The UK government’s austerity policies violate international human rights, and growing inequality in the nation is cause for “serious concerns,” a damning new report by the United Nations has found.
The UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights found that six years after the Conservative party took power and extended the previous Coalition’s stringent economic practices, UK residents have faced an increased reliance on food banks, rising unemployment rates, a housing crisis, and growing racism and discrimination, among other impacts.
Women, minorities, young people, and people with disabilities were disproportionately affected, the authors said.
The UK government is failing “to meet their obligation to mobilize the maximum available resources for the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights,” the report states in the UN’s first review of the Conservative party’s impact since it came to power in 2009.
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