#Disability Rights

Articles (11)

• 🇺🇸 Humanitarian situation in Sudan at ‘catastrophic levels’, says NGO — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Humanity & Inclusion says people with disabilities face extreme challenges amid war and humanitarian crisis.

  Related: #Humanitarian Crisis, #Armed Conflict
• 🇺🇸 ‘I have fought for Aaron’: A Ugandan mother confronts disability and stigma — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Martha Apolot, 21, rejected by her family and community when her disabled son was born, fights daily to meet his needs.

  Related: #Social Stigma
• 🇺🇸 Trump says people with learning disorders shouldn’t be president — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump said that California Gov. Gavin Newsom shouldn’t be president because he has dyslexia, a common learning disability that Newsom has spoken about publicly.

  Related: #Political Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Minnesota settles with Lyft after blind woman denied rides over service dog — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Rideshare company Lyft will ensure the rights of passengers with service animals under a settlement announced this week. This comes after a Minnesota woman who is blind reported that multiple drivers ...

  Related: #Legal Settlement
• 🇬🇧 Father criticises letter sent to non-verbal son about changes to care — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Glynn Brown's son Aaron is unable to communicate and has round the clock support.

  Related: #Healthcare Communication
• 🇺🇸 Newsom fires back at Trump over post calling dyslexia ‘mental disorder’ — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President Trump over a post calling dyslexia a “mental disorder.” In a post on his Truth Social platform Wednesday evening, Trump said that New...

  Related: #Political Conflict
• 🇺🇸 A service dog named Alfred sparked a Lyft settlement in Minnesota with nationwide reach — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Lyft has agreed to protect the rights of blind and disabled riders to travel with service animals under a Minnesota settlement that applies nationwide

  Related: #Legal Settlement
• 🇬🇧 SEND reforms to 'strip away' children's legal protections, charity says — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Planned changes to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England were announced last month.

  Related: #Education Policy
• 🇺🇸 L.A.’s broken sidewalks hurt people in wheelchairs the most — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  An L.A. Times reader bemoans L.A.'s failures to fix its sidewalks and how that affects his wheelchair-bound wife.

  Related: #Accessibility, #Urban Planning, #Transportation Infrastructure, #City Services
• 🇬🇧 Teenager used by NHS to tell deaf mum her dad was dying, report finds — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A teenage boy was used by NHS staff to tell his deaf mother that her father might die overnight, an investigation has found.

  Related: #Healthcare, #Safeguarding
• 🇬🇧 SEN parents 'devastated' as time runs out for school leavers' law — 10/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The Health Minister Mike Nesbitt tells assembly members "we have run out of time" to change the law.

  Related: #Politics, #Education, #Healthcare