Disability news, January 2024, by country
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This update has 253 curated links from 61 countries and regions, organized across 56 subjects.
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Global
International News
In Ageing:
Global Report on Older People with Deafblindness (2023, WFDB)
Unlock the everyday a new campaign for assistive technology in low and middle-income countries. (Jan, Unlock the Everyday)
What Works highlights report a summary of learnings in data, innovation, implementation, capacity and participation. (2023, AT2030)
Why Assistive Technology matters thematic briefs explore its relations to inclusive education and climate action. (2023, ATScale)
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
Why Assistive Technology matters thematic briefs explore its relations to inclusive education and climate action. (2023, ATScale)
COP 28: the disability movement calls for inclusion in climate action “This Summit witnessed an increased presence of disability advocates and more discussion on disability issues.” (2023, EDF)
Towards COP28: Key Advocacy Messages to Include Persons with Disabilities (2023, IDA)
A Call for Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in India and Globally (2023, The Sangyan)
In Communication and Language:
Hatiye Garip’s whimsical comic embraces tactility and audio to create an accessible publication. “With raised spot gloss and an audio bundle, The Land of Uncertainty is paving the way for publications that attend to the needs of blind and low-vision folk.” (2023, It's Nice That)
Sebastião Salgado releases photography book for the blind. Providing tactile transcriptions of a photo project. (2023, Digital Camera World)
In war zones, disabled people must fend for themselves “Despite facing neglect and discrimination, disabled Palestinians and others in Sudan, Lebanon, and the Congo are advocating for themselves and their communities to demand solutions and systemic change.” (2023, Reckon)
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Sebastião Salgado releases photography book for the blind. Providing tactile transcriptions of a photo project. (2023, Digital Camera World)
Hatiye Garip’s whimsical comic embraces tactility and audio to create an accessible publication. “With raised spot gloss and an audio bundle, The Land of Uncertainty is paving the way for publications that attend to the needs of blind and low-vision folk.” (2023, It's Nice That)
The Dynamics of Photography and Disability: interview with Jaklin Romine. (2023)
The rule-breaking audio descriptions of Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See. Netflix accessibility consultant Joe Strechay talks inclusivity on set. (2023, Mashable)
8 Times When Films Or Shows Got Disability Representation Right (2023, Feminism in India)
Stories you won't read elsewhere Disability Debrief stocktake for 2023 on making media for the disability movement. (2023, Disability Debrief)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
How to improve digital inclusion and accessibility for girls with disabilities. (2023, UNICEF)
More Than Half Of All Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II Players Used The Game's Graphical Accessibility Settings (2023, Game Informer)
6 Reasons Why Accessibility is Maintained, Not Attained (2023, AccessiCart)
Try Venngage to make accessible infographics. It's now easier to create professional quality business visuals anyone can access (2023, Wonder Tools)
ChatGPT is not ready to handle web accessibility remediation (2023, Karl Groves)
Estée Lauder's Makeup App is the Tool for Blind People Voice-enabled Makeup Assistant is here—and Cosmo chatted with four of the app’s users. (2023, Cosmopolitan)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2:
“The new updates in WCAG 2.2 focus on improving accessibility for users with cognitive, learning or mobility disabilities and low vision users. This is a beneficial update, showing a positive step forward for the web accessibility standards.” (2023, AbilityNet)
ChatGPT is not ready to handle web accessibility remediation (2023, Karl Groves)
How people with disabilities can use Alexa to help them lead more independent lives (2023, Amazon)
In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:
A Resilient Future for All: a policy brief on Advancing Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience and Leaving No One Behind. (2023, UNDP)
In Economics and Social Protection:
Social protection for people with disabilities: A brief overview of global approaches:
“Only one third of persons with severe disability around the world receives a disability-related benefit. Often the design of these benefits is not aligned with international standards.” (2023, ILO)
Do children with disabilities have the same opportunities to play as children without disabilities? Evidence from the multiple indicator cluster surveys in 38 low and middle-income countries. “Children with disabilities have approximately 9% fewer play opportunities than those without disabilities“. (Jan, eClinicalMedicine)
How to improve digital inclusion and accessibility for girls with disabilities. (2023, UNICEF)
Always included a report on uninterrupted education for children with disabilities before, during, and after a crisis. (2023, Humanity and Inclusion)
How to make education inclusive for students with disabilities: Youth perspectives on inclusive education and what actions world leaders need to take to improve the education of students with disabilities. (2023, Global Partnership on Education)
Why Assistive Technology matters thematic briefs explore its relations to inclusive education and climate action. (2023, ATScale)
Chemistry is Inaccessible: How to Reduce Barriers for Disabled Scientists (2023, Educating All Learners)
In Employment, Business and Work:
Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds
“The study, published this month in Industrial Relations Journal, considered the outcomes of 90 different interventions and found a single notable exception: Workers who were given the opportunity to do charity or volunteer work did seem to have improved well-being.” (Jan, NYT)
Businesses leading the way on disability inclusion a handbook compiling corporate good practices. (2023, Global Business and Disability Network)
'Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives' a book review:
“In the epilogue, Monika Baar explains that the ideological divide that existed between socialist Eastern European and democratic Western countries in the postwar period was less structure forming than often assumed and that the different welfare state regimes had provoked similar development trajectories on the poor employment situation for people with disabilities” (2023, H-Disability)
Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work Policy Review (2023, International Organisation of Employers)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
How to improve digital inclusion and accessibility for girls with disabilities. (2023, UNICEF)
Gender-Based Violence and Disability Inclusion Fact Sheet. (2023, UNFPA)
In Health:
Health-worker education for disability inclusion in health:
“in many settings, the competence and understanding of reasonable adjustments among health workers are inadequate to provide the same quality of care to people with disabilities as to individuals without disabilities.” (2023, The Lancet)
Report on the Assessment of National Eye Health Strategies on Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities (2023, CBM Global)
Do people with disabilities experience disparities in cancer care? A systematic review:
“Compared to people without disabilities, PwD had worse cancer outcomes, in terms of poorer survival and higher overall and cancer-specific mortality. There was also evidence that PwD received poorer quality cancer care, including lower access to state-of-the-art care or curative-intent therapies, treatment delays, undertreatment or excessively invasive treatment, worse access to in-hospital services, less specialist healthcare utilization, less access to pain medications and inadequate end-of-life quality of care.” (2023, PLoS One)
How do food insecurity, hunger, and undernutrition affect people with disabilities and how can this problem be addressed? An evidence brief. (2023, Disability Evidence Portal)
