Date Type 08/04/2016 JAL 12/04/2016 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply GBR 1/2016 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Adequate housing; Disability; Extreme poverty; Food; Alleged negative impact of the Welfare Reform and Work Act on the human rights 14/07/2016 of persons living in poverty, particularly children, large families, single parents and persons with disabilities. According to the information received, the Welfare Reform and Work Act, enacted in March 2016, introduces major cuts in social benefits, including, inter alia, a lower cap on the household benefit, a four-year freeze on working-age benefits and tax credits, restrictions on child tax credits and reduced support for persons with disabilities in the Work-Related Activity Group. Concerns are raised that these changes have been introduced without adequate assessments of their impact on the rights to social protection and an adequate standard of living, and may contribute to a rise in poverty and inequality. RUS 3/2016 Russian Federation Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of repeated harassment and attacks on a human rights organization and 23/05/2016 several human rights defenders and journalists. According to the information received, on 9 March 2016, masked men physically attacked and set fire to the bus carrying Ms. Ekaterina Vanslova and Mr. Ivan Zhiltsov, two members of the Committee of Prevention of Torture, Mr. Egor Skovoroda, Ms. Alexandrina Elagina, Mr. Mikhail Solunin, Mr. Anton Prusakov, Ms. Lena Maria Persson Loefgren and Mr. Oeystein Windstad, all journalists, and its driver Mr. Bashir Pliev, as they travelled from Ingushetia to Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya on a press tour organized by the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), a human rights organization. The same day, armed and masked men broke into the office of JMG in Karabulak, Ingushetia. On 16 March 2016, Mr. Igor Kalyapin, Head of JMG and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, was about to attend a press conference in Grozny when a group of masked men physically assaulted him. JMG has reportedly also experienced break-ins and violent attacks in the past. Mr. Kalyapin was the subject of three previous communications sent on 22 December 2014, see A/HRC/ 29/50, case RUS 10/2014, 29 February 2012, see A/HRC/20/30 case RUS 1/2012, and 31 March 2014, see A/HRC/27/72 case RUS 4/2014. A/HRC/33/32 39