UN experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on Tuesday cautioned that a pending amendment to Peru's General Law on Persons with Disabilities risks ...

The City Hall led by Mayor Rocío Adame Muñoz of Rosarito hosted the conference “Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities” through the Disability Commission of Playas de Rosarito for cabinet members ...

Despite international recognition of the human rights of persons with disabilities, they still suffer widespread discrimination. The Commissioner’s approach advocates a shift towards rights-based, ...

Standards bodies, access to information technology, and human rights / Judy Brewer -- Accessible ICTs and the opening of political space for persons with disabilities / Janet E. Lord -- Web ...

A new report says 80% of disabled state workers have considered quitting because of difficulties receiving accommodations. The list of grievances including extreme wait times of more than a year, ...

I am thrilled to be here today to share a piece of my story and discuss how support for people with disabilities can be structured to enable meaningful participation in society, including the job ...

Sitting in a dusty courtyard of the Holy Ghost Coptic Church in Kisumu city, in western Kenya, I heard Paul (a pseudonym), approaching before I saw him. Clink. Clink. Clink. The sound of a human being ...

Over 100,000 children are currently trapped in Ukrainian institutions. They’ve been subject to even more rights abuses since Russia attacked Ukraine. From an early age, Eric Rosenthal was passionate ...

GENEVA (AP) — A team of human rights experts has faulted the world’s nations for not doing more to ensure minimum protections of people with disabilities in Gaza, whose numbers have been growing since ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has entered into an agreement with the State of Iowa to enforce federal disability rights laws. The agreement was spurred by an ...

The focus of this contribution is on how rights protection officers (RPOs) experience supporting parents with intellectual disabilities involved in child protection investigations. We situate the role ...

Arrington, C. L., and Moon, Y. I. (2019) “Cause Lawyering and Movement Tactics: Disability Rights Movements in South Korea and Japan”. Law & Policy, 42(1), 5–30 ...