Disability History Resources a guide to information for the study of disability history, signposting resources from ancient history up to contemporary history. (Jan, Bodleian Libraries Oxford)
'Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives' a book review:
“In the epilogue, Monika Baar explains that the ideological divide that existed between socialist Eastern European and democratic Western countries in the postwar period was less structure forming than often assumed and that the different welfare state regimes had provoked similar development trajectories on the poor employment situation for people with disabilities” (2023, H-Disability)
In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:
Checklist to Ensure the Meaningful Engagement of Young Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action (2023, UNFPA)
Always included a report on uninterrupted education for children with disabilities before, during, and after a crisis. (2023, Humanity and Inclusion)
Cultivating Hope: 15 Years of DRF & the Road Ahead. (2023, Disability Rights Fund)
Putting meaningful engagement with organisations of people with disabilities into practice a short video. (2023, Sightsavers)
The Center for Inclusive Policy’s Strategic Plan 2024-2026. Debrief partners CIP lay out their strategic vision as a "think and do tank". (2023, CIP)
In Mental Health:
Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds
“The study, published this month in Industrial Relations Journal, considered the outcomes of 90 different interventions and found a single notable exception: Workers who were given the opportunity to do charity or volunteer work did seem to have improved well-being.” (Jan, NYT)
Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work Policy Review (2023, International Organisation of Employers)
The Human Rights System Is Under Threat World Report 2024. Country reports include sections on disability rights. (Jan, Human Rights Watch)
The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Human Rights Hierarchies: “Despite important progress, the disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities themselves or across the human rights it promotes.” (2023, Routledge)
Safe and ethical data collection on disability inclusion in Gender Based Violence (GBV) programming. Disability Inclusion Helpdesk Report. (2023, Social Development Direct)
Gender-Based Violence and Disability Inclusion Fact Sheet. (2023, UNFPA)
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Asia-Pacific
In Civil Society and Community:
Solution Seekers for an Inclusive Future profiles of advocates across the region. (2023, UNFPA)
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
People with disabilities and the climate crisis short video from disabled people across the region. (2023, CBM Australia)
In Employment, Business and Work:
Catalysts of Change: Disability Inclusion in Business in Asia and the Pacific. “The publication presents fundamental concepts, key components of fostering disability-inclusive business, and good practices and data, and provides recommendations for businesses and governments.” (2023, UNESCAP)
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Africa
Africa
In Civil Society and Community:
Churches in Africa agree on guidelines for disability inclusion (2023, World Council of Churches)
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Egypt
We did not observe any obstacles to stop disabled people voting. According to the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. (In Arabic, 2023, Youm 7)
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Ethiopia
China wins praise for its educational assistance to Ethiopia's vulnerable students. “This came during a special ceremony held Tuesday to mark the topping-out of a Chinese-funded, multi-purpose school building for Alpha School for the Deaf in Addis Ababa” (2023, Xinhua)
China wins praise for its educational assistance to Ethiopia's vulnerable students. “This came during a special ceremony held Tuesday to mark the topping-out of a Chinese-funded, multi-purpose school building for Alpha School for the Deaf in Addis Ababa” (2023, Xinhua)
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Ghana
In Economics and Social Protection:
Energy poverty and functional disability nexus: (2023, Energy for Sustainable Development)
In Mental Health:
Invest More in Mental Health Services New Video Shows People Living Rich Lives with Community Support. (2023, Human Rights Watch)
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Guinea-Bissau
Students with disabilities hit the books to make their parents proud “Bengala Branca is the country’s first inclusive school, bringing together children with and without disabilities.” (2023, WFP)
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Kenya
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
How Kenya's ICT Accessibility Standards can create more inclusive workplaces (2023, The Standard)
In Economics and Social Protection:
137,119 persons with disability to benefit from Inua Jamii cash transfer programme. (2023, The Star)
In Employment, Business and Work:
How we navigate our careers despite disability an interview with Senior Probation Officer and Football player for Kenya Women Amputee team Caren Musungu. (2023, Business Daily)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
How Baringo mum bounced back after losing both arms Gladys Chepyegon, a 35-year-old mother of three, runs a greengrocer’s in Kabarnet town. (2023, Nation)
How we navigate our careers despite disability an interview with Senior Probation Officer and Football player for Kenya Women Amputee team Caren Musungu. (2023, Business Daily)
In Mental Health:
Kenya’s troubled 60-year mental health journey from colonial institutions and laws to those making change today. (2023, The Nation)
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Nigeria
Only 4,500 out of 35.1m PWDs in Nigeria officially registered (2023, News Digest)
In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:
Flood: Farmers with Disabilities Receive Support In Anambra “The International Organization for Migration has provided support to farmers with disabilities in flood-affected areas of Anambra, offering credit cards with 30,000 naira [33 USD] each.” (2023, Inclusive News Networks)
In Economics and Social Protection:
Only 4,500 out of 35.1m PWDs in Nigeria officially registered (2023, News Digest)
Nigerian govt dedicates 10% social interventions to PwDs (2023, Daily Nigerian)
In Employment, Business and Work:
Flood: Farmers with Disabilities Receive Support In Anambra “The International Organization for Migration has provided support to farmers with disabilities in flood-affected areas of Anambra, offering credit cards with 30,000 naira [33 USD] each.” (2023, Inclusive News Networks)
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South Sudan
In Health:
Rehabilitation centers in South Sudan restore hope for people with disabilities. (2023, Xinhua)
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Asia
Asia
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers. (Jan, Political Geography)
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Afghanistan
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Findings Report 2022 to 2023 survey. Percentage of children age 5-17 years with functional difficulty in at least one domain is 35%. (2023, UNICEF)
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Findings Report 2022 to 2023 survey. Percentage of children age 5-17 years with functional difficulty in at least one domain is 35%. (2023, UNICEF)
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Bangladesh
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
Displacement in Bangladesh behind the scenes videos from reporting on disability and climate change. (2023, Lens 15)
In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:
Our lessons: A report on AHP III on a disability inclusion journey in the Rohingya crisis. “Substantial progress was seen in the development of Self-Help Groups and the increase in accessible services and uptake of the Washington Group Questions.” (2023, CBM Australia)
In Water and Sanitation (WASH):
Assessment of WASH and incontinence situation of people with disabilities and older people. (Link to pdf, 2023, LSHTM and icddr,b)
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Cameroon
All eyes on me – being a woman with a disability in politics in Cameroon.
