Category Archives: Disability

My Mental Health Christmas List | Recovering from Mental Illness …

There's a popular Christmas song called My Grown-Up Christmas List. In the song, the musician sings about a desire for healing, peace, and friendship. In keeping with that spirit, here is my Mental Health Christmas list.

Ensure community mental health services can continue supporting …

Recently the Victorian government released a 10-year plan Mental Health Plan. The 10-year plan recognises that mental health is everyone's business and that other sectors and systems have a role in addressing the social …

disAbility rights | Creating life with words: Inspiration, love and truth

disability rights. finding our way wanting the same our differences visible or invisible not to be seen as disabilities. but as Abilities we are still the same even though we may look different or act differently to you our hearts are in …

Assisted dying: Disability rights campaigners lose court challenge …

'Disability rights campaigners who say the assisted suicide policy in England and Wales is too “liberal” have lost a High Court legal challenge.' Full story. BBC News, 4th December 2015. Source: www.bbc.co.uk.

Global progress on disability rights | From Poverty to Power

[Quick note on terminology: we use the term 'persons with disabilities' to reflect the UNCRPD terminology, but we recognise that disability rights movements worldwide also use 'people with disabilities' or 'disabled people'].