Texans with disabilities are facing a lot of challenges like public transit changes, Medicaid cuts and federal lawsuits that ...

Structured, court-ordered treatment is the right course of action for some brain disorder patients. In such cases, ideology ...

On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses--which didn't have wheelchair lifts--to demand access to public transit.

As Congress considers the SAVE America Act, short for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, an underexplored aspect ...

Lavina Oduor is a Kenyan humanist social activist, co-founder, and current Director of Heart to Heart Smile, a volunteer-led ...

Mass firings at the U.S. Department of Education will severely compromise families’ ability to ensure that the rights of their children with disabilities are upheld, advocates warn. At least 243 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Historically, the way a government treats disabled people can be an early indicator of its broader social policy ...

In his homeschool curriculum, 12-year-old Luke Lunday is learning about Section 504, a cornerstone of disability rights.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...

The Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which protects the rights of disabled individuals, faces a 62% budget cut. The center serves 46,000 developmentally disabled Kansans and is considered a vital ...

Attorney and activist Lydia X. Z. Brown, a Chinese American with a non-conforming gender, knows what it’s like to experience discrimination because of race, ethnicity and sexual expression. Brown, who ...

India has over 2.68 crore persons with disabilities, yet a new report shows that parliamentary engagement is often limited to ...