Disability news, September 2025, by country
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This update has 130 curated links from 41 countries and regions, organized across 36 subjects.
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Global
International News
In Civil Society and Community:
How Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism Work Together to Depoliticise Disability Movements. “What I have found in my work and research is that authoritarianism and neoliberalism come together to create and encourage a depoliticised disability space.” (Aug, Mad Thinking)
Palestine Action. Statement to the CRPD Committee: “We, as part of the global disability community, express our grave concerns at the ongoing state-sponsored genocide against the people of Palestine.” (Sep, Women Enabled)
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Cultivating Authentic Disability Representation in Dance (Jul, Dance Magazine)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
WCAG in Plain English: “Making the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) easy to understand, one success criterion at a time.” (Apr, AAArdvark)
ChatGPT adds mental health guardrails after bot 'fell short in recognizing signs of delusion'. (Aug, NBC News)
Deaf scholar calls for community to be ‘assertive’ amid rise in AI sign language technology:
“We need to stand up and tell people that it doesn’t work for us, and within the same policy frameworks, we should ensure that these frameworks prioritise equity, equality, choice, who decides accountability.” (Jul, Liam O'Dell)
Deaf in AI: AI language technologies and the erosion of linguistic rights:
“While AI tools promise innovation, they also perpetuate biases, reinforce technoableism, and deepen inequalities through systemic and design flaws.” (Language and Law)
For influencers with Down syndrome, success comes with complications:
‘Social media has helped change perceptions of a variety of disabilities. On TikTok, “neurodivergence” has become a buzzword. It’s also become a punch line. Social media has provided a platform for bullies to attack strangers that was impossible before the internet.’ (Jul, The Washington Post)
Adapting a Participatory Group Programme for Caregivers of Children with Complex Neurodisability from Low-, Middle-Income Countries to a High-Income Setting: Moving from “Baby Ubuntu” to “Encompass”. (Jul, IJERPH)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
The state of healthcare systems for women with disabilities in 2025:
“Women with disabilities represent 18% of all women around the world, equating to approximately 700 million individuals. They face significant health disparities, including a life expectancy reduction of 10-20 years compared to women without disabilities, and worse outcomes across many health conditions and across the life course. Despite these challenges, this topic in health remains underrepresented in major global health strategies and funding priorities. While life expectancy and other health outcome gaps also exist for men with disabilities, women tend to face worse outcomes due to multiple vulnerabilities”. (Apr, Missing Billion)
In Health:
The state of healthcare systems for women with disabilities in 2025:
“Women with disabilities represent 18% of all women around the world, equating to approximately 700 million individuals. They face significant health disparities, including a life expectancy reduction of 10-20 years compared to women without disabilities, and worse outcomes across many health conditions and across the life course. Despite these challenges, this topic in health remains underrepresented in major global health strategies and funding priorities. While life expectancy and other health outcome gaps also exist for men with disabilities, women tend to face worse outcomes due to multiple vulnerabilities”. (Apr, Missing Billion)
“The study of disability in the ancient Mediterranean is in its infancy, with work largely focused on disability itself and concerned with identifying disabled figures, the language of disability, and potential frameworks or models for understanding disability in very different contexts. Much work is, at present, being done by graduate students and underfunded researchers and published in edited volumes, but we are on the cusp of this work entering the mainstream of scholarship on the ancient world.” (Jul, The Classical Review)
Disabled Leaders. A zine featuring disabled leaders from 34,000 BC to 1770 AD. See also part 2. (Apr, Disability Action Research Kollective)
In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:
Key messages on disability inclusion in the humanitarian reset. (Jul, Disability Reference Group)
Impact of funding cuts on persons with disabilities - in humanitarian action. (Jul, Disability Reference Group)
Value for money and disability inclusion: “disability inclusion is not a trade-off, but a multiplier. It strengthens development outcomes, meets international obligations and ensures that UK aid truly leaves no one behind.” (Aug, Bond)
‘Everyday, more rights are threatened’: New research reveals impact of funding cuts on feminist disability activists:
“Out of the 54 organisations that completed the survey, twenty-three (42 per cent) have lost more than 50 per cent of their funding in the current funding and political context, forcing many of them to stop the majority of programmatic work. At least ten organisations (18 per cent)—including organisations operating in the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan, South Asia, North America, and Central America and Mexico, and a UN entity operating in South America—have been forced to cease all operations.” (Jul, Alliance)
United We Stand Funding and budgeting for disability inclusion in international cooperation:
“2025 has been a year of seismic shift by governments and their commitments to international development and humanitarian assistance. The cuts in Official Development Assistance (ODA) across many OECD members, the rise of anti-diversity and exclusionary narratives, and a shrinking civil society space has put significant strain on the partnerships that work together under international development and humanitarian frameworks.” (Jul, IDDC)
Impact of funding cuts on persons with disabilities - in humanitarian action. (Jul, Disability Reference Group)
UN disability rights committee publishes findings on DPRK, Finland, Kiribati, Maldives, and State of Palestine. (Sep, UN)
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Africa
Africa
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Strategies for Learners with Diverse Educational Needs in African Schools: A Qualitative Literature Review. (Jun, Disabilities)
Southern Africa Journal on albinism and socio-economic rights: “comprises case studies, commentaries, opinion pieces, referenced critical pieces and personal narratives of persons with albinism and persons working in organisations of persons with albinism”. (Jun, Amnesty)
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Botswana
Situational Analysis on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Botswana. (Jul, Global Disability Fund)
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Ghana
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
Disability and digital inequality: understanding the impact of different disabilities and socio-economic factors on internet use in Ghana:
“Findings indicate that individuals with disabilities are less likely to use the internet, even when controlling for various covariates. Notably, those with intellectual disabilities show the lowest likelihood of internet use. Additionally, disabled men are more likely to use the internet than disabled women.”
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Morocco
In Ageing:
92 homes for older people: are older people sufficiently protected as the population ages? (In French, Jul, La Vérité)
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Nigeria
Situational Analysis on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria. (May, Global Disability Fund)
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Tanzania
Socioeconomic and geographical disparities in disability distribution among Tanzanian population. Insights from the 2022 demographic and health survey and malaria indicator survey:
“The overall prevalence of disability in the study setting is 11.03%. Specifically, the major types of disabilities within the Tanzanian population are difficulty in seeing at 7.11%, followed by difficulty in movement (the ability to move from one place to another) and the lowest prevalence, at 1.13%, being difficulty in washing or dressing. Our analysis showed that the older population aged 50 and above had three times the risk of having a disability compared to the younger population aged between 5 and 30.” (Jul, BMC Public Health)
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Togo
Togo at the GDS 2025: Turning Global Commitments into National Action. (Jul, Inklusion leben)
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Uganda
In Civil Society and Community:
Why do Deaf Muslims go to Church in Uganda? “Church Sunday is socializing. Friday they go to mosque.” (Jul, Ambrose Murangira)
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Asia
Afghanistan
Futsal for empowering children with disabilities. “Launched in 2010, the ICRC’s futsal initiative is focused on the long-term physical rehabilitation and social inclusion of children with disabilities in Afghanistan, particularly those affected by cerebral palsy and polio.” (Jul, ICRC)
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Armenia
Assistive technology capacity assessment in Armenia:
“Key strengths include the existence of active organizations of people with disabilities, a structured state-supported provision system, and policies facilitating tax exemptions on imported assistive products. Persistent challenges include insufficient funding, limited product availability, lack of integration across health, social and education sectors, and the absence of standards for service provision and personnel training.” (WHO)
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Bangladesh
In Employment, Business and Work:
Breaking limits, one phone at a time. “Polio didn’t stop Arafath. Trained under the ISEC project, he turned his passion for electronics into a career, transforming his disability into a strength and a job into a mission to support his family and inspire others.” (Jul, ILO)
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Cameroon