“Today, throughout the country, 204 people with disabilities are either elected local councillors, parliamentarians, senators or official representatives in local working groups, including myself. The number of people with disabilities registered to vote has also risen from 8,000 in 2011 to 40,000 in 2022.” (2023, Missing Perspectives)
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China
Prosthetic hand, Chinese Braille designers awarded Design Intelligence Awards. (2023, Shine)
Ongoing Challenges Faced by Persons with Disabilities in the People’s Republic of China (2023, US Congressional-Executive Commission on China)
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Georgia
In Civil Society and Community:
A crisis within the disability rights movement Publication with an interview with Esma Gumberidze exploring corruption and how disability activists can be silenced. (2023, Swedish Development Forum)
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India
In Civil Society and Community:
Parents of special school students take to streets in Goa. “The parents said that they were told to stop sending the students to the center based in the old SCERT building [...] following a student's death”. (Jan, Times of India)
In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:
When Disasters Strike Odisha Taking disability inclusive planning to the next level: behind the scenes on disability reporting. (2023, Lens15)
Parents of special school students take to streets in Goa. “The parents said that they were told to stop sending the students to the center based in the old SCERT building [...] following a student's death”. (Jan, Times of India)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
What It's Really Like to Date with a Disability! Excerpt from Abhishek Anicca's book The Grammar of My Body. (2023, Penguin)
Do not use derogatory words for persons with disability: ‘The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked political parties and its leaders to not use “derogatory words” for persons with disability in public speeches. [...] The ECI also released a set of guidelines for political parties to “promote inclusivity and respect” towards persons with disabilities.’ (2023, Hindustan Times)
Hyderabad Prioritizes Accessibility For Disabled Voters:
“essential infrastructure is being installed across 4,119 polling centers in the Hyderabad district to accommodate voters with disabilities. Dedicated thematic polling stations designed for the disabled are being established in 15 constituencies. Ramps and wheelchairs will be readily available at all polling centers to ensure easy access.” (2023, IND Today)
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Indonesia
In Mental Health:
Indonesia free from pasung: a policy analysis. “Many people with mental illnesses remain isolated, chained, and inside cages, called Pasung in Indonesia”:
“Pasung policy has generated a sense of awareness but the different directions and ambiguous messaging across all stakeholders, including policy actors, has created a lack of clarity about institutions’ roles and responsibilities in the implementation process, as well as accountability for outcomes.” (2023, International Journal of Mental Health Systems.)
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Israel
In Communication and Language:
"Nagish" opened its app to the deaf and hard of hearing for free and unlimited use, for real-time transcription of phone calls. (2023, Vertex Ventures)
Thousands of Israelis amputated, disabled: “Around 2,000 Israeli civilians, soldiers and police officers have had limbs amputated or become disabled in other ways since Oct. 7.” (Jan, Intermountain Jewish News)
Predictions of number of Israeli soldiers that will acquire disabilities. “As of late December, the defence ministry said the number of Israeli soldiers injured since 7 October had reached 3,000, with the Israeli army saying over 2,300 have been disabled.” (Jan, Middle East Eye)
Israeli State Watchdogs Find Defense Ministry Has Neglected Disabled Veterans With PTSD “State comptroller finds that huge parts of the budget allocated to expand the rehabilitation department haven't been utilized, IDF veterans are unaware of their rights and plagued by bureaucratic hurdles, lack of digital accessibility” (Jan, Haaretz)
Paralympians to help war-wounded heal from trauma “A new initiative established by the Israel Sports Association for the Disabled and the Israel Paralympic Committee aims to help the wounded adapt to their new reality, both physically and mentally.” (2023, Israel 21c)
Young Israeli artists with disabilities express emotions amid war “Over the past few weeks, Shalva’s art therapists have guided adolescents and adults to express their feelings through a variety of art forms.” (2023, The Jerusalem Post)
Paralympians to help war-wounded heal from trauma “A new initiative established by the Israel Sports Association for the Disabled and the Israel Paralympic Committee aims to help the wounded adapt to their new reality, both physically and mentally.” (2023, Israel 21c)
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Japan
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Disabled people seek accessible Nagoya Castle to be enjoyed by all “After more than 400 years, the iconic Nagoya Castle is under siege, this time by those wanting to make it more accessible to wheelchair-users and those who are determined to keep it as original as possible.” (2023, The Asahi Shimbun)
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Kyrgyzstan
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
Abused by Relatives, Ignored by the State Domestic Violence Against and Neglect of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Kyrgyzstan (2023, Human Rights Watch)
Abused by Relatives, Ignored by the State Domestic Violence Against and Neglect of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Kyrgyzstan (2023, Human Rights Watch)
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Maldives
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
Maldives Above the Surface The sea is rising, but no clear plan for people with disabilities. Behind the scenes on reporting. (2023, Lens15)
In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:
Maldives Above the Surface The sea is rising, but no clear plan for people with disabilities. Behind the scenes on reporting. (2023, Lens15)
In Economics and Social Protection:
The Impact of the Disability Allowance on Financial Well-Being Quasi-experimental Study:
“Overall, this study found a modest impact of the Disability Allowance, mainly in food security. Receipt of the Disability Allowance was attributable to a decrease in the use of negative coping mechanisms in response to food insecurity and an increase in the food proportion of household consumption expenditures.” (2023, The European Journal of Development Research)
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Nepal
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
This 28-year-old from Nepal is telling COP28: Don't forget people with disabilities. (2023, NPR)
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Pakistan
In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:
“We can only move forward together”: Ensuring inclusive post-disaster recovery. (2023, World Bank)
Ability in disability: “Are we doing our bit to empower people with special needs in Pakistan?” (2023, Geo.tv)
Persons with disabilities demand true inclusion. Covering the last decade of actions on disability rights. (2023, Fair Planet)
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Palestine
Gaza's child amputees face further risks without expert care “More than 1,000 children had undergone leg amputations, sometimes more than once or on both legs, by end-November, according to U.N. children's agency UNICEF” (Jan, Reuters)
