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Human Rights Weekly News: 12 November 2021
12 November 2021
BIHR’s round-up of the week’s top human rights news, from BIHR and beyond…
News from BIHR
1. Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) Decisions: BIHR is supporting the campaign led by the Stop People Dying Too Young group.
Alongside our friends at Inclusion North, Learning Disability England, Difference North East, BIHR are supporting the Stop People Dying Too Young group’s campaign to the UK Government about their actions on DNARs.
The Stop People Dying Too Young group is made up of self advocates and family carers working in the North East on Leder – the learning from lives and death programme. The group represents the interests of people with a learning disability, autistic people, and families; it is supported by Inclusion North. Find out more about the group here.
The campaign is asking the Ministerial Oversight Group on Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation to involve people with lived experience in their…