T he Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation is the first comprehensive history of the disabled community`s ongoing struggle for civil rights. Co-authors Doris Zames Fleischer, a ...

On Monday, we will celebrate the life and work of one of the most well-known and influential leaders of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders of the ...

Adapt is an national advocacy group that focuses on accessible transportation and integrated support services for Americans with disabilities. It is the theme of a rare photography exhibit that dates ...

Childhood -- Institutions, part 1 -- Discrimination, part 1 -- Institutions, part 2 -- The University of Illinois -- Discrimination, part 2, and early advocacy -- The parents' movement -- Activists ...

Harvard researcher Ari Ne'eman says the policy shifts underway under the Trump administration pose a unique threat to people with disabilities,... When Ari Ne'eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call ...

(New York) – Mariana Lozano, a young activist from Colombia, is the 2023 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Leadership in Disability Rights, Human Rights Watch announced ...

To the editor: The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act did truly help those with disabilities (“The Americans With Disabilities Act changed my life. Now my generation needs to fight for it,” July 26) ...

The disabilities affect everyday living and most often continue throughout life because they impair the physical body, learning, language and/or one’s behavior ...

2 December 2024 - Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Tuesday, UN Secretary General António Guterres emphasised the crucial need to increase the leadership of persons with ...

On the day after the Fourth of July in 1978, a group of young disabled people blocked two city buses at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Denver – to declare their right to live ...

In recent years, global platforms such as the Global Disability Summit (GDS) have become critical avenues for advancing disability rights, especially for marginalised groups within the disability ...

Zona Roberts, recognized as the “grandmother of the disability rights movement” has died at the age of 104. Described as “the embodiment of fierce love” by Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda, the executive ...