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Disability rights

18 March 2019

  • Young man sitting next to young woman in wheel chair

    The taboos around disability and sex put limits on everyone, disabled or not

    Aly Fixter
    Not only do they deny disabled people their right to a fulfilling sex life, they perpetuate rigid norms for the rest, says health and sexuality writer Aly Fixter

9 March 2017

  • A two-year investigation by Disability Rights International into the state of facilities for people with disabilities in Mexico City found residents were sexually abused, locked in cages, left permanently in cribs, and overall detained in “dehumanising conditions”.

    Mexican government accused of torture at disabled care home

    In a landmark legal case against the government, an NGO is fighting for disabled people’s right to live in their communities, rather than institutions

13 February 2017

  • Los Perejiles

    'My dream is to make pizza': the caterers with Down's syndrome – video

    After years of facing social and work-related discrimination, four friends with Down’s syndrome started their own pizza company in Buenos Aires in 2016. Los Perejiles now has 24 employees and caters for parties across the Argentine capital, supporting people with Down’s syndrome to overcome social stigma

30 December 2016

  • Syrian refugees in frosty field

    Our favourite global development stories of 2016

    From refugees to aid worker safety, leaving no one behind to localising aid, it’s been a busy year for humanitarians and development folk. Catch up our coverage

18 July 2016

  • The funeral of Jesula Gelin, Vanessa Previl and Monique Vincent.

    Murder of three deaf women in Haiti must be a starting point for change

    The violent killings have brought the country’s disability rights, women’s rights and human rights campaigners together to demand action

14 July 2016

  • Helen Hunt and John Hawkes lying in bed in a scene from The Sessions

    Let's take the initiative to start a sexual revolution for people with disabilities

    Servaas Kamerling
    We need to push the boundaries and create new role models to push the barriers of acceptance and normality around disability and sex

11 July 2016

  • More girls with disabilities should get the opportunity to go to school

    One woman and 17 men: When will we have equal representation at the UN?

    Munazza Gillani and Abia Akram
    Why is there only one woman and 17 men on the UN’s committee for championing the rights of people with disabilities?

27 June 2016

  • A child in a refugee camp near Bangui in 2013

    Disability in conflict zones: 'I told my wife to take the children and run'

    Being caught in a humanitarian crisis with a disability can lead to abandonment and neglect. How can we make humanitarian response more inclusive?

26 June 2016

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover film 1981

    The disabled community still waits for our 1960s sexual revolution

    Allan Hennessy
    Disabled people are stereotyped as passive and asexual - part of our dehumanisation. It’s time for our own sexual revolution

24 June 2016

  • MG Motivation Uganda Jerald Ouma 10

    Wheels to the world: freeing children with disability in Uganda – in pictures

    NGO Motivation is working to provide custom-built wheelchairs to children with cerebral palsy and spina bifida so that they can go to school and see friends

23 June 2016

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    Disabled people are frustrated at being denied the chance to work

    Katharine Quarmby
    Around the world there are huge employment gaps between disabled and non-disabled people. How can this be addressed? What actually works?
  • Disabled people working<br>Embargoed to 0001 Tuesday June 7 File photo dated 15/09/14 of a Disabled entrance door button, as a radical new approach is needed to prevent disabled workers leaving the workforce if the Government is to have any hope of meeting its disability employment target, a report has urged. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday June 7, 2016. The Resolution Foundation said disabled people who have been out of work for more than a year see their odds of returning to employment reduced at twice the rate of non-disabled people. See PA story INDUSTRY Disabled. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

    Russia and the US have the worst employment gaps for disabled people

    Russia, the US and Peru have the largest gaps in employment rates for people with disabilities and people without disabilities
  • Abraham Plaza on the streets of Mexico City

    Mexico City from a wheelchair: 'There's no second chance on these streets'

    Abraham Plaza is on a mission to break down the countless barriers – physical, mental and social – that make daily life in Mexico City so tough for people with disabilities. But with the help of an alliance of NGOs, he finally sees signs of hope

22 June 2016

  • 10 disability rights activists

    10 activists changing lives for disabled people around the world

  • Disabled people receive wheelchairs donated by the Disabled Persons' Federation of Beilin District

    Disability rights around the world: from 1944 to the present day

21 June 2016

  • Blind people read braille Qur’ans at a disability rehabilitation centre in Indonesia

    Disability-inclusive development isn’t cheap, but exclusion has a higher price

    Polly Meeks
  • Disabled activists in Cochabamba

    Why is the Bolivian government turning water cannon on disabled protesters?

20 June 2016

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    We need to stop treating people with disabilities as less than human

    Shantha Rau Barriga
  • Sandra with assistance dogs Luca (the black Lab) and Wizzard

    Being classified as a terrorist threat makes me feel excluded

    Sandra Emons

14 June 2016

  • Sierra Leonian's Survive In One Of The Worlds Poorest Countries<br>FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - NOVEMBER 26: A member of the Freetown Single Limb Amputee football team practises on Lumley Beach on November 26, 2006 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Nearly all the players were victims of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war that ended in 2002. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

    Live Q&A: How can we build momentum on global disability rights?

    To kick off our week focusing on disability we will be bringing experts together to debate how to make development more inclusive. Join us on Monday 20 June 1-2.30 pm BST to discuss
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