It had earlier emerged that although a team from the UN's committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) are in the UK questioning scores of disabled people as part of their inquiry – the existence of which was first …
Category Archives: Disability Rights
It's time to stop fighting disability and start fighting … – Rooted in Rights
Often, when mainstream society considers people with disabilities, it is with a combination of pity and admiration. Pity for having their disability, and admiration for living with it. Few outside of the disability rights movement …
Mental Health Care Reform Still Has Issues – Urban Milwaukee
John Chianelli and his team at Whole Health Clinical Group received a $1.6 million grant to expand primary care and mental healthcare in local communities. Photo by Matthew Wisla. John Chianelli knew some of his patients …
Ana's story: fighting for disability rights in Croatia | openDemocracy
Ana is among 18,000 people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities placed under guardianship in Croatia, and stripped of their legal capacity – the right to make basic decisions – to marry and form a family, to consent to …
Consumer Directed – Center for Disability Rights
Center for Disability Rights to Assist Any Individual Impacted by Home Care Information Breach and Calls Upon Local Legal Community to Support This Effort. October 20, 2015. Statement of the Center for Disability Rights on Angels in Your …