Disability news, November 2026, by subject
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This update has 127 curated links from 45 countries and regions, organized across 38 subjects.
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Contents
- Accessibility and Design
- Assistive Technology
- Civil Society and Community
- Communication and Language
- Conflict and Peace
- Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Data and Research
- Digital Accessibility and Technology
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response
- Economics and Social Protection
- Education and Childhood
- Employment, Business and Work
- Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities
- Health
- History and Memorial
- Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees
- Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization
- Indigenous People and Minority Communities
- International Cooperation
- Justice Systems and Legal Capacity
- Lived Experience and Opinion
- Mental Health
- Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism
- Policy and Rights
- Politics and Elections
- Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights
- Sport and Paralympics
- Violence and Harassment
Accessibility and Design
United Kingdom
The bingo card of awful accessibility comms: “We apologise for the inconvenience caused.” (Sep, The Accessible Link)
United States
How the Architecture of Sound Is Transforming Cities. “Acoustic cues don’t just make spaces more accessible — they also create opportunities for exploration and delight.” (Sep, Reasons to be Cheerful)
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Assistive Technology
International News
UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on access to assistive technology. (Sep, ATscale)
Assistive Technologies as Perceived Advantage: How Fairness Discourses Perpetuate the Exclusion of People with Disabilities from Elite Sport. (Sep, Disability Studies Quarterly)
Fiji
Transforming access to assistive technology for children in Fiji and the Pacific. (Sep, ATscale)
Netherlands
He was perfectly entitled to pop a wheelie in his new wheelchair. The judge rejected the supplier’s argument that the user himself was also at fault. (In Dutch, Oct, NRC)
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Civil Society and Community
International News
Disability, Revolution. A book by Robert McRuer: “an accessible overview of disability justice movements and their relevance to larger emancipatory coalitions.” (Sep, UC Press)
France
Solidarity and health: associations are mobilizing. "What if we really stopped?" (In French, Oct, Handicap.fr)
Thailand
The benevolent cage: Moral governance, gendered disablement, and the shadow welfare state in contemporary Thailand:
“A moralised framework of karmic consequence, compassionate pity, and elder-junior hierarchy authorises a benevolent cage of confinement. Gender stratifies these dynamics, imposing compounded obligation on women while rendering men's standing precarious through erasure from kinship structures. Welfare absence compels families to function as a shadow welfare state, wherein a debt of gratitude becomes a transactional mechanism making belonging conditional upon economic contribution.” (Oct, Critical Social Policy)
United Kingdom
‘Our culture is rich and we need our own space’: the fight to build a permanent centre for Deaf people. (Sep, the Guardian)
United States
North Star Memo. “To build a better future, we need a true north star vision for what justice looks like for disabled people in the so- called United States”. (Sep, Disability Culture Lab)
The “Profound Autism” Label Hurts Autistic People:
“Separating people with many support needs into a different group hurts them. It hurts the people who love them. It can also hurt people who don’t get put into that group. And it hurts the autistic advocacy movement. We must fight for a world where all autistic people can make choices about our lives and futures.” (Sep, Autistic Self Advocacy Network)
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Communication and Language
Sign Languages
Namibia
“Namibia is home to an estimated 27 000 deaf people, but a chronic shortage of qualified sign language interpreters is locking many of them out of healthcare, policing, courts and public life, the Namibian Organisation of Youth With Disabilities (NOYD) said this week”. (Sep, Aitsa!)