Video shows Israeli soldier shooting mentally disabled Palestinian in West Bank:
“When Tarek Abu Abed told the men that he did not have identification, an argument ensued that culminated in Tarek being shot, according to his brother.” (2023, CNN)
How do deaf people live in the Gaza strip during the war? A short video (In Arabic, 2023, BBC)
Disabled NZ resident battling to get out of Gaza “Despite Ghada Alree being unable to walk and reliant on family for mobility, New Zealand initially told her this week they would not allow her mother to be added to a list with her for evacuation from Gaza to Egypt.” (2023, NZ Herald)
Israeli Forces Attack Gaza Church Just Days Before Christmas The patriarchate said that the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Theresa, part of the church compound was home to 54 disabled people. “The 54 disabled persons are currently displaced and without access to the respirators that some of them need to survive,” (2023, Huffpost)
Amputations, nerve injuries and fractures - New report on injuries caused by heavy bombing. (2023, Humanity & Inclusion)
New catastrophic plight in Gaza: Israel’s attacks leave more than 5,000 Palestinians disabled. (2023, Euro Med Monitor)
12-year-old Dunia lost her leg in an Israeli airstrike that killed her whole family. Dunia speaks in her recovery. She was killed a few weeks later. (2023, Defense for Children)
UN expert demands unconditional humanitarian access and relief for people with disabilities:
“This region has increasing disability rates among the population because of exposure to repeated armed conflicts in addition to the current bombardment of the Gaza strip, and all relief teams and international bodies must take this into account.” (2023, Relief Web)
Trapped and traumatised, Gaza's disabled face death sentence (2023, The New Arab)
The number of persons with disabilities has doubled in Gaza Strip between 2007 and 2017. (2023, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
Accessible and Inclusive Higher Education for Palestinian Students with Disability: Policies and Practices Review:
“The results showed absence of factual information about Palestinian students with disabilities, lack of support to adopting in IHE in almost all existing policies and strategic goals, a mixture of practices facilitating and hindering implementation of core elements of IHE, and experience-based policies and practices proposed by the participants to make higher education more accessible and inclusive.” (2023, Apollo)
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Philippines
Intersection of Gender and Disability on Returns to Education A Case from Metro Manila, Philippines. (2023, Merits)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
Intersection of Gender and Disability on Returns to Education A Case from Metro Manila, Philippines. (2023, Merits)
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Qatar
In Economics and Social Protection:
The disability price tag: The economic costs of caring for children with disabilities in Qatar:
“Quantitatively, within the small sample, the total disability price tag of raising CWNDs in Qatar was found to be between QAR 2,700 [741 USD] and 40,000 [10,987 USD] per month, which can represent between 15 and 420% of the average family’s median income.” (2023, Doha International Family Institute Journal)
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Saudi Arabia
In Economics and Social Protection:
More about what Saudi Arabia offers for persons with disabilities (In Arabic, 2023, Alarabiya)
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South Korea
In Civil Society and Community:
Seoul Metro to ban all subway protests by disability advocacy group “Seoul Metro claimed that delays totaling over 86 hours have been caused by the subway protests on 471 occasions since 2021, resulting in some 780 million won (US $600,936) in losses.” (2023, Yonhap)
Disabled activist files complaint with human rights watchdog over arrest during subway protest: “I held on to my wheelchair not to be arrested, but I could not move because the police took my arms and twisted them”. (2023, Korea JoongAng Daily)
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Sri Lanka
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
Sri Lanka Copes With Climate Change After decades of instability, people with disabilities confront another man made disaster. Behind the scenes on reporting. (2023, Len15)
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Turkmenistan
Speak my language: a first for digital voice communication in Turkmen. “Thanks to this project, people with screen readers will be able to download the text-to-speech voice in Turkmen.” (2023, ATScale)
In Communication and Language:
Speak my language: a first for digital voice communication in Turkmen. “Thanks to this project, people with screen readers will be able to download the text-to-speech voice in Turkmen.” (2023, ATScale)
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Uzbekistan
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
Climate change highlights the need for disability-inclusive adaptation (2023, World Bank)
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Yemen
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Findings 2022-2023 across 20,000 households. Percentage of children age 5-17 years with functional difficulty in at least one domain is 21%. (2023, UNICEF)
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Findings 2022-2023 across 20,000 households. Percentage of children age 5-17 years with functional difficulty in at least one domain is 21%. (2023, UNICEF)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
Successes and Setbacks a Debrief feature on the life stories of women with disabilities. (Jan, Disability Debrief)
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Europe
Europe
In Civil Society and Community:
Inclusive Philanthropy: Foundations and Disability Rights a series interviewing foundations and development actors. (2023, EDF)
Critical situation of persons with disabilities in Gaza Letter to the President of the European Commission. (2023, EDF)
Children with Disabilities in Europe and Central Asia: A statistical overview of their well-being (2023, UNICEF)
In Economics and Social Protection:
Enhancing the accessibility of payment terminals for people with visual impairments. (Link to pdf, 2023, European Blind Union)
Children with Disabilities in Europe and Central Asia: A statistical overview of their well-being (2023, UNICEF)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
Intersections: a survey on experiences of LGBTI persons with disabilities in Europe. (2023, ILGA Europe)
In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:
The role of state aid in the maintenance of institutions for disabled people A case study on Germany and Portugal (Link to pdf, 2023, ENIL)
Inclusive Philanthropy: Foundations and Disability Rights a series interviewing foundations and development actors. (2023, EDF)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Passengers with disabilities “grounded” by proposed Passenger Rights Package (2023, EDF)
Union of equality? Here’s the reality. A report on what the “European way of life” means for 20 million people with intellectual disabilities and their families:
‘Half of EU countries don’t allow people with intellectual disabilities to vote. 700,000 people are forced to live in harmful segregated institutional “care”.’ (2023, Inclusion Europe)
People with intellectual disabilities denied voting rights in seven EU countries (Jan, Euractiv)
Is your election campaign accessible? Assess with our checklists. (2023, EDF)
