Accessibility and Design

International News

The Dangers of Fake Accessibility Efforts Why Performative Accessibility Harms Progress. (Apr, The Accessible Link)

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Ageing

International News

‘Living — and dying — with dignity are both important’ Luis Gallegos, a senior advisor on disability rights, is leading the push for a UN convention on the rights of older people. (Mar, Harvard Law Today)

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Assistive Technology

Indonesia

A good friend of mine. Falling in love with assistive technology in Indonesia. (Apr, Disability Debrief)

United States

Why Are Doctors Reluctant to Recommend Mobility Aids? Reflections and findings from related studies. (Mar, Pain News Network)

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COVID-19

Impact

India

“There is no money to survive”: Long COVID pushes India’s marginalized workers deeper into poverty. (Mar, The Sick Times)

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Civil Society and Community

New Zealand

One year since our lives became smaller. The anniversary of cuts to disability services:

“The Government has a vested interest in making us seem like a smaller, overly-entitled community. It will justify continued under-investment in our lives, which we are being punished for. The question now is how to respond.” (Mar, The D*List)

Saudi Arabia

Mecca Grand Mosque enhances accessibility for elderly & people of determination during Ramadan. (Mar, Gulf News)

Spain

Just Like You Campaign for World Down Syndrome Day. (Short video, Mar, Down España)

United Kingdom

Disability groups consider ‘step back’ from government, over proposed benefit cuts. (Apr, BBC)

United States

For Some Disabled Protestors, “Hands Off” Went Virtual. “We know we have to teach everyone how to include us.” (Apr, Mother Jones)

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Climate Crisis and Environment

South Sudan

Overlooked “People with disabilities are overwhelmingly left out of climate-disaster response plans. These activists want to change that.” (Earth Island Journal)

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Communication and Language

Sign Languages

New Zealand

How Deaf teacher Phillip King runs his primary school classroom “King was born Deaf and uses New Zealand Sign Language full-time, leading the primary school class using every tool in his kit that is not the spoken word.” (Mar, RNZ)

United Kingdom

All hands on deck: rewilding British Sign Language. “A group of deaf scientists and educators have created 400 British Sign Language signs related to environmental science”. (Mar, Positive.News)

Braille

International News

A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers. (Mar, MIT News)

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Conflict and Peace

Israel-Palestine Conflict

Israel

Released hostages to receive full disability rights:

“Following the struggle for full recognition from the government for former hostages as victims of hostilities, Israeli authorities announced that every released hostage would be automatically entitled to the rights of an IDF disabled veteran or victim of hostile actions, with a 100% disability rating, as well as lifetime medical treatment.” (Mar, The Jerusalem Post)

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Culture, Entertainment and Media

Overview

International News

The Pod Access Connecting d/Deaf and disabled podcasters with their audiences. (Pod Access)

India

Photography winners with disabilities show the world their perspective. (Mar, NPR)

Japan

Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback “is a captivating short novella that follows the life of Shaka, a severely disabled woman who lives in a care home near Tokyo”. (Mar)

United Kingdom

The art of blind photography and finding your own style:

“I realise this isn’t the ‘normal’ way to take photos; most photographers see beforehand what they want to shoot. But for me, the selection process afterwards is where the art of photography comes alive. I may take a hundred photos, and keep only a dozen, but I use my former art education and experience to choose the images that express my creative ideas best.” (Mar, Disability Horizons)

TV and Film

India

Ziddi Girls gets disability right. “Ziddi Girls is not a show about disability. It is a coming-of-age show. The audience isn't even told why Wallika is in a wheelchair. It’s perfect.” (Mar, ThePrint)

Media

International News

Bringing disability history into a media classroom Jason Strother on teaching disability representation in the media, opportunities, and media recommendations. (Mar, Reframing Disability)

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Data and Research

Research

International News

The Disabled Anthropology an edited collection:

“The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on which these chapters focus have refused erasure from a profession that would ignore their critiques and creativity.” (Routledge)

Global Research Agenda For Children with Disabilities “The Global Research Agenda for Children with Disabilities provides a clear framework for strengthening disability-inclusive research worldwide.” (UNICEF)

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Digital Accessibility and Technology

Overview

International News

Inclusive typefaces that we know and love. What makes a typeface accessible, and why making informed choices is so tough. (Mar, The Accessibility Apprentice)