Rwanda
The push to recognize Rwandan Sign Language. (Sep, Disability Rights Fund)
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Conflict and Peace
Overview
India
Supreme Court pulls up govt for 'denying' disabled soldiers their benefits. (Sep, Times of India)
Lebanon
The families of people with disabilities in Lebanese camps face heavy burdens, and aid falls short of their needs. (In Arabic, Sep, Palestinian Refugee Portal)
Syria
Israeli forces kill disabled man in southern Syria raid, state media says. (Oct, Aljazeera)
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Palestine
Gaza’s Disabled Left Behind: “All Our Dreams Are Gone”. (Video documentary, Sep, The Real News Network)
Beyond the Body Count: Gender, Disability, and the Settler Colonial Logic of Genocide in Gaza:
“In Gaza, for instance, deliberate targeting of hospitals, medical personnel, and life-saving infrastructure, along with the blockade that restricts the entry of medical supplies and assistive devices, contributes to widespread impairments and psychological trauma, the creation of conditions that bring about the physical and mental destruction of the population.” (Sep, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research)
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Culture, Entertainment and Media
Overview
International News
Review of 'The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability'. (Oct, H-Disability)
The Ocularcentric Paradigm in Mathematics: Historical Roots and Contemporary Consequences. The article:
“examines a selection of notable contributions by blind scientists over the past three centuries, highlighting the generative, structural influence that blindness exerted on their cognitive approaches, research practices, and innovative achievements.” (Sep, Disability Studies Quarterly)
The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum. (Inclusive Museum Research Network)
Australia
Manifesto of Silences reimagines opera from a Deaf perspective, as a space to process trauma communally. (Oct, the Conversation)
Canada
Creating the world’s first accessible holiday tradition. (Treat Accessibly)
United States
Stigmatic History: The Advancement of Accessibility in U.S. Museums, 1960-2010. (Sep, Liberty University)
Christine Sun Kim receives a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. (MacArthur Foundation)
TV and Film
International News
‘Being Heumann’ Star Ruth Madeley: “I Had To Be Nominated For A Bafta To Get Work”. (Oct)
United Kingdom
Kyla Harris: "We wanted to completely break convention”. The filmmaker on her BBC series ‘We Might Regret This’, a disabled gaze, and wheelchair strippers. (Oct, Body Babble)
Cruelty dressed as care: why I made Channel 4’s ‘The Experiment’. (Oct, Sophie Morgan)
Media
United Kingdom
An Interview with Cengizhan Sen of The Poorly Project, “an editorial initiative that curates disabled, sick, and thematically adjacent artists in order to facilitate discourse on art, illness, health, and well-being.” (Oct, Able's Substack)
United States
Autistic Lives, Unmasked: Eric Garcia. What it means to live as an autistic person. (Oct, The Autistic Mom)
The Fight to Keep Playboy in Braille. “For more than a decade, the federal government published Playboy in braille. Congress defunded it. Blind readers sued—and won.” (Sep, Playboy)
How I Curate Accessibility Weekly. (Sep, David A. Kennedy)
Clothing and Fashion
United Kingdom
Daisy Lafarge wants to dress her disability differently. (Oct, Financial Times)
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Data and Research
International News
Disability Data Harmonization: Why Estimates Differ. (Oct, Center for Inclusive Policy)
Bangladesh
National burden of disabilities in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic correlates: A 2021 cross-sectional analysis:
“The prevalence of disability was 2.79% (95% CI 2.69–2.91). Physical disability (42.44%) and visual impairment (14.11%) were the most commonly reported types, and 11.60% of persons with disabilities reported multiple disabilities.” (Oct, PLOS Global Public Health)
Canada
Technical report on disability measurement in Canada. (Mar, Government of Canada)
Ethiopia
Tigray, Amhara, Gambella lead disability rates as Federation rejects survey findings. (Sep, Capital Newspaper)
National Survey on person with Disabilities in Ethiopia:
“Based on data collected from more than 42,000 individuals across 9,200 households, the survey found that one in five households includes a person with a disability and highlighted significant disparities in access to education, healthcare, employment and social participation. The findings show that children with disabilities are less likely to attend school, persons with disabilities face higher unemployment and greater barriers to essential services, and many experience exclusion that undermines their well-being and quality of life.” (Sep, UNICEF)
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Digital Accessibility and Technology
Overview
Norway
