Disability Resource Library
A catalogue covering 170+ countries
The Debrief library is a catalogue of hand-picked links to news, research and insights from around the world. It is updated on a monthly basis.
Browsing the library, you will find disabled people's stories, analysis, entertainment and research. Learn about disability around the world, and the ways it intersects with all areas of social life.
Started in 2022, the library now contains 7,786 links. The latest update was in July 2026.
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There's also a dedicated guide on climate change.
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Recent Highlights
The Weight of the House We Built. Rethinking representation of people with disabilities and the role of OPDs:
‘The CRPD provided a framework for realising “nothing about us without us”, but in doing so it also shifted the emphasis towards identifying representative organisations. In practice, this shift has reduced the broader political principle to the technical question of “what counts as an OPD?”’ (May, Disability Debrief)
In Australia:
27% of Australian students now have an adjustment for disability at school:
“There is no incentive for schools to meet children’s needs through accessible quality universal teaching – in fact, there’s a perverse incentive not to.” (May, the Conversation)
In Germany:
The legal fight to get equal pay for Germany's disabled workers. (Jun, BBC)
In the United States:
What being institutionalised taught me about resistance. And why these lessons come back as Trump attacks marginalised communities:
“It can feel like we must yield to those in power. But what the institutions of my childhood taught me is that obedience only gives permission for systems of exploitation to continue. When I had lost all other freedom, non-compliance reignited my will to survive.” (Jun, Disability Debrief)
The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Expanding Public Education for Disabled Students:
“Although this policy could have taken away resources from non-disabled students, in fact, education and employment also increased for non-disabled individuals. These effects align with evidence that the mandates increased spending per student by up to 15%. Families were also impacted: the mandates increased employment among mothers of disabled children and the probability that disabled individuals became household heads. Over the long term, the mandates paid for themselves by generating government revenues in excess of their cost.” (Apr, Arxiv)