United States

Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners: “some barriers are worse than others”. (Mar, Eric Bailey)

Artificial Intelligence

Europe

Including persons with disabilities in the development of new technologies and AI European Economic and Social Committee opinion on the possibilities, challenges, risks and opportunities. (Apr, EESC)

United States

Building A Disability-Inclusive AI Ecosystem: A Cross-Disability, Cross-Systems Analysis Of Best Practices. Specific recommendations across employment, education, benefits, healthcare and other sectors. (Mar, CDT)

Online Accessibility

International News

A tool's errand. Web accessibility tools and discussion of the access criteria they cannot check. (Mar, HTML Accessibility)

Europe

Disabled people less likely to be internet users:

“In 2024, 78.2% of people in the EU aged 16-74 with severe disability used the internet regularly (having used the internet at least once a week during the previous 3 months). Among those with moderate disability the share was 86% and it was 93.5% for those without disability.” (Mar, Eurostat)

Social Media

International News

People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes. One of the most notable had 148,000 followers on Instagram. (Mar, TechCrawlr)

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response

International News

An Introduction to Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction a collection. (Routledge)

United States

EMprints:

“An illustrative initiative that reimagines safety, solidarity and survival during crises and emergencies. EMprints are a series of coloring pages, journal pages and activity pages. Each page is an offering of soft space to ponder our own personal and collective preparedness.” (Feb, Justice Shorter)

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Economics and Social Protection

Overview

Australia

2025–26 Federal Budget: DANA, along with other Disability Representative Organisations, have called it out: “People with disability are invisible in this Budget.” (Mar, Disability Advocacy Network Australia)

Ireland

Disabled households forced to spend majority of disposable income on disability:

“The study finds that households with a disabled member have a lower standard of living than those without. In income terms, the cost of disability is estimated to be 52-59% of disposable income for disabled households. [...] For households with a member who has severe limitations, the cost of disability can be as high as 93% of their disposable income.” (Mar, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission)

Financial Inclusion

International News

Implementing Inclusive Design Principles in Banking Organizations. A Practical Guide to Designing for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities. (2024, Asian Development Bank)

Breaking Down Barriers. A guide on making Banking Accessible for Employees and Customers with Disabilities. (2024, Asian Development Bank)

Social Protection

Argentina

Behind the offense is abandonment. On the new criteria for allocation of disability pensions:

“The reconfiguration of disability assistance policies under a rationale of austerity and administrative efficiency jeopardizes the progress made in terms of recognition and guarantee of rights.” (In Spanish, Feb, La Vanguardia)

New Zealand

Cuts to Disability Services Are Part of a Class War “It is the deliberate policy of a government which is advancing the interests of the top 1% at the expense of the 99%.” (Mar, Elliot's Substack)

United States

AAPD and Disability Advocates Sue Social Security Administration and DOGE to Stop Unlawful Cuts to Social Security Services:

“The Social Security Administration is being gutted without regard to existing law, without transparency, and without any obvious plan as to how services will be provided to applicants and beneficiaries going forward,” said Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind. (Apr, AAPD)

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Education and Childhood

Overview

International News

Educating children with disabilities: Addressing the unfinished agenda. Reflections a decade later:

“While school attendance in low- and middle in-come countries for children with disabilities has increased, challenges within schools in relation to regular attendance, progression, attainment, and social inclusion remain. Transitions across different levels of the education system and into future employment also remain of concern, and the economic and social fallout of exclusion is high.” (Apr, World Bank)

Beyond Access: Ensuring the Continuity of Education for Adolescent Girls with Disabilities. A factsheet based on study in Nepal, Rwanda and Senegal. (Jan, Humanity & Inclusion)

Global Research Agenda For Children with Disabilities “The Global Research Agenda for Children with Disabilities provides a clear framework for strengthening disability-inclusive research worldwide.” (UNICEF)

Argentina

“Political leadership should listen more” feature on the advocate who guaranteed that children with disabilities cannot be rejected by private mainstream schools. (In Spanish, Mar, La Nacion)

Germany

The choices are not equal. Raúl Krauthausen challenges segregation of disabled people in Germany: in education, work and housing. (Mar, Disability Debrief)

New Zealand

How Deaf teacher Phillip King runs his primary school classroom “King was born Deaf and uses New Zealand Sign Language full-time, leading the primary school class using every tool in his kit that is not the spoken word.” (Mar, RNZ)

