The Right to Work: Right to Welfare (R2W) Group have been active since the summer of 2012, when a group of experienced PPR activists began
organising with people who were out of work and on benefits at the Social
Security office in Corporation Street, Belfast.
Against the backdrop of rising unemployment and the most radical reshaping
of our welfare system in its history, the R2W group identified social
security sanctions and job creation among the most pressing human rights
issues with regard to the right to work and the right to welfare.
Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) organisation is a human rights
organisation which supports groups like R2W to use human rights to
challenge and change current government decision making practices which
exclude them, and which lead to poor service delivery, entrenched
inequalities and ineffective use of public money.