Guide of good electoral practices in Member States addressing the participation of citizens with disabilities in the electoral process. (2023, European Commission)
Expanding Voting Rights of Persons with Disabilities declaration led by the Spanish Presidency of the Council. (2023, EDF)
In War in Ukraine:
EU Commission Highlights Disability Rights in Ukraine “Ukraine should go further by ending institutionalization and ensuring everyone, including people with disabilities and older people, can exercise their right to live in the community.” (2023, Human Rights Watch)
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Belgium
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
'He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says. (2023, Vice)
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Denmark
6-year-old girl not allowed to participate in sports because of her visual impairment (In Danish, Jan, TV FYN)
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Finland
In Health:
Young adults with severe physical disabilities Negative public health care experiences after their health care transition in Finland (2023, Alter)
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France
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
A lot has been said about me: I had to move forward. Documentaries about the lives of disabled people, “who must learn to live with their bodies, bypass the narratives that we build on their backs and make do with the obstacles that society throws in their way.” (2023, BLAST)
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Germany
Book review of 'What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea' a collection of photographs of people with cognitive disabilities starting in 1980. (2023, H-Disability)
In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:
Concern over rights to naturalization for migrants with disabilities “The amount of money one needs to have in their bank account to prove self-sufficiency will be raised, which could serve as a barrier to people with disabilities who receive social benefits.” (2023, Infomigrants)
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Ireland
In Civil Society and Community:
Coalition of disability groups set for mass protest outside Dáil against plans to reform welfare payments. (2023, The Irish Times)
In Communication and Language:
Ireland's first sign language café opens in Dublin (2023, Irish Examiner)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
Can we use AI to tackle internet accessibility? “We visited Vision Ireland and its spin-out IA Labs, which is looking at AI as a way to make the internet more accessible for people with visual impairments.” (2023, Silicon Republic)
Can we use AI to tackle internet accessibility? “We visited Vision Ireland and its spin-out IA Labs, which is looking at AI as a way to make the internet more accessible for people with visual impairments.” (2023, Silicon Republic)
In Economics and Social Protection:
Coalition of disability groups set for mass protest outside Dáil against plans to reform welfare payments. (2023, The Irish Times)
A tribute to Selina Bonnie from ILMI “As a professional, academic and activist, Selina has been actively involved in the practical realisation of disabled people’s rights in Ireland and beyond.” (Jan, ILMI)
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Italy
Book review of 'Disability and Tourism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy' (2023, H-Disability)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Book review of 'Disability and Tourism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy' (2023, H-Disability)
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Malta
In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:
Forced sterilisation to become illegal in all circumstances Up until now, legal guardians can decide to sterilise people with mental disabilities (2023, Times of Malta)
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Netherlands
Shifting terminology and confusing representations An examination of intellectual disability terminology in Dutch newspapers from 1950 to 2020 (2023, Alter)
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Portugal
In Civil Society and Community:
An interview with Rodrigo Santos, president of ACAPO, the Association of Blind and Visually Impaired of Portugal. (Jan, European Blind Union)
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Russia
In Civil Society and Community:
Human rights defenders secure prosecutors’ attention to problems of people with disabilities in Dagestan. “Officials of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of Dagestan may face criminal prosecution in connection with regular violations of the rights of people with disabilities to medical products and rehabilitation means.” (2023, Caucasian Knot)
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Spain
Spain's San Cristóbal wins EU Access City Award 2024 “For example, all vehicles and all stations of the city’s tram network are fully accessible, and the city centre has acoustic traffic lights and tactile paving to guide visually impaired people.” (2023, Disability Insider)
In Civil Society and Community:
Three Kings with disabilities go to the streets of Madrid to raise awareness. They gave symbolic gifts to the mayor, rector of the university and the bishop to represent accessible heritage, inclusive education and a more diverse society. (In Spanish, Jan, Discapnet)
Inclusive volunteering a guide to help voluntary organizations become inclusive of persons with disabilities. (In Spanish, 2023, CEDID)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
“Fake Autism” a campaign to combat disinformation on social media about autism. (In Spanish, 2023, Laboratorio de Periodismo)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
10% of women killed by gender-based violence had disabilities (In Spanish, 2023, Efemenista)
Mar Galcerán makes history as Spain’s first parliamentarian with Down’s syndrome elected to Valencia's regional assembly. (Jan, the Guardian)
10% of women killed by gender-based violence had disabilities (In Spanish, 2023, Efemenista)
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Ukraine
Ukrainian reconstruction efforts lack commitment to accessibility. (2023, Euractiv)
In Ageing:
They live in the dark a report on the situation of older people and people with disabilities:
“Russia’s invasion has fuelled a crisis in Ukraine’s already overburdened care system. In many communities, younger relatives who previously supported older people with disabilities have fled or enlisted in the military, while older people have stayed behind. Despite the individual heroism of social and healthcare workers, who have continued providing support to older people and people with disabilities in the face of great personal risks and often with minimal pay, there are simply not enough workers – nor enough transportation – to serve this growing need. Because most temporary shelters are physically inaccessible to older people with disabilities, and private accommodation is unaffordable to them due to extremely low pensions and rising rents, older people in Ukraine are often placed in segregated institutional settings, where they are isolated from their communities and loved ones.” (2023, Amnesty)
In War in Ukraine:
Ukraine denies rumors of border closure for men with 3rd group disability
“Rumors have circulated on Ukrainian social media that men of conscription age with group 3 disabilities have been denied the right to leave Ukraine, despite being exempt from conscription. A recent scandal on the matter erupted following the removal of 20 individuals from a Poland-bound Ukrainian train.” (2023, Yahoo! News)
