Disability Resource Library
Welcome to the Disability Debrief library, a catalogue of hand-picked news and resources from over 160 countries.
Browsing the library you will find disabled people's stories, analysis, entertainment and the latest research. Explore disability around the world, and the ways it intersects with all areas of social life.
You can explore by subjects or countries. There's also a dedicated guide on climate change.
Below you can see some of the recent highlights. The latest update was in November 2024.
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Recent Highlights
Their mission? To mould us. The persistence of segregation in education, from its colonial roots to now. Plus a love-hate relationship with education. (Nov, Disability Debrief)
Unequal partnership Funders should support the disability movement more directly: analysis of recent research that reveals grassroots organisations of persons with disabilities are funded as “indirectly as possible”. (Nov, Disability Debrief)
UN Flagship Report On Disability And Development 2024 An important overview of available evidence on disability:
“The report indicates that persons with disabilities are often left behind in the efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, with wide gaps persisting between persons with and without disabilities, particularly on food security, health, and access to energy and ICT. Considering COVID-19, the report assesses the different ways the pandemic impacted progress towards achieving these goals and identifies concrete steps forward that is inclusive for all.” (Nov, UNDESA)
The Charter of Solfagnano G7 commitment on disability inclusion:
“We strongly reaffirm our commitment to show leadership and ambition, in line with the UNCRPD, and to collaborate, towards its full implementation with all international institutional partners representing persons with disabilities, associations, third- sector organisations, local communities and the private sector that intends to support the recognition of the right of all to full and effective participation in the civil, social, political, economic and cultural life of our countries.” (Oct, G7 Italia 2024)
Discuss, curse and flirt Debrief discussion of signed communication in Nepal and International Sign. (Oct, Disability Debrief)
What went wrong? Exclusive coverage on the Debrief of the crisis at the International Disability Alliance and exploration of the changes needed in disability leadership. (Sep, Disability Debrief)
In Georgia:
What type of country we become Disabled people between Georgia’s Soviet legacy and European future:
“As disabled people, whatever happens in the world affects us. In article I explain how larger geopolitical battles also play out in the disability community. On the one hand the legacy of the Soviet Union is still present. And on the other hand Europe gives us an ideal of what rights can look like, even as they are held out of reach.” (Oct, Disability Debrief)
In India:
Working to work Disabled people fighting for accessible livelihoods in India:
“Despite the hurdles, disabled people continue to work the best with what we’ve got. So many of us don’t just have to contribute to the workforce but also look after ourselves and advocate for our rights to work at the same time. We’re stretching ourselves thin just to be able to secure a livelihood. The hard-won successes of working as a disabled person are bittersweet.” (Oct, Disability Debrief)
In Pakistan:
Finding my fairy-tale Travel tales by Tanzila Khan, who travels with a wheelchair and a green passport:
“I imagine myself in the stories I grew up with. I’m a modern-day Ibn Battuta traveling by wheelchair and airplane rather than camel, wagon or horse. I’m Snow White and I had to stay at the cottage because the Airbnb wasn’t accessible.” (Nov, Disability Debrief)
In Sudan:
How the war in Sudan has cast its shadow on people with disabilities. (In Arabic, Oct, AlJazeera)
In Ukraine:
Russia Targeted and Deported Disabled Children From Ukraine reporting on 84 disabled people, both children and adults, forcibly moved by Russia from the Oleshky Specialized Boarding School. (Oct, New Lines Magazine)
Disability Certificates Scandal: What Led to the Prosecutor General’s Resignation and What’s Next? In-depth report. (Oct, Kyiv Post)
In the United Kingdom:
Beyond Disability Stigma: Examining Tolerance and Intolerance toward Disability Issues:
“Recent advances from social psychology suggest that intolerance is conceptually distinct from stigma and prejudice and results from value-driven reasons to interfere with a person’s beliefs or practices that have little to do with their identity or characteristics like impairment. However, study of (in)tolerance has so far been neglected in the disability context. In this paper, we address this gap. We argue that studying disability-related (in)tolerance is crucial for understanding disability discrimination and designing interventions to combat it.” (Sep, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research)
In the United States:
Equity for Whom? An Introduction to Private Equity’s Impacts on the Disability Community:
“Private equity poses a serious and urgent threat to people with disabilities, particularly those with multiple marginalized identities. People who rely on HCBS, autism services, accessible transportation, fertility assistance, affordable housing, or power wheelchair/scooter repairs, and people who are incarcerated in prison, jail, or living in institutions such as a nursing home, residential treatment facility, or intermediate care facility, have likely been deeply impacted by private equity over the past decade. For this reason, it’s imperative that the disability community oppose this profiteering and exploitation, and resist private equity’s encroachment.” (Oct, DREDF)
American Airlines to pay record $50 million fine over its treatment of disabled passengers. As well as allegedly mishandling or damaging 1000s of wheelchairs between 2019 and 2023:
“In an investigation into the carrier, the Transportation Department said it uncovered numerous infractions, including cases of American providing "unsafe physical assistance" to passengers. The alleged treatment "at times resulted in injuries and undignified treatment of wheelchair users," the agency said in an announcement Wednesday.” (Oct, CBS News)