Accessibility is currently required to let us spend money, but still not to let us earn money. “We still do not have accessibility requirements for workplace IT systems (!?)” (Sep, Bogdan on Digital Accessibility (A11y))
Artificial Intelligence
International News
Report on the Use of AI and ICT to Support the Inclusion of Children with Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities. (Sep, UNESCO IITE)
Europe
Empowered by AI: 18 new AI projects begin across Europe. (Oct, European Disability Forum)
6 ways the AI Omnibus weakens protections for persons with disabilities. (Jun, EDF)
United Kingdom
Disabled peer uses AI tech to recreate the voice she used to have, as she delivers speech to House of Lords. (Oct, Disability News Service)
Social Media
India
When Disability Becomes a Punchline. What happens when disability becomes a source of humour, insult and ridicule in Kashmiri digital content? (Sep, Greater Kashmir)
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response
United Kingdom
“We need more than an evacuation plan” – Where Do Disabled People Fit into the Government’s Emergency Plans? (Sep, Disability Rights UK)
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Economics and Social Protection
Overview
India
Skilling Up, Accessibility Down: The Contradiction at the Heart of Budget 2026’s Disability Agenda. (Sep, Counter Currents)
Mexico
Get to know the 2027 budget allocations for people with disabilities. (In Spanish, Sep, Yo También)
Financial Inclusion
United States
A New Approach to Closing the Disability Wealth Gap. On the creation of Artichoke Credit Union, “a first-of-its-kind credit union designed with and for the disability community.” (Oct, Disability Culture Lab)
Social Protection
Angola
Comparative study on disability benefits to support recommendations for Angola. (Jun, ILO)
Georgia
Tbilisi Court of Appeal Grants Beka Shonia Home Ventilator and Medical Services in Disability Rights Ruling. (Jul, Validity)
India
Disability board member, malaria inspector among 9 held in fake disability certificate racket. (Oct, Times of India)
Israel
Woman Stole $2.5M in Disability Fraud “Prosecutors say Bracha Rotman filed dozens of fraudulent claims for child disability benefits using forged hearing-test documents, and collecting payments for families across Israel while charging them fees for her services.” (Sep, JFeed)
Moldova
Moldova reforms disability assessment and community care. (Sep, Moldova M1)
Tanzania
Beyond the Pinpoints: Making Disability Services Visible in Zanzibar. (Oct, UNDP)
United Kingdom
I'm a PIP claimant – here's how I spend my £780 payment. (Oct, The iPaper)
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Education and Childhood
International News
Disability, Education, and International Development. An open-access book by Guy Le Fanu: “How can the international development community better support inclusive education for children with disabilities in low and lower-middle income countries?” (Sep, Bristol University Press)
Report on the Use of AI and ICT to Support the Inclusion of Children with Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities. (Sep, UNESCO IITE)
Burundi
Inclusion of students living with disabilities is still insufficient. (Oct, Iwacu)
Spain
Government presents its strategy to include students with disabilities in mainstream schools. (In Spanish, Sep, El País)
United States
Getting a Special Education: Parents, Lawyers, and the Politics of Disability in Postwar Pennsylvania. (Swathmore College)
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Employment, Business and Work
International News
All In Series. A series of 10 short films: “Watch the films to discover what’s possible when accessibility is built into business from the start.” (Valuable 500)
Brazil
Company ordered to pay compensation for firing a production assistant with autism. (In Portuguese, Sep, UOL)
United Kingdom
ActionAble Disability Index FTSE 100 2026: Nothing to Declare: “With just 12 FTSE 100 companies publishing basic disability representation data, ActionAble warns that businesses lack vital data and insight about their workforce and customer base.” (Oct, Impact Match)
Neet with a disability: what’s holding back visually impaired young people who want to work. (Sep, the Conversation)
Disabled employees' experiences of workplace conflict:
“Employees with major-impact, long-term physical, mental, and cognitive disabilities, as well as forms of neurodivergence with a substantial impact on daily life (for example poliomyelitis, arthritis, scoliosis, cerebral palsy, bipolar disorder, and autism) were especially vulnerable because they were more likely to need substantial ongoing adjustments.” (Sep, Acas)
United States
Disabled Women and the Wage Gap:
“In 2024, disabled women workers, including those working part-time and seasonally, were paid 56 cents for every dollar paid to nondisabled men – $24,000 less per year.” (Aug, National Partnership for Women & Families)
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Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities
International News