They live in the dark a report on the situation of older people and people with disabilities:
“Russia’s invasion has fuelled a crisis in Ukraine’s already overburdened care system. In many communities, younger relatives who previously supported older people with disabilities have fled or enlisted in the military, while older people have stayed behind. Despite the individual heroism of social and healthcare workers, who have continued providing support to older people and people with disabilities in the face of great personal risks and often with minimal pay, there are simply not enough workers – nor enough transportation – to serve this growing need. Because most temporary shelters are physically inaccessible to older people with disabilities, and private accommodation is unaffordable to them due to extremely low pensions and rising rents, older people in Ukraine are often placed in segregated institutional settings, where they are isolated from their communities and loved ones.” (2023, Amnesty)
The impact of the war in Ukraine on the rights of persons with disabilities a monitoring report from “League of Strong”, together with the KRF “Public Alternative”. (2023, EDF)
Ukraine’s Recruiters Use Harsh Tactics to Fill Ranks “Recruiters have confiscated passports, taken people from their jobs and, in at least one case, tried to send a mentally disabled person to military training” (2023, NYT)
‘I had my chance to die – but I made my choice’: meet the young Ukrainian soldier fighting for amputee visibility. (2023, the Guardian)
Ukraine prepares to serve veterans with disabilities · Global Voices The country faces a dramatic demand for disability-friendly services amid the Russian war (Jan, Global Voices)
Ukrainian reconstruction efforts lack commitment to accessibility. (2023, Euractiv)
Inclusive reconstruction of Ukraine: What’s at stake? “War destruction offers a ‘chance’ to rebuild Ukraine in a way that considers its changing identity — and with special attention for people with disabilities such as soldiers and amputees” (2023, Euractiv)
They understand me like no one else: peer support for injured Ukrainian soldier. (2023, EDF)
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United Kingdom
Choice is not an option The experiences of people with dwarfism using self-service technology. (2023, Alter)
In Communication and Language:
British Sign Language GCSE set to launch in 2025 (2023, TES magazine)
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Doctor Who's disability representation proves why small moments matter (2023, Radio Times)
Vogue model Ellie Goldstein: 'Doctors said I wouldn't walk or talk'. (2023, BBC)
In Economics and Social Protection:
Disability and financial wellbeing: barriers and accessibility. (2023, FTAdviser)
British Sign Language GCSE set to launch in 2025 (2023, TES magazine)
Disability landscape report highlights barriers still facing disabled chemists (2023, Chemistry World)
In Employment, Business and Work:
Top Disability Confident members ‘do no better on jobs than non-members’ (2023, Disability News Service)
Book review of Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640. (2023, H-Disability)
Disability Histories items in the National Museums of Scotland collection (2023, National Museums Scotland)
In loving memory of Alan Benson MBE. “Alan’s work has had a lasting impact not only on transport accessibility, but the entire disabled community.” (2023, Transport for All)
In Justice Systems and Legal Capacity:
‘Judges know more about their gentleman's club wine than disability rights’ John Horan was flying high in the legal world but then suffered a stroke. (Jan, Camden New Journal)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
This is how we do it: ‘His disability might change the sex we have, but we’ll adapt’. (2023, the Guardian)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Catching up with Amar Latif, the blind adventurer making the world more inclusive. (2023, Wanderlust)
Are we there yet? Research into disabled people's experiences of transport in England: the barriers we face, and priorities for change.
“We do not have equitable access to any mode of transport, and the impacts of this injustice can be felt in every corner of our lives” (2023)
Hacking the underground a book on disability, infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System. “Centering the voices of disabled passengers, Hacking the Underground highlights how marginalized groups subvert and ultimately transform infrastructures, actively shaping them.” (2023, University of Washington Press)
British Airways improves accessibility for deaf passengers “Changes being implemented include new signed video content containing various helpful travel information being made available to customers both pre-travel and while onboard.” (2023, Aerotime Hub)
In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:
This is how we do it: ‘His disability might change the sex we have, but we’ll adapt’. (2023, the Guardian)
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North America
Canada
Mapping Our Cities For All A Research Study on City Accessibility from the Perspective of People with Disabilities:
“nearly 60% of mapped buildings in each major city remain in the Not Accessible or Partially Accessible category.” (Jan, Access Now)
Living with a spinal CSF Leak: making your home more accessible a detailed feature by Jodi Ettenberg on her accessibility modifications. (2023, Jodi Ettenberg)
In COVID-19:
COVID: 1 in 9 Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms. “Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said, including 42 per cent who had them for a year or more.” (2023, CTV News)
Canadian Survey on Disability, 2017 to 2022:
“New findings from the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) showed that 27% of Canadians aged 15 years and older, or 8.0 million people, had one or more disabilities that limited them in their daily activities. The rate of disability in Canada has increased by 5 percentage points since 2017, when 22% of Canadians, or 6.2 million people, had one or more disabilities. This increase can be partially attributed to both the aging population and the large increase in mental health-related disabilities among youth and working-age adults. In 2022, the rate of disability was higher among women (30%) than men (24%), following the same pattern from 2017.” (2023, Statistics Canada)
COVID: 1 in 9 Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms. “Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said, including 42 per cent who had them for a year or more.” (2023, CTV News)
In Health:
Dismantling systemic ableism in health research “An unheralded accessibility plan from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is a step toward wider awareness of entrenched disability barriers.” (2023, Policy Options)
Beryl Potter Takes On Paratransit Much can be learned from the disability activist’s 1981 protest against Wheel-Trans. An excerpt from Dustin Galer's biography of her. (Jan, The Tyee)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
Living with a spinal CSF Leak: making your home more accessible a detailed feature by Jodi Ettenberg on her accessibility modifications. (2023, Jodi Ettenberg)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Beryl Potter Takes On Paratransit Much can be learned from the disability activist’s 1981 protest against Wheel-Trans. An excerpt from Dustin Galer's biography of her. (Jan, The Tyee)
Air Canada Fined For Accessibility Lapses “Air Canada has been slapped with a series of fines for failing disabled passengers in 2023, racking up penalties worth a total of CA$260,000 over the last 12 months.” (2023, Pyok)
