#Disability Rights
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🇺🇸 Humanitarian situation in Sudan at ‘catastrophic levels’, says NGO
[USA]
Humanity & Inclusion says people with disabilities face extreme challenges amid war and humanitarian crisis.
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🇺🇸 ‘I have fought for Aaron’: A Ugandan mother confronts disability and stigma
[USA]
Martha Apolot, 21, rejected by her family and community when her disabled son was born, fights daily to meet his needs.
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🇺🇸 Trump says people with learning disorders shouldn’t be president [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.
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🇺🇸 Minnesota settles with Lyft after blind woman denied rides over service dog
[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 ...
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🇬🇧 Father criticises letter sent to non-verbal son about changes to care
[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’
[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...
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🇺🇸 A service dog named Alfred sparked a Lyft settlement in Minnesota with nationwide reach
[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
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🇬🇧 SEND reforms to 'strip away' children's legal protections, charity says
[United Kingdom]
Planned changes to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England were announced last month.
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🇺🇸 L.A.’s broken sidewalks hurt people in wheelchairs the most
[USA]
An L.A. Times reader bemoans L.A.'s failures to fix its sidewalks and how that affects his wheelchair-bound wife.
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🇬🇧 Teenager used by NHS to tell deaf mum her dad was dying, report finds
[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.
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🇬🇧 SEN parents 'devastated' as time runs out for school leavers' law
[United Kingdom]
The Health Minister Mike Nesbitt tells assembly members "we have run out of time" to change the law.
Related: #Politics, #Education, #Healthcare
Key Entities (7)
- Donald Trump (2 news)
- Sudan (1 news)
- Uganda (1 news)
- Minnesota (1 news)
- Lyft (1 news)
- ADA (1 news)
- Gavin Newsom (1 news)
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