19 Jul 2013

Srebrenica 12 July 1995

12 July was the 18th anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica and Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech about it was in the news.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which is a United Nations court of law, has a brief history of the Bosnia and Herzegovina conflict of 1992-1995, which says:

The single worst atrocity of the war occurred in the summer of 1995 when the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a UN-declared safe area, came under attack by forces lead by the Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić. During a few days in early July, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed by Serb forces in an act of genocide. The rest of the town’s women and children were driven out.


9 Jul 2013

Radio 4 Money Box

Click on this link to listen to me on Radio 4's  Money Box on Sat 8 June talking about Personal Independence Payment  My bit starts at 14:50 minutes in to the 30 minute programme and ends at 18:08. 

Click on this link to listen to me on Radio 4's  Money Box Live on Wed 19 Jun 2013 on Disability and Carers' Benefits - duration: 30 minutes:
Jean French, Head of Advice and Information. Carers UK
Derek Sinclair, Welfare Rights Advisor, Contact a Family
Robbie Spence, Advisor, Disability Rights UK
Presenter: Paul Lewis

Producer: Diane Richardson

And this is a link to the Disability Rights UK news page on the above.