(New York) – Hilda Macheso, a Malawian disability rights advocate, is the 2025/2026 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Human ...
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...
What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
(New York) – Benon Kabale, a Ugandan disability rights advocate, is the 2024 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Human Rights ...
GENEVA (31 March 2026) - The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) today issued its findings on ...
The Human Rights Commission has welcomed the island’s adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, it also advised that more must be done to stamp out ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowans with disabilities have certain rights when it comes to housing they might not realize. With that in mind, the Office of Equity and Human Rights in Iowa City hosted a ...
1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to education. With a view to realizing this right without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, States Parties shall ...
A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...
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