Canadian Para athletes not immune to hazards of travel, where damaged equipment can cost shot at a medal. (2023, CBC)
Canadian Para athletes not immune to hazards of travel, where damaged equipment can cost shot at a medal. (2023, CBC)
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Guatemala
In Health:
Healthcare Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Challenges in the Provision of Quality Primary Healthcare for People with Disabilities in Three Regions of Guatemala: A Qualitative Study:
‘What stood out in this study, however, were two sentiments expressed by healthcare providers: one, the practitioners appeared to feel the necessity for separate spaces and specially trained staff, with a particular focus on how to interact with people with disabilities; and two, the need for “empathy” in order to provide quality primary care services to people with disabilities.’ (2023, IJERPH)
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Honduras
In Civil Society and Community:
People with disabilities protest in Choluteca, demanding fulfillment of state promises. “Those affected indicate that they require wheelchairs, vouchers, food, medicines and other supplies, which, despite requests sent to the authorities, have not been given a response.” (In Spanish, Jan, HCH)
In Economics and Social Protection:
People with disabilities protest in Choluteca, demanding fulfillment of state promises. “Those affected indicate that they require wheelchairs, vouchers, food, medicines and other supplies, which, despite requests sent to the authorities, have not been given a response.” (In Spanish, Jan, HCH)
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Jamaica
Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) has launched the Accessibility Checklist “which is designed to identify architectural and communication barriers encountered by persons with disabilities in private and public facilities.” (2023, Jamaica Information Service)
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United States
Philadelphia is the country’s first “sensory-inclusive city.” What does that mean for people with other disabilities? (2023, Philadelphia Inquirer)
In Ageing:
Mobility-Friendly Travel Guide a “comprehensive guide designed to make travel accessible, enjoyable, and worry-free for those using wheelchairs, walkers, and canes.” (2023, NCOA)
In Black Lives Matter and Racial justice:
Listening to Black Californians with Disabilities on healthcare experiences. (2023, California Health Care Foundation)
In COVID-19:
1,374 Days My life with long covid. (2023, NYT)
In Civil Society and Community:
Why Fund Disability Rights and Disability Justice? a fact sheet for funders. (2023, Disability & Philanthropy Forum)
In Communication and Language:
A disability advocate preserves his voice with iPhone For physician and disability advocate Tristram Ingham, Apple’s new speech accessibility features provide reassurance amid an uncertain future (2023, Apple)
Personal Voice Should be a Game Changer for Me. It's Not. “If you know you are at risk of losing your speech, chances are you - like Nick - may not be able to read and recite sentences in these optimal conditions.” (2023, Reach Every Voice)
NFL Player learning ASL and bringing his own flair to the language (2023, NPR)
Palestine is Disabled “A free Palestine is a disability justice issue. Disability justice will not win without a free Palestine. Where disabled people live in a land that is at peace. Where we get to just be.” (Jan, Disability Visibility Project)
Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice “I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed. I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.” (2023, Disability Visibility Project)
What Does Disability Justice Mean in Gaza? On debility, drones, and solidarity. (2023, Sluggish)
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography. “M. Leona Godin Considers, Among Other Things, the Enduring Trope of the Blind Pencil Vendor” (Jan, Lithub)
Her Guide Dog Inspired Her Art. “After losing her sight in an accident, Emilie Gossiaux found meaning and art in a bond with her dog, London, celebrated at the Queens Museum.” (2023, New York Times)
Exploring the Imaginative Worlds of Blind Children in “The Unicorn in Snowpants Suddenly Ran Off”. “Philipp Schaeffer’s film is a glimpse at the overlap of play and perception.” (2023, The New Yorker)
The Media, Disability, and Me ‘Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning.’ (2023, The Nation)
Will fashion ever be truly diverse? A new program at Parsons School of Design aims to close the gap for designers with disabilities (2023, Washington Post)
The United States Census Bureau’s Decision to Switch to the Washington Group Questions a justification of reasons for the change. (2023, Center for Inclusive Policy)
Do you hear what I see? How blindness changes how you process the sound of movement (2023, The Conversation)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
A disability advocate preserves his voice with iPhone For physician and disability advocate Tristram Ingham, Apple’s new speech accessibility features provide reassurance amid an uncertain future (2023, Apple)
Personal Voice Should be a Game Changer for Me. It's Not. “If you know you are at risk of losing your speech, chances are you - like Nick - may not be able to read and recite sentences in these optimal conditions.” (2023, Reach Every Voice)
Blind Leader Wins $2 Million Settlement Over Inaccessible California Parks Website. (2023, Tre Legal)
OMB Releases Digital Accessibility Guidance to Ensure All Americans Have Ability to Access Critical Government Resources. (2023, The White House)
Few Interpreters, a Byzantine System, and a Child in Need of Learning —Welcome to New York. “Navigating the city’s services for students with disabilities is hard. Even more so for non-English-speaking parents.” (2023, Mother Jones)
America Promises Equality for Disabled Students. It’s Failing. A project exploring “how our country’s education system underserves them—and the fight to change that.”:
‘It has been nearly 50 years since the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) passed, guaranteeing a “free appropriate public education” to disabled students. But our system is not living up to this promise. More than one-third of these students don’t graduate high school. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has more than 2,500 open investigations into complaints from parents of children with disabilities; some have been unresolved for over a decade.’ (2023, Mother Jones)
Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto (2023, Disability Studies Quarterly)
UCLA has a new disability studies major (2023, Los Angeles Times)
STEM PhDs with disabilities are underpaid and underrepresented in U.S. academia, earning “$14,360 less per year in academia than those without disabilities.” (2023, HUB)
Uncharted: stories about people with disabilities in STEM fields. (2023, The Story Collider)
In Employment, Business and Work:
Disability Inclusion Imperative a report showing how:
“the business case for hiring persons with disabilities has become even stronger. Specifically, companies that have led on key disability inclusion criteria over that time saw 1.6 times more revenue, 2.6 times more net income and 2 times more economic profit than other companies in the Disability Equality Index.” (2023, Accenture and Disability:IN)
In Health:
U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients. (2023, Stat)
Listening to Black Californians with Disabilities on healthcare experiences. (2023, California Health Care Foundation)
Why Food Sharing Is at the Heart of the Disability Justice Movement (2023, Eater)
