{"id":1465,"date":"2016-10-20T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:41:33","slug":"austerity-policies-breach-the-uks-human-rights-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/20\/austerity-policies-breach-the-uks-human-rights-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity policies breach the UK\u2019s human rights obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UK\u00a0 <\/strong>After an eight month investigation the United Nations announced that the Conservatives\u2019 austerity policies breach international human rights obligations. \u00a0Since the 2010 cuts they have had \u201ca disproportionate adverse impact\u201d on the most marginalised and disadvantaged: children, disabled people and low-income families.<\/p>\n<p>Also highlighted is the UK\u2019s \u201cexceptionally high levels of homelessness\u201d, food banks and persistent inequality \u2013 embedded by tax policies, including VAT rises combined with reductions in inheritance and corporation tax.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that the new national living wage is not enough to ensure a decent standard of living . That is likely to be even worse for women, who are more likely to be stuck on zero-hours contracts, and young people under-25, who are excluded from the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">UK\u00a0 After an eight month investigation the United Nations announced that the Conservatives\u2019 austerity policies breach international human rights obligations. \u00a0Since the 2010 cuts they have had \u201ca disproportionate adverse impact\u201d on the most marginalised <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/20\/austerity-policies-breach-the-uks-human-rights-obligations\/\" title=\"Austerity policies breach the UK\u2019s human rights obligations\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,4],"tags":[957,960,958,959],"class_list":{"0":"post-1465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-austerity","11":"tag-breach","12":"tag-national-living-wage","13":"tag-united-nations","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}