Disability news, April 2026, by country

International News

In Accessibility and Design:

Universal Accessibility Toolbox: “a comprehensive resource designed to support the integration of UA into infrastructure projects across the following key sectors – urban development, disaster risk management, transport, water, and digital development.” (Feb, World Bank)

In Civil Society and Community:

Disability Focused Proms To Be Held Across Globe.

‘Over 950 churches in all 50 states and more than 70 countries are hosting the events this Friday as part of “Night to Shine,” an annual series of proms put on by the Tim Tebow Foundation.’ (Feb, Disability Scoop)

In Climate Crisis and Environment:

Who Gets to Shape the Future? A historic win for persons with disabilities: reflections on the formal recognition of the Disability Caucus within the UNFCCC. (Mar, Portal Psiloba)

In Culture, Entertainment and Media:

Made by humans, for humans. Why Disability Debrief doesn’t use AI (and when it does):

‘I think the wider disability community needs to be cautious too. Sharing our lived experience is an essential part of our advocacy, and if we undermine it with reckless use of AI tools, we undermine our mantra of “nothing about us without us”.’ (Apr, Disability Debrief)

The Global Directory of Disabled News Media Professionals. (Reframing Disability)

In Digital Accessibility and Technology:

Made by humans, for humans. Why Disability Debrief doesn’t use AI (and when it does):

‘I think the wider disability community needs to be cautious too. Sharing our lived experience is an essential part of our advocacy, and if we undermine it with reckless use of AI tools, we undermine our mantra of “nothing about us without us”.’ (Apr, Disability Debrief)

Instagram investigating AI profiles 'fetishising' disabled people. (Feb, BBC)

In Health:

Separating disability stigma from health stigma: implications for health and rehabilitation research and practice. (Apr, Disability and Rehabilitation)

Road Traffic Accidents and Disability: A global health concern:

“When asked why they had not previously considered people disabled in an RTA, the Road Traffic Safety experts interviewed reported assuming some disability organization, government program or medical service would be there to help. Disability experts had not considered the psychological, social and economic implications of being faced with sudden catastrophic disability and assumed that their experiences were no different than that of people disabled through other causes.” (Social Science & Medicine)

In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:

Humanitarian Reset and Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) meeting – Summary Report. (Mar, Disability Reference Group)

Experiences of Asian mothers of children with disability who migrated to Western countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies. (Jan, Disability and Rehabilitation)

In International Cooperation:

Building Disability-Inclusive Futures a special issue dedicated to insights and lessons from international programmes on disability. (Mar, IDS Bulletin)

In Lived Experience and Opinion:

How do I know if I'm being used? Advice on ableism, friendship and mobility aids from an Agony Aunt in Agony. (Apr, Disability Debrief)

In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:

People with Disabilities and Transport Access: “Provisions to ensure transport access must be integrated systematically into the design and implementation of disability-inclusive development programmes”. (IDS Bulletin)

Airbus Wheelchair Securement System Becomes First to Fly. (Apr, Wheelchair Travel)

First Look: Airplane Lavatory with Adult Changing Table. (Apr, Wheelchair Travel)

In Sport and Paralympics:

Winter Para Sport Explainers. Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games. (Animated video, Mar, Channel 4 Sport)

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Angola

In Sport and Paralympics:

Wheelchair basketball: absence of the public takes the shine off the competition. (In Portuguese, Mar, Jornal de Angola)

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Egypt

In Policy and Rights:

Details of the National Strategy for Empowering Persons with Disabilities 2026-2030. (In Arabic, Mar, Youm7)

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Ethiopia

In Accessibility and Design:

Rights on Paper, Barriers in Practice: Inside Ethiopia’s broken housing registration system for persons with disabilities. (Mar, Addis Standard)

In Health:

Inequalities in health and healthcare utilization among people with disabilities in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2021/2022 Ethiopian Socio-Economic Panel Survey:

“People with disabilities in Ethiopia had greater healthcare needs than people without disabilities, which were not fully matched by increased levels of healthcare utilization, and they incurred higher healthcare costs, indicating systemic inequalities in health.” (Feb, Disability and Rehabilitation)

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Morocco

In Accessibility and Design:

Only 25% of Moroccan public administrations are inclusive, according to a new study:

“barely 26% of public administrations have a regulatory framework or formalized guidelines governing the accessibility of services for people with disabilities. Furthermore, basic equipment, particularly adapted sanitary facilities and accessible signage, remains insufficient, especially near the main entrances of administrative buildings.” (In French, Mar, le360)

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South Sudan

In Education and Childhood:

Accessible learning for all: first inclusive education hub opens in South Sudan. (Mar, Light for the World International)

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Tanzania

In Economics and Social Protection:

Impacts of the “Ujana Salama” Cash Plus Program Across Multiple Domains of Well-Being for Adolescents With and Without Disability: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Tanzania:

“For adolescents with disabilities, this expanded intervention increased their participation in farm work and reduced experiences of sexual violence and showed some positive trends toward improving self-rated health.” (Mar, Journal of Adolescent Health)

Impacts of the “Ujana Salama” Cash Plus programme on well-being for adolescents with and without disability, an evidence brief. (Feb, LSHTM)

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Zambia

In Economics and Social Protection:

Disability budget analysis in Zambia. “Zambia has made important progress in increasing public expenditure on disability inclusion in recent years.” (Feb, UNICEF)

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Zimbabwe

In Civil Society and Community:

Disability, spirituality and the politics of belonging in postcolonial Zimbabwe. “The study concludes that belonging and belongingness of PWD should be within the grassroots movements and Ubuntu ethics, which encourage humaneness.” (Jan, African Journal of Disability)

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Bangladesh

In Climate Crisis and Environment:

Extreme weather and sanitation in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods study of lived experiences of people with disabilities:

“When I was going to the latrine with my crutch, my leg slipped, and I fell in the mud. Then, there was a brick on the ground, and my amputated leg side fell on that brick. I cut the upper part of the amputated leg, and blood came out. I used a plastic pot for my toileting at that time, and my mother or wife cleaned it after defecation and urination.” (Apr, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia)

In Politics and Elections:

Will disability rights be finally delivered? “BNP’s election manifesto—specifically pledging to advance disability rights and the existing legislation about disability—signals hope.” (Mar, The Daily Star)

In Water and Sanitation (WASH):

Extreme weather and sanitation in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods study of lived experiences of people with disabilities:

“When I was going to the latrine with my crutch, my leg slipped, and I fell in the mud. Then, there was a brick on the ground, and my amputated leg side fell on that brick. I cut the upper part of the amputated leg, and blood came out. I used a plastic pot for my toileting at that time, and my mother or wife cleaned it after defecation and urination.” (Apr, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia)

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India

In Policy and Rights:

All you need to know about: passive euthanasia. The principles of passive euthanasia have been practically applied by the apex court for the first time. (Mar, The Hindu)

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Indonesia

In Education and Childhood:

Survey of Lecturers with Disabilities Reveals Indonesian Campuses Are Still Far from Inclusive. (Feb, Universitas Gadjah Mada)

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Iran

In Civil Society and Community:

Escalation of State Killings, under Torture and Executions including of Hossein Ghavi, a person with a physical disability. (Apr, Iran HRM)

In Conflict and Peace:

We are never meant to run: Disabled people during the Iran war:

“For instance, on March 10, air strikes in Alborz Province heavily damaged a residential facility that housed 80 children (under 14) with learning disabilities. All children had to be transferred to other centres. On March 12, a specialist hospital for disabled people in Ahvaz was damaged due to an airstrike on the nearby buildings. According to the State Welfare Organisation of Iran (the government agency in charge of disability support services), so far, 30,000 households with disabled people have been directly impacted, 41 homes have been completely destroyed and 915 homes have sustained damage, with the extent of the damage ranging from 5% to 50%. Two disabled people in State care have died in Ilam Province in western Iran.” (Mar, The D*List)

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Japan

In Sport and Paralympics:

Tokyo Deaflympics 2025 leaves lasting boost for accessible tourism. “Tokyo is gradually becoming more accessible, with major hotels, museums and transportation hubs introducing visual alert systems, such as vibration alarms, and staff receiving basic sign language training.” (Feb, TTG Asia)

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Lebanon

In Conflict and Peace:

The ordeal of displaced people with disabilities. “We used to live like kings in our homes. Our lives have become a living hell.” (In French, Apr, Handicap.fr)

In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:

Protection Sector Weekly Response Sitrep. Features the work of the Friends of the Disabled Association:

“In the context of Lebanon’s ongoing crisis, FDA has expanded its emergency response to assist displaced persons with disabilities and their families by providing shelter, rehabilitation services, psychosocial support, and coordination with humanitarian actors to ensure access to assistive devices and specialized care. Since the onset of the emergency, FDA hosts 18 displaced families (60 individuals, including 11 persons with disabilities).” (Apr, Relief Web)

Disability Emergency Checklist “essential guidelines and outlining the minimum standards that must be ensured in any emergency situation in Lebanon.” (Mar, Disability Hub)

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Myanmar

In Conflict and Peace:

‘Everything Has Gone Back’: How Myanmar’s 2021 Military Coup Reversed Hard-Won Disability Reforms and Pushed Advocates Underground. (Feb, Disability Justice Project)

In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:

“Work with us, from the start”: what inclusive recovery means for women with disabilities in Myanmar, after the 2025 earthquake. (Apr, UN Women)

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Palestine

In Assistive Technology:

Gaza's war amputees short of prostheses under Israeli restrictions. (Apr, Reuters)

In Conflict and Peace:

Gaza’s Amputation Crisis Deepens Amid Prosthetics Shortage:

“The prosthetics sector inside Gaza is under immense pressure. Only nine prosthetists are currently active in the territory, one of them working for Humanity & Inclusion. This is far below what is needed to meet demand. Restrictions on the entry of international specialists have further limited technical support and training for local teams.” (Apr, Humanity & Inclusion)

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South Korea

In Health:

Disability inclusion in health data systems and policy in Korea: time for action:

“In Korea, despite having a well-established administrative infrastructure—most notably the Korean National Disability Registration System—disability-inclusive health data remain limited.” (Jan, Health Affairs Scholar)

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Europe

In Data and Research:

Living with disability in Europe: what open data shows:

“People with disabilities are more exposed to poverty and less likely to be employed, but higher public spending does not always translate into better outcomes.” (Feb, data.europa.eu)

In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:

Gender Mainstreaming Package: Gender Equality must be part of every aspect of our movement. (Mar, EDF)

A Crip and Lesbian Perspective on Disability Rights: New EL*C Research Report:

“The persistent marginalisation documented in this report does not merely point to a lack of legal standards, but rather to the need for a more consistent, intersectional and transformative interpretation of existing ones. Strengthening this reading of the CRPD requires not only action at the national level, but also supportive and coherent policy engagement at the EU level, particularly to enhance how gender mainstreaming is applied within disability policies and how disability perspectives are integrated within broader gender, LGBTIQ and equality frameworks” (EuroCentralAsian Lesbian Community)

In Mental Health:

Report: Rethink To Rebuild: Towards Rights-Based and Gender-Just Mental Health Systems in Europe. (Mar, Mental Health Europe)

In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:

Dear Vueling: A Broken Wheelchair Demands Accountability—Not a Look Under My Skirt. (Apr, Tanzila Khan)

In Policy and Rights:

Three great reasons to create the European Agency for Accessibility. (Mar, EDF)

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Austria

In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:

Nuns who broke back into their Austrian convent ‘are step closer to being able to stay’. (Apr, the Guardian)

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France

In Communication and Language:

Publishing of braille books threatened in France. (In French, Feb, Handicap.fr)

In Lived Experience and Opinion:

Nihal, Child of the Moon: how she lives with extreme UV sensitivity. (Mar, the Guardian)

In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:

Disability, intimacy, emotional and sexual life: a government plan lacking scope and boldness. (In France, Feb, APF France Handicap)

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Germany

In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:

Will There Be No More Disabled Children Born In The Future? “Until a 1995 reform, in Germany, it was allowed to abort a fetus purely because of a diagnosed disability. The law was repealed, but in practice, not much has changed.” (2025, Global Disability News Network)

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Greece

In History and Memorial:

Disassembled Cyborgs: Interpreting Cretan Warriorhood and War Booty through Disability Theory with Jesse Obert:

“As a heuristic device, the cyborg works well for ancient Crete. Warriors used their metal armor to protect and accentuate their bodies, but when they lost their armor to rival warriors, they were symbolically disassembled and dismembered, failing to actuate the great cybernetic warriors that they claimed to be.” (Jan, Peopling the Past)

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Italy

In Policy and Rights:

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

In Sport and Paralympics:

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

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Luxembourg

In Culture, Entertainment and Media:

One Centimetre at a Time: How a Luxembourg Podcast Demonstrated Practical Disability Inclusion. (Mar, Reframing Disability)

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Netherlands

In Politics and Elections:

Thousands of Dutch polling stations fail accessibility standards. (Mar, NL Times)

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Ukraine

In Economics and Social Protection:

Wanted to buy a fake disability for 6,000 US dollars – a colonel of the National Guard was detained. (Mar, Prosecutor General's Office)

Ukraine's Defense Ministry Announces One-Time Disability Compensation: Eligibility and Payment Details. (Mar, 112.ua)

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United Kingdom

In Civil Society and Community:

Engaging Local Creative Groups: A Toolkit for Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs). (Feb, Disability Rights UK)

In Culture, Entertainment and Media:

The blind aesthetic: What I’ve learned about beauty from blind sculptors and friends. (Mar, Body Babble)

People Like Us: Filling the Gaps Through Portraits of Disabled Activism. (Mar, Disability Arts Online)

Bridgerton actor was told her disability would hold her back before Netflix role. Profile of Gracie McGonigal. (Mar, BBC)

In Economics and Social Protection:

‘A cruel penalty’: disabled people face lower benefit payments if conditions not deemed lifelong. (Mar, the Guardian)

In Education and Childhood:

What are the Send changes in England likely to cost and what are the hurdles? (Feb, the Guardian)

In Employment, Business and Work:

Millions of Workers Have Energy Limiting Conditions. Why Aren’t We Designing for Them? (Mar, Disability Insight)

Government commits to introducing mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for large employers. (Mar, GOV.UK)

In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:

Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report:

‘61% of people had avoided at least one public service for fear of being harassed, read as trans, or being outed, and just over half (54%) had has at least one negative experience in a public service.’ (Mar, Scottish Trans)

In Health:

Maternal decision-making through temporal uncertainties: The anticipatory biopolitics of Vosoritide in dwarfism communities. (Social Science & Medicine)

In History and Memorial:

Michael Campbell: Actor with MND who won top award for playing Richard III dies. (Apr, BBC)

Graham Findlay, a tireless and influential advocate for disabled people’s rights, died on 4th February 2026. (Feb, Inclusive Design)

From Amputee to Author: Shadrack Byfield and the Making of a War of 1812 Veteran. (Jan, Journal of British Studies)

In Violence and Harassment:

Woman kept in ‘Dickensian’ servitude for 25 years speaks out as abuser jailed. (Mar, the Guardian)

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Canada

In History and Memorial:

History in 60: Disability rights in Canada TV Series. (Jan, H60)

In Policy and Rights:

Alberta bill will ban MAID for all non-terminal conditions and minors:

“The bill would also prohibit physicians and other health-care professionals from initiating unsolicited conversations about MAID with patients, and from referring individuals to receive euthanasia outside the province, and would also ban advertisements for MAID in hospitals.” (Mar, National Post)

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Mexico

In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:

“Grave and Systemic”: UN Exposes abuse against people with disabilities in institutions. (Mar, Disability Rights International)

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United States

In COVID-19:

Long COVID disability burden in US adults:

“Long COVID’s disability burden rivals that of Alzheimer’s and asthma. Yet Long COVID receives only 14% of its YLD-proportionate funding—$106 million instead of $739.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Conditions affecting mostly men receive 5.2 times more funding/YLD than those affecting mostly women.” (Mar, Communications Medicine)

In Civil Society and Community:

Fighting Cancer Has Given Me New Insights on the Anti-Fascist Challenge We Face: “To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.” (Mar, Truthout)

How the term ‘neurodivergent’ moved from activists to pop culture — and politics. (Mar, The 19th News)

Power in Protest – toolkit about demonstrations and civil disobedience. (Mar, ASAN)