United Kingdom

Autistic 12-year-old 'brutally' restrained in school calming room. (Apr, BBC)

United States

DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is 'devastated'. (Apr, NPR)

Higher Education

New Zealand

When is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ going to reach academia? “Imagine a world where students didn’t have to read between the lines to figure out whether their disability studies lecturer has lived experience.” (Mar, The D*List)

United States

Former Gallaudet Employee Speaks Out Against “Deceitful, Fanciful Thinking” in University’s Response to DoEd Layoffs. (Mar, Disability Rights Watch)

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Employment, Business and Work

International News

Three Reasons Why Disability Adjustments And Productivity Are The Same Thing. (Apr, Forbes)

Everyone Wins a Balloon: The Business Value of Workplace Adjustment Management, and 12 Critical Success Factors. (Scott-Parker International)

Germany

The choices are not equal. Raúl Krauthausen challenges segregation of disabled people in Germany: in education, work and housing. (Mar, Disability Debrief)

Tanzania

Tanzania launches National Business and Disability Network to champion workplace inclusion. (Mar, ILO)

Ukraine

Livelihoods and access to the labour market in the context of the war in Ukraine. A survey highlighting barriers to employment: “low salaries, employer stigma, lack of accessible transportation, and vacancies for remote work.” (Feb, League of the Strong)

United Kingdom

Disability workforce and pay gap reporting “Our research found that mandatory disability workforce and pay gap reporting can have many unintended consequences for disabled employees.” (Apr, Business Disability Forum)

Jobs fears as Access to Work disability scheme owes businesses thousands. (Apr, BBC)

Beyond the Office? How remote and hybrid working can help close the disability employment gap. (Mar, Lancaster University)

The Disability Pay Gap Within and Across Firms

“Our findings indicate that the distribution of disabled and non-disabled employees across firms acts to reinforce within-firm disability-related pay inequality in England and Wales. However, both the disability pay gap and unexplained disability pay gap predominately exist within rather than between firms, supporting the introduction of employer disability pay gap reporting in the UK.” (Feb, IZA)

United States

Charlotte’s friends with Down syndrome are paid $3 an hour. “Down Syndrome Australia launches campaign to encourage politicians to abolish subminimum wage” (Mar, the Guardian)

How People with Disabilities Helped Win World War II. “Over three million people with disabilities joined the war effort on the homefront, playing a crucial role in wartime production.” (Mar, PBS)

The Intersection of Technology, Disability Rights and Worker Rights A study on how disabled workers are impacted by new technologies in the workplace. (Feb, NDI and New Disabled South)

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Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities

United Kingdom

‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women. (Apr, the Guardian)

Disparities in maternity care for disabled women. (Jan, Missing Billion)

United States

How the Disability and LGBTQI+ Communities Intersect:

“The fight for the civil rights and bodily autonomy of the U.S. disability and LGBTQI+ communities are intertwined—and it is more important than ever for them to remain united as nondiscrimination protections in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are under attack.” (Mar, Center for American Progress)

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Health

Overview

United Kingdom

Disparities in maternity care for disabled women. (Jan, Missing Billion)

United States

Why Are Doctors Reluctant to Recommend Mobility Aids? Reflections and findings from related studies. (Mar, Pain News Network)

Rehabilitation

Tajikistan

A situation assessment of rehabilitation in Tajikistan:

“While the country retains many Soviet-era legacy systems and terminology in the rehabilitation sector, it is striving to integrate progressive and contemporary approaches used in rehabilitation education, training and treatment interventions.” (WHO)

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History and Memorial

Japan

Obituary for Shoji Nakanishi. ‘Shoji founded Japan's first Independent Living Center, “Human Care Association,” in Hachioji, Tokyo, in 1986.’ (Apr, Disabled Peoples’ International Asia Pacific)

United Kingdom

Review of A History of Disability in England: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day, “a general introduction to a thousand years of the history of disability in England. (Apr, H-Disability)

United States

In Memory of Rud Turnbull: Changing the Course of History for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

“All parents need to be prepared to fight for their children, but parents of children with disabilities need to be even more prepared to fight for their rights.” (Mar, Inclusive Development Partners)

How People with Disabilities Helped Win World War II. “Over three million people with disabilities joined the war effort on the homefront, playing a crucial role in wartime production.” (Mar, PBS)

Review of California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970. “Taking California as a case study, it shows how the intersections of disability, politics, and activism shaped the lived experiences of Americans with disabilities for 120 years.” (Mar, H-Disability)

Change, Not Charity: A documentary on the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Mar, PBS)

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Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees

Migration

United States

The Last beacon of Hope Is Failing Refugees With Disabilities.