Inclusive equality in every aspect of life: Understanding and using the CRPD Committee’s Guidelines on identifying and addressing intersectional discrimination against girls, adolescents, women and older women with disabilities. (Sep, IDA)
United States
Disabled Women and the Wage Gap:
“In 2024, disabled women workers, including those working part-time and seasonally, were paid 56 cents for every dollar paid to nondisabled men – $24,000 less per year.” (Aug, National Partnership for Women & Families)
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Health
International News
The association between disability and mortality among children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (Sep, PLOS Medicine)
Pakistan
He will never be a ‘normal’ person: a qualitative study of multi-level barriers to healthcare access for children with disabilities in Sindh, Pakistan. (Sep, Springer Nature Link)
Palestine
Psychiatric Mobilities: Palestinian Patients at the Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1900–1948. (Aug, Social History of Medicine)
United Kingdom
Kody's Story - Being diagnosed with ADHD as a physically Disabled person. (Sep, Disability Rights UK)
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History and Memorial
Canada
“Bold Bad Girls in a First-Class Institution”: A Microhistorical Account of the 1893 Inquiry into Abuse at the Waterloo County Poorhouse. (Apr, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)
China
Book review of 'Disability and Impairment in Early China: Other Bodies'. (Sep, H-Disability)
Japan
Disability history of the early Catholic mission in Japan: the case of visually impaired bards from the Buddhist tradition. (Sep, Religion)
Mexico
Carmina Hernández, a xylographer and poet who revolutionized art and inclusion, dies. (Oct, Yo También)
Spain
History of the social disability movement in Spain:
“Every legislative milestone [...] every support resource, and every step toward inclusion has been the result of a sustained, persevering, and, on many occasions, exhausting struggle by an activist movement. It is a struggle led by specific individuals, by families who were simultaneously distressed and combative, and by organizations that—within contexts marked by political adversity, economic precariousness, and cultural isolation—succeeded in transforming individual needs into collective political causes.” (In Spanish, May, SID)
United Kingdom
Radical Object: The Radar Key:
“By locking facilities to protect them from misuse, this process created a form of conditional access, limiting public space to those in possession of an approved material object – the Radar Key.” (Sep, History Workshop)
United States
RJ Mitte – a life in pictures. (Oct, the Guardian)
RJ Mitte, Who Played Walter White’s Son on ‘Breaking Bad,’ Dies at 34. (Oct, New York Times)
RJ Mitte: How Breaking Bad star changed the way we see cerebral palsy. (Oct, BBC)
Beloved musician and producer Joey Stuckey has died after suffering a heart attack while on tour. “He was blinded at age 2 and survived a childhood brain tumor.” (Oct, MLive)
RJ Mitte’s Legacy: How Walter Jr. Shifted the Lens on Disability:
“What made Walter Jr. so extraordinary wasn’t that the show ignored his cerebral palsy; it was that his CP wasn’t his entire personality. He wasn’t a sanctimonious PSA. He wasn’t tragic inspirational wallpaper designed to make the able-bodied audience feel warm inside. He was moody. He was impulsive. He was obsessed with Raisin Bran Crunch. In other words: he was a regular teenager who happened to contend with a disability. He showed millions of viewers that CP was a reality to navigate, not a defining character flaw.” (Oct, Newsweek)
RJ Mitte, Breaking Bad star and disability rights advocate, dies aged 34:
‘"Cerebral palsy and mental health go hand in hand because when you have a physical disability you're twice as likely to be bullied," Mitte said in 2015.’ (Oct, ABC News)
Getting a Special Education: Parents, Lawyers, and the Politics of Disability in Postwar Pennsylvania. (Swathmore College)
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Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees
International News
Funding Cuts and Policy Shifts: Impacts on Disability Inclusive Humanitarian Action:
“Because disability inclusion was rarely ring-fenced, it is among the first things to be absorbed or dropped when broader programmes are cut.” (Oct, Disability Reference Group)
Inclusive humanitarian assistance and safeguards for the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of current humanitarian reform processes. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Heba Hagrass. (Jul, OHCHR)
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Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization
Overview
United States
The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise. “Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.” (Oct, The 19th)
Congressional resolution affirms Disabled people’s right to live in communities. (Sep, Disabled Journalists Association)