In Communication and Language:

What Deafness Can Teach Us About Being ‘Articulate’. Interview with Rachel Kolb. (Mar, Emory Magazine)

ASL Interpreters Are Unionizing —And They Say They’re Getting Fired for It. (Mar, Mother Jones)

In Digital Accessibility and Technology:

One Week with NVDA: A JAWS User’s Immersion Journey. (Feb, Blind Access Journal)

Malice as modernization: Twenty-first century eugenics, AI, Project 2025, and disability. (Feb, First Monday)

In Economics and Social Protection:

Funding the ADA’s Promise. Why Disability Access Requires Investment Across Systems. (Mar, New America)

Trump SSI Rule Change Targets Disabled Adults Who Live With Families. (Apr, ProPublica)

“In the last year, it’s gotten a lot worse”. A Qualitative Investigation of Barriers to Disability Benefits in 2025:

“Although navigating SSA’s complex rules has always required determination, respondents told us that changes initiated by the second Trump administration in 2025 have undermined their sense that persistence and deep knowledge of program rules could eventually make the system work. They described how longstanding challenges, such as application processing delays, understaffing, and long wait times on the phone and in the field office, have intensified. In addition to this worsening of long-term issues, respondents described rapidly changing policies, unprecedented errors, and pervasive chaos to a degree that longtime service providers had never seen before.” (Mar, DREDF)

KU study tracks 43 years of intellectual and developmental disability funding trends:

“Of the FY23 total of $105 billion, State of the States researchers showed that the federal government spent $60.2 billion, states spent $43 billion, and local programs spent $1.37 billion on programs that help support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.” (Mar, KU News)

Nation's Disability Services System Faces 'Unprecedented' Threats. (Mar, Disability Scoop)

In Education and Childhood:

These blind students say their college blocked their education. A new rule could help. (Apr, NPR)

Accessibility Isn’t the Problem. Exam Design Is. Thoughtful reflections on the increase and risks of accommodations in exams:

“Grades should reflect mastery of course material. As such, timed assessments are only one tool — sometimes a good one, sometimes a poor one — to measure that mastery. In some contexts, time pressure is meaningful. If it takes a student four hours to translate a sentence in French, their fluency is certainly in question. In other contexts, speed is incidental. In many advanced problem-solving settings, arriving at the correct method and justification matters more than racing against the clock.” (Feb, Harvard Crimson)

In Employment, Business and Work:

New Data Show Unemployment Rising for Black and Asian Disabled Workers Amid Trump's Attacks. (Mar, National Partnership for Women & Families)

“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen. (Feb, American Political Science Review)

In Health:

Long COVID disability burden in US adults:

“Long COVID’s disability burden rivals that of Alzheimer’s and asthma. Yet Long COVID receives only 14% of its YLD-proportionate funding—$106 million instead of $739.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Conditions affecting mostly men receive 5.2 times more funding/YLD than those affecting mostly women.” (Mar, Communications Medicine)

Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart? “Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines.” (2025, New York Times)

In History and Memorial:

Alice Wong showed us Disability Justice makes our advocacy stronger. (Apr, The Sick Times)

A Michigan man built a life-changing mobility device for his wife — then the world took notice. Obituary of Allan "Al" Thieme, who invented a mobility scooter. (Mar, MLive)

Giving Alice Wong Her Flowers. A series gathering memories of Alice. See also part 2 and part 3. (Mar, Disabled Journalists Association)

What were the Experiences of Disabled People during WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans? (Feb, Densho)

“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen. (Feb, American Political Science Review)

Celebration of Life of Alice Wong. (Feb, Disability Visibility Project)

These “Children Won’t Become Women”: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service:

“Beyond its utility as a contraceptive, many physicians and institutional administrators saw Depo-Provera as a treatment for menstrual anxiety, a reprieve for care workers, a non-surgical substitute for sterilization, and a delayer of puberty for women with intellectual disabilities.” (Jan, History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)

Reassessing Helen Keller’s Reform Writings: Disability And Gender In Progressive Era American Feminism (1900-1960). (Jan, ASJP)

In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:

Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s Death Was a Homicide. (Apr, Mother Jones)

Hayward family, including deaf child deported to Colombia. (Mar, KTVU FOX 2)

Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. (Mar, Truthout)

In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:

Massachusetts Unseals Records of Abuse of Disabled People in State Institutions. (Mar, Truthout)

How involuntary commitment could become indefinite detention. “Federal authorities should not be able to turn civil commitment into a life sentence for anyone the government deems inconvenient.” (Feb, Reason)

These “Children Won’t Become Women”: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service:

“Beyond its utility as a contraceptive, many physicians and institutional administrators saw Depo-Provera as a treatment for menstrual anxiety, a reprieve for care workers, a non-surgical substitute for sterilization, and a delayer of puberty for women with intellectual disabilities.” (Jan, History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)

In Lived Experience and Opinion:

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. (Mar, Sightless Scribbles)

In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:

For disabled fliers, hope took wing. Then Trump returned to office. (Mar, Los Angeles Times)

In Politics and Elections:

Protect Voting Rights for People with Disabilities. Congress is considering several bills right now that could make voter registration more difficult for many Americans, including millions of voters with disabilities. (Mar, Disability Belongs)

In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:

These “Children Won’t Become Women”: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service:

“Beyond its utility as a contraceptive, many physicians and institutional administrators saw Depo-Provera as a treatment for menstrual anxiety, a reprieve for care workers, a non-surgical substitute for sterilization, and a delayer of puberty for women with intellectual disabilities.” (Jan, History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)

In Sport and Paralympics:

We're Not Winning Because We're Not Investing. What the 2026 Winter Paralympics Reveals About How the United States Values Disabled Athletes. (Mar, Kara Ayers)

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Australia

In Culture, Entertainment and Media:

The media wants disabled people to be locked inside until they die:

“In a country where billionaires avoid tax, fossil fuel companies avoid tax, social media companies avoid tax and media empires avoid tax, apparently the real strain on taxpayer money is disabled people who have the nerve to want to be alive.” (Mar, The Shot)

In Economics and Social Protection:

Disability community 'scared' by dramatic NDIS changes:

“Mr Butler announced a major overhaul of the NDIS to slash the growth of the scheme and reduce the number of participants from 760,000 to around 600,000 by the end of the decade.” (Apr, ABC News)

More than 160,000 people to be kicked off NDIS as government overhauls eligibility test. (Apr, ABC News)

NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean? (Apr, the Conversation)

If we “can’t afford” the NDIS, what can we afford? (Apr, Powerd Media)

In Health:

A new diagnosis of ‘profound autism’ is on the cards. Here’s what could change. (Feb, The Conversation)

In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:

$3000 fines for cab drivers “who refuse to accept travel subsidy dockets and cards from passengers with disability or rip off passengers who use a wheelchair”. (Mar, NSW Government)

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New Zealand

In Accessibility and Design:

Disabled man’s wait for housing finally over - 'it's taken its toll'. (Apr, 1News)

In Conflict and Peace:

How the Iran conflict is impacting disabled communities in Aotearoa - and what we can do about. (Mar, The D*List)

In Culture, Entertainment and Media:

We're three years old... is The D*List what we thought it would be? (Mar, The D*List)

In Data and Research:

From Data to Dignity 2026. Health and wellbeing indicators for New Zealanders with intellectual disability: “People with intellectual disability live on average 17 years less than the general population” (Feb, ihc)

In Economics and Social Protection:

When “Natural Supports” Aren’t Natural at All:

“Many disabled people want to be supported by their whānau. Many whānau want to provide that care. The issue is not willingness. The issue is whether the State will continue to depend on that willingness while refusing to resource it. Because if it does, we need to stop calling it “natural supports.” And start calling it what it is, a system built on unpaid labour, despite the law increasingly recognising that labour as work.” (Apr, Huhana Hickey)

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Argentina

In Assistive Technology:

Monster Chair: A giant wheelchair taking on accessibility barriers in Argentina. (Apr, Roastbrief US)

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Peru

In Civil Society and Community:

Changing the Script: A Story of Self-Advocacy in Peru. (Mar, Mad Thinking)

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Venezuela

In Justice Systems and Legal Capacity:

Autism in prison: an invisible population within the Venezuelan prison system. (In Spanish, Apr, La Patilla)

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