoner 5 April 2025 by Grace Wiszowaty “A Camden-based organisation are calling for North Central London NHS services to combat discrimination within maternity care. WinVisible’s campaign comes in light of a report published by The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The Missing Billion on 6 March, which found … Read more

Day of Action publicity — Welfare Not Warfare!

By winvisibleblog | 31/03/2025 | 0 Comments

Photo of our contingent: WinVisible, Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign, Global Women’s Strike, marching along Parliament Square (UK Day of Action, Welfare Not Warfare, 26 March).

Thanks to everyone on our contingent for the Day of Action on Wednesday 26 March! It was so encouraging to be with everyone who came out. We’re sharing some of the widespread publicity — which shows the growing refusal of the government’s plans for terrible disability benefit cuts, while they are hiking up spending on … Read more

‘Disability cuts will lead to deaths’ — Camden New Journal

By winvisibleblog | 29/03/2025 | 0 Comments

Image of Camden New Journal page. Disability cuts 'will lead to deaths'. Photo of three women on the newspaper page. Text in blog post.

by Frankie Lister-Fell Credit: Camden New Journal Thursday 27 March, page 6 “People are going to die” as a result of the disability benefit cuts, a Camden-based disabled rights group warned this week. Hundreds of people turned up outside No.10 yesterday (Wednesday 26 March) to throw bouncy balls at the big iron gates outside the … Read more

Channel 4 News: disabled mums speak out about discrimination in pregnancy and childbirth

By winvisibleblog | 08/03/2025 | 0 Comments

We were glad to work with Channel 4 News for a report on 5 March 2025, where disabled mums Rameeza Mehmud (from WinVisible), Rupy Kaur Roberts, Carly Tait and Marie Tidball MP, spoke out about discrimination in pregnancy and childbirth. Watch the video here (captions). Marie Tidball MP, who describes upsetting treatment before her daughter … Read more

Watch Channel 4 News — Wed 5 March 7pm

By winvisibleblog | 04/03/2025 | 0 Comments

Orange banner with white writing. Disabled Mothers' Rights Campaign -- to have and keep our kids. Drawing based on the wheelchair user symbol. A mum using a wheelchair lifts her baby up to her face. They are looking at each other.

Tomorrow night Wednesday 5 March we’re expecting Channel 4 News to run an important report featuring interviews with disabled mums, that we’ve been working on together. More info to follow — watch this space! #IWD2025

Urgent message re: female childhood abuse survivors on disability benefits

By winvisibleblog | 24/02/2025 | 0 Comments

Placard with image of a red hand -- Hands off "substantial risk to health" protection for claimants -- WinVisible

Dear WinVisible, “I’m writing to ask for your help, as a disabled survivor of extreme, life threatening and sadistically violent childhood abuse that lasted from my birth until I ran away at 16. I have not and will never recover from this or the Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that is the result, so I’m in receipt … Read more

At last, DWP to pay UC claimants who lost out

By winvisibleblog | 15/02/2025 | 0 Comments

Supporters of the legal challenge against Universal Credit and loss of severe disability premiums outside the High Court.

On Wednesday 12 February, DWP manager* Neil Couling was questioned by MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee, about payments to sick and disabled former ESA claimants who had to claim Universal Credit early because of moving borough, and so lost their severe disability premiums. Watch the session here, this comes up at around 10am. … Read more

Event PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN — Stories of Disability and Rehabilitation

By winvisibleblog | 08/02/2025 | 0 Comments

Artwork by Basil Marquosi. Brush strokes in grey, black and white depict the rubble in Gaza and suggest bodies.

We’re glad to attend and share this event highlighting disability — one of a series about Palestine at the P21 art gallery in Somers Town, London NW1. We want to find out more about the situation of disabled people there, especially children and women, and what they want supporters to do. Hope you can come … Read more

Stop DWP snooping on bank accounts — again

By winvisibleblog | 04/02/2025 | 0 Comments

Houses of Parliament in the distance, people hold a large sign: 228,283 say Stop the government spying on all of our bank accounts. Next to them are two WinVisible women holding placards. DWP stop snooping. Being poor is not a crime. Stop all benefit cuts and sanctions. One is a wheelchair user, the other woman is standing with her little dog.

Together with Big Brother Watch and a coalition of concerned organisations and human rights groups, we oppose the powers in Labour’s Fraud Bill for computers to monitor the bank accounts of all claimants getting certain benefits, to stop people’s benefits and recover money. Being poor is not a crime! On Monday 3 February, some of … Read more

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