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Koldo Casla, Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School, University of Essex

The UK’s social security system falls way below international human rights standards: new report

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The right to social security is enshrined in several international agreements on human rights. But the UK’s system – even before the disability benefits cuts announced earlier this year – falls way below these standards.

For a new report published today, Amnesty International asked my colleague Lyle Barker and me to review the evidence about the state of the UK’s social security in relation to international human rights law.

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