Grenfell Residents’ Rights Were Breached

The human rights of Grenfell Tower residents were breached by the council and central government before the disaster that killed 72 people, according to a hard-hitting report by the government’s own equalities watchdog. Residents’ rights to life and adequate housing were contravened before the fire, including by allowing the use of combustible cladding and allocating flats high in the building to elderly and disabled people, many of whom died.  The Equality and Human Rights Commission said “the state either knew, or ought to have known, of the real and immediate risk to life posed by the cladding on Grenfell Tower”, that regulation had failed and that it had also failed to tell residents about the dangers they faced. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/13/grenfell-residents-rights-were-breached-equalities-watchdog