Conditions in Institutions
Canada
“Bold Bad Girls in a First-Class Institution”: A Microhistorical Account of the 1893 Inquiry into Abuse at the Waterloo County Poorhouse. (Apr, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)
Cyprus
Young Disabled People Trapped in Care Homes. Around 300 people with disabilities are living in elderly care homes due to a lack of suitable alternatives, lawmakers heard. (Sep, Politis)
Poland
A naked woman was put to bed. Shocking film of a woman with intellectual disabilities constrained. (In Polish, Sep, Wiadomosci)
Thailand
Police probe illegal restraint claim at Kanchanaburi elderly care home. (Oct, Thai PBS World)
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Indigenous People and Minority Communities
United States
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Calls Us to Be Better Relatives. (Oct, Disability Culture Lab)
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International Cooperation
International News
At UN General Assembly, Global Autism Advocacy Coalition launches new initiatives to accelerate autism action worldwide. (Sep, Autism Speaks)
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Justice Systems and Legal Capacity
United Kingdom
Removing safeguards against deprivation of liberty and the weaponisation of ‘wishes and feelings’ by the UK Supreme Court. (Oct, Irish Centre for Human Rights Blog)
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Lived Experience and Opinion
Netherlands
The toxic side of the ME community. How we decide what kind of community we want to create:
“Every time I have little improvements (that usually don’t last long until taken away) I feel afraid to share. Afraid for the reaction of ‘see you aren’t that sick after all’. This is something I feel very strongly in ablebodied spaces where people immediately expect me to be fully recovered. But I have also noticed this within this community where people react as if improvement makes my illness less real. I can gain the ability to listen to an audiobook while lying down and suddenly my ME isn’t real or severe?” (Aug, Malaika's Substack)
Switzerland
Thank you for not saving my life. “An intimate story about the importance of communication, ethical dilemmas and resilience to medical adversity.” (In French, Sep, Couper L'Herbe Sous Les Roues)
United Kingdom
“Ableism is bad for your brain because it means you’re constantly on edge, constantly arguing for your own humanity, constantly denied opportunities, choices and belonging.” (Oct, The View From Down Here)
Analysis: Telegraph’s ‘Sickfluencer’ Story Is More Ableism With an English Accent. (Sep, Disabled Journalists Association)
I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse. (Sep, the Guardian)
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Mental Health
Palestine
Psychiatric Mobilities: Palestinian Patients at the Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1900–1948. (Aug, Social History of Medicine)
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Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism
Overview
Netherlands
In supplementary public transport, the driver is 'psychologist, buddy, and driver all in one'. “The drivers in healthcare transport, used by over a million Dutch people, are specially trained for this. Due to severe staff shortages, regular taxi drivers are now also being deployed.” (In Dutch, Sep, NRC)
Air Travel
India
Air India fined Rs 50,000 for deboarding wheelchair user. (Sep, Times of India)
United Kingdom
UK government promises disabled air passengers better safeguards. (Oct, the Guardian)
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Policy and Rights
Overview
Chile
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Welcome Chile’s Disability Institutions, Ask about Reports of Ill-Treatment in Psychiatric Units and Legal Capacity Laws. (Aug, OHCHR)
Georgia
Tbilisi Court of Appeal Grants Beka Shonia Home Ventilator and Medical Services in Disability Rights Ruling. (Jul, Validity)
Germany
Accessibility is being delayed: “The SPD accuses the CDU/CSU of blocking the reform of the Disability Equality Act. The CDU/CSU denies this. Why is there no progress?” (In German, Oct, Taz)
Liberia
Disability Bill Would Scrap 2005 Protections, Blind Group Warns: “those include a 4% employment quota, three seats in the Legislature and a requirement that disabled persons or disability specialists lead the national disability commission.” (Sep, All Africa)
Lithuania
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Welcome Lithuania’s Reviews of Disability Related Laws, Raise Issues Concerning the Accessibility of Public Buildings and Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities. (Aug, OHCHR)
Qatar
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Commend Qatar for Progress in Digitalisation, Ask about Conflict-Related Crisis Strategies and Deprivation of Liberty of Persons with Disabilities. (Aug, OHCHR)
Slovakia