“Our work to ensure that forcibly displaced people with disabilities have equal access to pathways to safety and lasting refuge has never been easy, but since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, it has become nearly impossible.” (Apr, Common Dreams)

Asylum-seeker sent to Salvadoran mega-prison over autism awareness tattoo, family says. (Apr, NBC News)

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Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization

Overview

Germany

The choices are not equal. Raúl Krauthausen challenges segregation of disabled people in Germany: in education, work and housing. (Mar, Disability Debrief)

Ukraine

Attitudes towards assisted living a survey: “The majority of respondents (75%) do not know anything about assisted living.” (Feb, League of the Strong)

United States

Sweeping HHS Cuts Will Put Disabled and Older Americans’ Right to Live in Their Communities at Risk. (Apr, Urban Wire)

Private equity firms are increasingly buying disability care centers:

“Although the disability care industry has historically been dominated by nonprofit and faith-based organizations, private equity firms made over 1,000 acquisitions of disability and elder care providers between 2013 and 2023”. (Mar, Healthcare Drive)

Conditions in Institutions

Czechia

Autism-Europe files collective complaint against Czechia before the Council of Europe:

“The complaint argues that the Czech Republic to this day chooses to house people with disabilities in institutions, instead of enabling them to live independently. It also alleges that the state fails to provide adequate social care services for autistic people and/or people with intellectual disabilities and does not provide sufficient support to informal caregivers.” (Mar, Autism Europe)

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International Cooperation

Overview

International News

Coming together as we fall apart Was the Global Disability Summit a Goodbye?

“The summit was a stocktake of worldwide progress made on disability rights in the past twenty years. And it was full of promises, meant to be the next step in taking that progress forward. But the event also demonstrated how governments focus selectively on only some areas of disability rights, and how marginalized groups get left off the agenda.” (Apr, Disability Debrief)

Conference Accessibility a practical guide for event organizers. (Mar, Zero Project)

Preconditions for inclusion a guide to “essential elements that must be established to create an enabling environment for people with disabilities”. (Mar, CBM Global Inclusion Advisory Group and Pacific Disability Forum)

Disability in GEDSI analysis: “This quick reference guide is for Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) advisors and development practitioners who are undertaking GEDSI analysis and looking to ensure that disability equity and rights are adequately addressed.” (Mar, CBM Global Inclusion Advisory Group)

Malawi

The Toll of Unexpected Job Loss: a blind man shares the story of losing his job due to USAID cuts. (Mar, Inclusive Development Partners)

United States

An Urgent Call to Action: Defending the Rights, Contributions, and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities:

“Global leadership in disability rights is not just about funding; it is about values, stability, democracy, and economic progress. Abandoning leadership in disability rights would mean abandoning these very principles and jeopardizing decades of hard-won progress, not just in the U.S. but across the world.” (Apr, Co-signed by 138 organisations)

Ford Foundation Announces $15 Million Commitment to Advance Global Disability Rights, and targets 25% of all funding to be inclusive of people with disabilities by 2027. (Apr, Ford Foundation)

Global Disability Summit

International News

Civil Society Forum Declaration

“We stand at a tipping point: civic space is increasingly restricted, international cooperation funding is declining, and yet global crises - from conflict to climate to pandemics - require bold, inclusive responses. Persons with disabilities must not be left behind again.” (Apr, Global Disability Summit)

The Summit Concludes, the Work Continues a recap of the summit, from the organizers. (Apr, Global Disability Summit)

What Happened at the 2025 Global Disability Summit — and What Needs to Happen Next. (Apr, Global Citizen)

Recovering our dreams A dispatch from the Global Disability Summit:

“It's a big group of people who have something important in common: the desire for a better world for disabled people. There's something special about being surrounded by so many pushing in the same direction.” (Apr, Disability Debrief)

Coming together as we fall apart Was the Global Disability Summit a Goodbye?

