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UK Independent Mechanism: Additional information for the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to inform its inquiry review into the UK

The United Kingdom Independent Mechanism (UKIM) is made up of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI), the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) and the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC), jointly designated under Article 33.2 of the UN CRPD.

In August 2023 we produced a report that indicated that little progress had been made to implement the Committee’s recommendations from its inquiry into the UK, which found ‘grave and systematic’ violations of the Convention.

This letter provides further information in response to questions asked by the Committee during its session in August 2023, and key updates since that time.