Mark Bookman: We Miss Knowing That You're There (2023, The Datekeepers)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
Your 2024 Disability Horoscopes (Jan, The Squeaky Wheel)
Justin Cooper: The Accessibility Advocate A Black disabled photographer, filmmaker and podcaster. (2023, Chicago Reader)
He hits four L.A. raves a night in a wheelchair: ‘We need more disabled people going out’ (2023, Los Angeles Times)
How to navigate a chronic illness Whether it’s your own or someone else’s (2023, Vox)
1,374 Days My life with long covid. (2023, NYT)
My Tattoos Have Helped Me Reclaim My Chronic Pain “My life involves two kinds of needles.” (2023, Refinery29)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Mobility-Friendly Travel Guide a “comprehensive guide designed to make travel accessible, enjoyable, and worry-free for those using wheelchairs, walkers, and canes.” (2023, NCOA)
Travelers, advocates say airlines can do better for disabled flyers Airlines damaged thousands of mobility aids this year: Here's how 30+ flyers were affected. (2023, USA Today)
Office of Public Engagement Disability Community Newsletter (Jan, White House)
How Disabled People Are Building Political Power (2023) Non Profit Quarterly
Lawmakers With Disabled Children Find Common Ground in Divided Congress “Members of Congress who have children with disabilities have bonded over that shared experience, despite vast political differences and broader polarization.” (2023, New York Times)
In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:
Reproductive justice for disabled people post-Dobbs: A call-to-action for researchers (2023, Disability and Health Journal)
Zero gravity, equal opportunity: How disabled astronauts are rewriting the rules in space. (2023, ZME Science)
NFL Player learning ASL and bringing his own flair to the language (2023, NPR)
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Oceania
Australia
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
'I believe deaf people are the best listeners in the world': Just another day as a deaf music critic. (2023, ABC News)
Seeing the story — just another day working as a blind critic (2023, ABC News)
Five disability-led Australian podcasts that are a must listen. (2023, ABC News)
‘Volunteering has made a big impact on my career’: The ABC’s disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella shares her story. (2023, The Australian Volunteers Program)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
A new playground: the digital lives of young people with disability. (2023, Analysis & Policy Observatory)
In Economics and Social Protection:
Accessibility and Inclusion Principles for Banking Services (link to pdf, 2023, Australian Banking Association)
Accessing Formal Supports in Australia: The Experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women with Disabilities. (2023, Women With Disabilities Australia)
Working together to deliver the NDIS an independent review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme. “People with disability must be at the centre of the NDIS. But more than that, they must be at the centre of a new comprehensive disability support ecosystem.” (2023, Australian Government)
Students living with a disability are falling behind at university due to lack of accessible, flexible study options. (2023, ABC News)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
Accessing Formal Supports in Australia: The Experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women with Disabilities. (2023, Women With Disabilities Australia)
In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:
Listening to People with Intellectual Disability about Institutions “This article provides a model of inclusive research for turning the harms of past institutionalisation into an educational and reparative experience.” (2023, International Journal of Disability and Social Justice)
‘Volunteering has made a big impact on my career’: The ABC’s disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella shares her story. (2023, The Australian Volunteers Program)
Measuring disability equity – why the disability policy marker matters. “In 2021, 18% of Australia’s bilateral official development assistance (ODA) was identified as disability inclusive” (2023, Dev Policy Blog)
Re-establishing DFAT’s leadership on disability equity and rights How the OECD-DAC Disability Marker Can Help (2023, CBM Australia)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
Khadija Gbla is now out of the disability closet and feels more powerful than ever. “It took me 34 years to be able to have the space, the opportunity, the safety to give that to myself and say I am disabled.” (2023, ABC News)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Introducing Australia’s new wave of accessible beaches (2023, The Independent)
Abrolhos Islands upgrades make paradise more accessible for tourists (2023, ABC News)
New national Fitness to Drive standards are 'discriminatory' and 'humiliating' for autistic drivers, psychologists say. (2023, ABC News)
Analysing the recommendations of the Royal Commission on a Disability Rights Act (2023, Disability Advocacy Network Australia)
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New Zealand
The intersecting issues for disabled women experiencing homelessness “Disabled women experiencing homelessness often contend with heightened levels of social isolation, exacerbating the difficulties connecting with support services.” (2023, Coalition to end women's homelessness)
In Communication and Language:
Deaf community hopeful airline safety videos will feature NZSL Chief Ombudsman ruled the regulatory body's decision not to include it is "unreasonable". (2023, 1 News)
In Indigenous People and Minority Communities:
Exploring te ao Māori and te reo Māori whakaaro from one Pākehā blind person. (2023, Blind Citizens NZ)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
Deaf community hopeful airline safety videos will feature NZSL Chief Ombudsman ruled the regulatory body's decision not to include it is "unreasonable". (2023, 1 News)
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Pacific
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Capturing Vision Through Sound and Touch Disability Justice Project Fellows Harness iPhone Technology to Spotlight Climate Crisis in the Pacific. (Jan, Disability Justice Project)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
Capturing Vision Through Sound and Touch Disability Justice Project Fellows Harness iPhone Technology to Spotlight Climate Crisis in the Pacific. (Jan, Disability Justice Project)
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South America
Brazil
In Employment, Business and Work:
Proposal to make quota law more flexible provokes demonstrations. (In Portuguese, Jan, Diário PCD)
New Disabilities Plan in Brazil Leaves Many Out ‘the plan, New “Living without Limits”, leaves out the thousands of people with disabilities who are living in institutions.’ (Jan, Human Rights Watch)
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Chile
Goodbye, Santiago 2023. Hello, sporting legacy for Chile. (In Spanish, 2023, Yo También)
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Peru
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
Why aren't there inclusive cities and societies? A video profile of Andrea Burga. (In Spanish, Jan, DW)
Inclusive Education For Children With Disabilities a program from UNICEF. (2023, Forbes)
In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:
Inclusive Education For Children With Disabilities a program from UNICEF. (2023, Forbes)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
Why aren't there inclusive cities and societies? A video profile of Andrea Burga. (In Spanish, Jan, DW)
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