Disability in Italy

Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people. (Feb, AP)

Shape Arts Wants You to ‘Look Up to the Power of Crip’ The exuberant history of resistance by the Disability Arts Movement gets a historic review in Venice. (2024, Frieze)

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Death toll mounts in Italy’s worst flooding for 100 years Older and disabled people trapped in homes as rescuers battle harsh conditions in Emilia-Romagna region (2023, the Guardian)

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Embracing and rejecting the medicalization of autism (2022, Social Science and Medicine)

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Disabled People under fascist rule What do we know about disability policies in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy? (2024, ENIL)

Book review of 'Disability and Tourism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy' (2023, H-Disability)

A new book on Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome. (2022, Cambridge University Press)

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Overview

How a photo of a Syrian father and son led to a new life in Italy (photo shows father and son both with physical disabilities) (2022, the Guardian)

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Migration

Disability, Rehabilitation, and Assistive Technologies for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy: Policies and Challenges. “The lack of a standardized vulnerability assessment represents the main barrier to the organization of specific services for migrants within the community.” (2023, Societies)

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Conditions in Institutions

Controversy over institutions and whether “residences” can be considered “housing models”. (In Italian, 2025, Centro Gabriele and Lorenzo Giuntinelli)

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Armenia, Italy sign memorandum of cooperation in protection of people with disabilities. (2025, Arm Info)

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Lack of financial and social support to family of people with disabilities amounted to human rights violation, according to the UN committee on rights of persons with disabilities. (2022, UNRIC)

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Assisted Dying and Euthanasia

First assisted suicide with an eye-activated device made by the CNR. (Mar, Il Sole)

‘Don’t kill me’: Empty wheelchairs dramatize campaign against assisted suicide in Italy. (2025, Catholic News Agency)

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The Paralympic Village Was Proof That Truly Accessible Cities Can and Should Exist. (Mar, Teen Vogue)

Italian sprinter set to be first transgender Paralympian. (2024, BBC) See also resulting controversy.

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Shadow Report on combating violence against women. (Link to pdf, 2024, Italian Disability Forum)

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