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Commend Involvement of Slovakia’s Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, Raise Questions on Use of Restraints in Psychiatric Institutions and Inclusive Education. (Aug, OHCHR)
Spain
Congress approves the reform of the disability law and the restructuring of the dependency system: state funding will be 50%. (In Spanish, Jul, Ministerio de Derechos Sociales)
Sri Lanka
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Welcome Sri Lanka’s Legislative and Policy Frameworks and Institutions Advancing Disability Rights, Ask about Monitoring of Residential Care Centres and the Prevalence of Sign Language. (Aug, OHCHR)
United States
California is falling short —disabled Californians must lead the way forward:
“In a study ranking all 50 states and Washington DC from best to worst as a place to live with a disability, California falls just above the worst, ranking 47th. This ranking is based on economics, affordability, livability, and healthcare. Critical mental health services remain underfunded and have not kept pace with need in our state. Rather than closing the gap, California has enacted a series of regressive policies that erode the rights of people with disabilities and pull funding from the voluntary services and housing we know work. Disabled people are also shut out of civic life by inaccessible voting systems, inadequate transportation, and too few accommodations for taking part in government meetings.” (California Disability Leadership Alliance)
Uzbekistan
Disability Rights in Uzbekistan: Progress on Paper, Barriers in Practice. (Oct, Novastan)
Assisted Dying and Euthanasia
Belgium
Proportion of deaths caused by euthanasia more than doubles in five years, reaching 4% of all deaths in 2025. (Oct, Right to Life)
'I'm done with medical abuse'. Actor Arnaud Denis dies by euthanasia in Belgium: "A man knows deep down inside when he is doomed." (Sep, Euronews)
Netherlands
Severely disabled toddler euthanized in the Netherlands under new rules on the controversial practice. (Sep, CBS News)
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Politics and Elections
International News
Political Participation under CRPD General Comment No. 11: IDA's Analysis and OPD Advocacy Toolkit. (Sep, IDA)
Brazil
In 16 years, voters with disabilities jumped from 0.1% to 1.24% of the total. (In Portuguese, Oct, Papo Aberto)
Accessibility resources that expand autonomy in the vote. The electorate with disabilities numbers 1.97 million people. (In Portuguese, Sep, Agência Brasil)
Switzerland
People with intellectual disabilities should be allowed to vote. “The Federal Council has launched a public consultation on a corresponding amendment to the Federal Constitution.” (Oct, Blue News)
United Kingdom
Disabled peer uses AI tech to recreate the voice she used to have, as she delivers speech to House of Lords. (Oct, Disability News Service)
United States
Josh Turek Flips Iowa Senate Seat. The former Paralympian will be the state’s first Democratic senator in more than a decade. (Nov, Mother Jones)
Disabled Voters Report More Financial Strain Than Non-Disabled Voters. (Oct, Data for Progress)
All About The U.S. Political Model of Disability:
“Decisions on who becomes disabled, and who does not, are often made for profit and power in corporate boardrooms, the halls of Congress, state legislatures, and city halls. They are also made by abusive spouses, racist police officers, and perpetrators of hate crimes. While disability itself is neutral, disabling others for profit, convenience, or hate — whether by policy or personal violence — is an act of harm.” (Sep, Disability Culture Lab)
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Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights
Europe
Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Disabled People. (Jul, ENIL)
Nigeria
Forced sterilisation, sexual assault: Stories of abuse faced by women with disabilities in Nigeria. (Sep, The Journal)
Switzerland
Chastity chair. “For a fee, sex workers provide intimate moments to some people with disabilities. In 2025, due to a shortage of these professionals, they spent more time traveling than with their clients.” (In French, Oct, Couper L'herbe Sous les Roues)
United States
This Lollipop Could Help Blind Women Independently Detect Pregnancy. “Design student Sneha Rao is developing Tact, an edible pregnancy test that allows people with vision impairment to feel its results on their tongues.” (Oct, Smithsonian Magazine)
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Sport and Paralympics
International News
Assistive Technologies as Perceived Advantage: How Fairness Discourses Perpetuate the Exclusion of People with Disabilities from Elite Sport. (Sep, Disability Studies Quarterly)
Germany
Away from the TV picture. Why disabled fans barely occur in football broadcasts. (In German, Sep, Die Neue Norm)
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Violence and Harassment
Madagascar
Murdered for their eyes: people with albinism living in terror in Madagascar. (Sep, the Guardian)
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