Disability News Library
Welcome to a fast-growing library of disability news! You can explore through the back catalogue, search, or browsing a database of news by subject or country.
Back Catalogue
Disability Debrief newsletters have been keeping up with international disability news from 2020. See the newsletter archive or browse within that:
- News: all-you-can-eat news updates.
- Features: original reporting and analysis.
- Interviews: in-depth with people making change.
- Climate Crisis: understanding the impact on disabled people.
- Personal: updates from our disabled lives.
- Community: how we do this, and what readers say.
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News Database
Since the start of 2022 all the news on Disability Debrief is in this database, which you can navigate here, by subject or country.
The database has 2759 news items, categorized into 57 subjects, across 139 countries and regions. It was last updated in April, 2023.
Subjects
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- Accessibility and Design (55)
- Ageing (30)
- Assistive Technology (46)
- Black Lives Matter and Racial justice (13)
- COVID-19 (115)
- Civil Society and Community (54)
- Climate Crisis and Environment (88)
- Communication and Language (57)
- Community Based Rehabilitation (1)
- Conflict and Peace (13)
- Culture, Entertainment and Media (147)
- Data and Research (75)
- Digital Accessibility and Technology (162)
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response (38)
- Economics and Social Protection (143)
- Education and Childhood (143)
- Employment, Business and Work (158)
- Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities (37)
- Health (98)
- History and Memorial (91)
- Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees (117)
- Indigenous People and Minority Communities (8)
- Institutions and Deinstitutionalization (48)
- International Cooperation (112)
- Justice Systems and Legal Capacity (37)
- Lived Experience and Opinion (142)
- Mental Health (46)
- Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism (79)
- Policy and Rights (142)
- Politics and Elections (57)
- Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights (64)
- Resources (7)
- Space Exploration (9)
- Sport and Paralympics (52)
- Violence and Harassment (33)
- War in Ukraine (225)
- Water and Sanitation (WASH) (17)
Countries
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- International News (713)
- Afghanistan (7)
- Africa (23)
- Albania (1)
- Americas (1)
- Argentina (4)
- Armenia (1)
- Asia-Pacific (13)
- Australia (113)
- Austria (3)
- Azerbaijan (2)
- Bahrain (1)
- Bangladesh (42)
- Belgium (3)
- Bhutan (5)
- Bosnia (1)
- Brazil (20)
- Bulgaria (3)
- Burkina Faso (1)
- Cambodia (4)
- Cameroon (6)
- Canada (54)
- Caribbean (1)
- Chile (5)
- China (26)
- Colombia (6)
- Congo-Kinshasa (1)
- Cook Islands (1)
- Cyprus (1)
- Czech Republic (3)
- Denmark (1)
- Djibouti (1)
- Dominica (1)
- East Africa (4)
- Eastern Europe and Central Asia (1)
- Egypt (12)
- Eswatini (1)
- Ethiopia (12)
- Europe (89)
- Fiji (2)
- Finland (1)
- France (12)
- Gambia (1)
- Georgia (7)
- Germany (5)
- Ghana (13)
- Greece (3)
- Guatemala (1)
- Haiti (3)
- Hungary (1)
- Iceland (3)
- India (82)
- Indonesia (20)
- Iran (2)
- Iraq (3)
- Ireland (17)
- Israel (5)
- Italy (4)
- Japan (11)
- Jordan (8)
- Kazakhstan (1)
- Kenya (50)
- Kosovo (2)
- Kuwait (3)
- Kyrgyzstan (1)
- Latin America and the Caribbean (4)
- Liberia (1)
- Libya (1)
- Madagascar (3)
- Malawi (10)
- Malaysia (10)
- Maldives (3)
- Mexico (17)
- Middle East and North Africa (8)
- Moldova (5)
- Montenegro (1)
- Mozambique (4)
- Myanmar (2)
- Nagorno-Karabakh territory (2)
- Namibia (1)
- Nepal (12)
- Netherlands (7)
- New Zealand (47)
- Niger (2)
- Nigeria (45)
- North Macedonia (2)
- Norway (8)
- Pacific (9)
- Pacific Islands (1)
- Pakistan (14)
- Palestine (2)
- Panama (1)
- Peru (3)
- Philippines (9)
- Poland (17)
- Portugal (1)
- Qatar (3)
- Romania (2)
- Russia (11)
- Rwanda (11)
- Samoa (1)
- Saudi Arabia (1)
- Senegal (4)
- Sierra Leone (5)
- Singapore (9)
- Solomon Islands (2)
- Somalia (5)
- South Africa (44)
- South Asia (3)
- South East Asia (1)
- South Korea (8)
- South Sudan (4)
- Spain (11)
- Sri Lanka (2)
- Sudan (1)
- Sweden (3)
- Switzerland (4)
- Syria (5)
- Taiwan (1)
- Tajikistan (1)
- Tanzania (5)
- Thailand (1)
- Trinidad and Tobago (1)
- Tunisia (5)
- Turkey (15)
- Uganda (26)
- Ukraine (196)
- United Arab Emirates (1)
- United Kingdom (183)
- United States (433)
- Uzbekistan (5)
- Vanuatu (4)
- Vatican City (2)
- Venezuela (1)
- Vietnam (4)
- West Africa (2)
- Western Balkans (1)
- Yemen (3)
- Zimbabwe (9)