“The summit was a stocktake of worldwide progress made on disability rights in the past twenty years. And it was full of promises, meant to be the next step in taking that progress forward. But the event also demonstrated how governments focus selectively on only some areas of disability rights, and how marginalized groups get left off the agenda.” (Apr, Disability Debrief)

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Justice Systems and Legal Capacity

New Zealand

Police, mental health staff, misidentify an 11yo non-speaking autistic child and handcuff her and inject her with anti-psychotics. (Mar, Dr Bex on Social Issues in Aotearoa NZ)

United States

Disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies.

“An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said”. (Apr, NPR)

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Lived Experience and Opinion

United Kingdom

‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women. (Apr, the Guardian)

I can’t go everywhere my daughter goes – and it’s heartbreaking. “For disabled parents, the built environment can be inaccessible – but we are showing that there are countless ways to have bodies and minds” (Apr, the Guardian)

The Joy of Being Disabled five stories from people who are proud and happy to be disabled, told through video, photos and writing. One is Amy Kavanagh on parenting:

“The truth is, my blindness does impact my ability to parent, but not because I can’t see. It impacts me when other mothers won’t sit next to us at playgroups. It impacts me when the librarians gossip, talking about us as I use my residual vision to read you the large print in ‘That’s Not My Dinosaur’. It impacts me when they try to turn us away from soft play because of Ava.” (Mar, Wellcome Collection)

United States

Disabled Person Whose Accommodations Would Improve Quality of Life for Entire Population Accused of Hating Nondisabled People. (Apr, The Squeaky Wheel)

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Mental Health

International News

New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies:

“Momentum is growing globally for rights-based, person-centered, and recovery-oriented mental health policies and action plans, ensuring equitable access to quality services within Universal Health Coverage (UHC).” (Mar, WHO)

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Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism

United Kingdom

Access denied: rights versus reality in disabled people's access to transport:

“An unreasonable burden is currently placed on disabled people themselves in holding transport operators and authorities to account for fulfilling their duties.” (Mar, UK Parliament)

United States

How Blind Travelers Navigate the Globe:

‘Minkara sees her blindness as a motivator to engage more deeply with the places she visits. “We live in the age of Instagram,” she said. “People are always snapping pictures, posting shots of a mountain—but what differentiates one mountain from another? Honestly, it’s the stories.”’ (Mar, Travel + Leisure)

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Policy and Rights

Overview

International News

Rethinking Disability Law: Theoretical Limitations and Transformative Possibilities:

“What if, instead of seeing justice as something secured through the state, we considered how it might be built through solidarity, interdependence, and shared responsibility? Might different legal architectures emerge – ones that rethink power, community, and care?” (Mar, Angharad E. Beckett)

Inequality in Life and Death a global study on the duty to Investigate and Remedy the Systemic Causes of the Deaths of Persons with Disabilities under International Law:

“How one ends one's life is just as telling as how one has lived it. For it is in death that we can see the cumulative impact of deprivations that, over time, affect mortality.” (IDA)

Africa

This is war Fighting back against the violence faced by people with albinism:

‘We are fighting against extreme forms of exclusion and discrimination. “War” is the most apt description where one is being hunted and killed simply for having the genetic condition of albinism. I understand that this is strong language, but I see myself as a frontline soldier. The main weapons on our side of this unconventional warfare are the human rights frameworks, combined with strategic advocacy, doggedness, and integrity.’ (Mar, Disability Debrief)

Canada

“Do Better” Inclusion Canada Welcomes UN Committee’s Concluding Observations on Canada’s Disability Rights Record:

‘Canada has been directed to repeal Track 2 medical assistance in dying (MAiD), raise the “woefully inadequate” Canada Disability Benefit rate, and address regional disparities in how the CRPD is applied.’ (Mar, Inclusion Canada)

France

Freedom, equality, accessibility. Reflections on France's relationship with disability: “a love story between big ambitions and small achievements”. (Mar, Couper L'Herbe Sous Les Roues)

Kyrgyzstan

Special Rapporteur's visit to Kyrgyzstan:

‘highlighting positive steps taken through legislation, policy and other measures to improve the situation of persons with disabilities, including the adoption of the “Accessible Country” programme (2023), provisions on inclusive education in the new Law on Education (2023) and increases in cash disability benefits. The Special Rapporteur suggests that a more ambitious agenda should be set, starting with the repeal of legal provisions and practices, including legal incapacitation, institutionalization and segregation in education that openly contradict the Convention, and the introduction of a new law on the rights of persons with disabilities.’ (Apr, UN)

Nigeria

Alternative Report on the Human Rights situations of Persons with albinism. (Feb, Africa Albinism Network)

Switzerland

The Swiss concern a look at inclusion in Switzerland: “an excellent healthcare system (so much the better, because the rest is enough to break a leg)”. (In French, Mar, Couper L'Herbe Sous les Roues)

Ukraine

Situational Analysis on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine:

“The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has amplified the vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities, intensifying existing inequalities and creating new barriers. Systemic gaps in addressing their rights and needs have been highlighted, underscoring the urgent need for coordinated and inclusive action. While notable progress has been made, significant challenges remain in ensuring that the voices and needs of persons with disabilities are prioritized in recovery and development efforts.” (Mar, Global Disability Fund)

United States

The ADA Is Turning 35 —And It’s in Trump’s Crosshairs. (Mar, Mother Jones)

Assisted Dying and Euthanasia

United States

Medical Assistance in Dying Report “Highlights critical concerns about the ethical, legal, and social implications of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)” (2024, Center for Racial & Disability Justice)

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Politics and Elections

France

MP Sébastien Peytavie threatened by neo-Nazi website “A racist and xenophobic blog threatened the elected official, referring to Action T4, a program to exterminate the disabled under the Third Reich.” (In French, Apr, Libération)

Nigeria

“[Voters] feel we are not worth it... that a [person with albinism] cannot deliver anything”. (Mar, Minority Africa)

United States

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone:

“Leaving disabled people behind is not new to the American political landscape; the US has a history of eradicating the disabled.” (Apr, the Guardian)

Then They Came for People With Disabilities The right-wing effort to roll back civil rights finds a new target. (Apr, Intelligencer)

RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets. We Asked an Autistic Poet. “I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week.” (Apr, Mother Jones)

Dismantling Disability Rights: How the HHS Reorganization Threatens Generations of Progress. (Apr, Center for Racial and Disability Justice)

Democrats Launch Inquiry Into Dismantling of Administration for Community Living. (Apr, Mother Jones)

Kennedy Claimed Autism ‘Destroys’ Lives. Autistic People Disagree: “People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma.” (Apr, New York Times)

Texas v. Becerra Threatens to Undo Protections for Disabled People in Order to Target Trans Kids. (Apr, Teen Vogue)

The Eugenics Logic Behind Running a Government Like a Startup. “Startups are built on expendability.” And:

“Surreally enough, the current administration appears to have taken intersectionality to heart, albeit in the most perverse way possible: their assault on anti-racism efforts, trans rights, disability accessibility, and feminism—and far more besides—is not merely simultaneous but intertwined.” (Mar, Disability Visibility Project)

How the Disability and LGBTQI+ Communities Intersect:

“The fight for the civil rights and bodily autonomy of the U.S. disability and LGBTQI+ communities are intertwined—and it is more important than ever for them to remain united as nondiscrimination protections in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are under attack.” (Mar, Center for American Progress)

The DOGE Data Breach A Silent Coup on U.S. Agencies:

“The consequences of this unprecedented federal data breach are far-reaching, disproportionately affecting disabled people and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities across economic, healthcare, civil rights, and national security spheres. By gaining access to critical government systems, DOGE has positioned itself to reshape policies, reallocate resources, and restrict public oversight, leading to devastating consequences for these historically marginalized groups.” (Feb, Center for Racial & Disability Justice)

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Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights

United Kingdom

Disparities in maternity care for disabled women. (Jan, Missing Billion)

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Sport and Paralympics

South Africa

Surf therapy for children with disabilities: how it’s changing lives in South Africa. (Mar, The Conversation)

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Violence and Harassment

Africa

This is war Fighting back against the violence faced by people with albinism:

‘We are fighting against extreme forms of exclusion and discrimination. “War” is the most apt description where one is being hunted and killed simply for having the genetic condition of albinism. I understand that this is strong language, but I see myself as a frontline soldier. The main weapons on our side of this unconventional warfare are the human rights frameworks, combined with strategic advocacy, doggedness, and integrity.’ (Mar, Disability Debrief)

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War in Ukraine

Situation in Ukraine

Ukraine

"We Are Here Too": The Voices and Realities of Ukrainians with Intellectual Disabilities. (Mar, EDF)

Response and Resources

Moldova

Moldova: Disability Task Force Disability Briefing Note. (Mar, UNHCR)

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