Resilience of an OPD in Crisis Context. Interview with Nogning Armelle of the Coordinating Unit of Associations of Persons with Disabilities (CUAPWD). (Jul, Inklusion leben)
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China
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
My mom and Dr. DeepSeek “In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.” (Sep)
In Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response:
Beijing Evacuated Thousands Before Floods but Not the Most Vulnerable. “The recent flooding that killed 31 in a single nursing home exposed flaws in emergency planning as China braces for more extreme and unpredictable weather.” (Aug, New York Times)
China strengthens disability support systems in 14th Five-Year Plan period. "The enrollment rate of children and adolescents with disabilities in compulsory education in China has reached 97 percent, with over 30,000 disabled students entering universities each year." (Jul)
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India
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Media Reviews of Sitaare Zameen Par and what they reveal about disability representation. (Jul, Reframing Disability)
Recognizing that Children with Disabilities Are Children First: A Study on the Situation of Care and Protection of Children with Disabilities in India. (May, Keystone Human Services)
In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:
Disabled and chronically ill on the marriage market “What is the marriage market doing to people who don’t conform to standards of health, beauty, ability, and of course, vigour?” (Jul, Insights)
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Pakistan
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
AI chatbot launched for persons with disabilities “Offers confidential guidance on disability rights, job opportunities & legal aid”. (Jul, Tribune) See it live at Noor AI.
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Palestine
Gaza mother worries time running out for evacuation of malnourished daughter. (Aug, Reuters)
Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children:
“Some online commentators have sought to downplay the image’s power by pointing to a pre-existing medical condition. But Muhammad is starving as the result of Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. This is a war crime that is affecting the entire population and, based on my research, is inflicting particularly profound suffering on children with disabilities like Muhammad.” (Aug, Human Rights Watch)
Thirty Palestinians permanently or temporarily disabled daily due to genocide in Gaza:
“From about 156,000 Palestinians injured during Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over 681 days of genocide, the Euro-Med Monitor field team documented more than 21,000 cases of permanent or temporary disability.” (Aug, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor)
Israel’s attacks on Gaza are putting people with disabilities at extreme risk. (Aug, The Conversation)
Trapped in Gaza: Palestinians with disabilities cannot reach aid. (Aug, UN)
“This war violates all the rules of international law” From a humanitarian worker in Gaza:
“When you go through the security post, you really feel like you're entering a prison. Everything is designed to give you that feeling. I was in an armored vehicle and then we started driving through a landscape of ruins, everything demolished.” (Jul, Humanity & Inclusion)
Percentage of Persons with Disabilities in Gaza Has Increased because of Excessive Use of Force by Israel, State of Palestine Tells Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
‘Sanaa wasn’t a statistic’: Baby who ‘knew nothing but war’ dies of malnutrition as Gaza crisis deepens. “A toddler died in hospital as a result of prolonged nutritional deficiency and a lack of baby formula.”
Situational Analysis Persons with Disabilities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (Aug, Global Disability Fund)
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Singapore
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
I've always been my brother's caretaker. Now I'm learning to be his friend. (Jul, CNA)
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South Korea
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
This K-Pop Band Is Making Waves With Sign Language “Big Ocean, a boy band whose members are deaf or hard of hearing, has found success with a mix of singing and signing.” (Jul, New York Times)
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Europe
Europe
In Climate Crisis and Environment:
EU climate action and rights of persons with disabilities. (Jul, EDF)
Disability in exile The “Union of Russian Invalids” in interwar Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. (Jun, Alter)
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France
In Employment, Business and Work:
Testimonies on the 20th anniversary of the 2005 law, perspectives on employment and disability. (In French, Jun, Agefiph)
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Germany
In Employment, Business and Work:
How companies avoid inclusion – and save money. Those not fulfilling the quota on employment of disabled people can outsource to sheltered workshops. (In German, Jul, andererseits)
Hamburg Parliament apologised for suffering faced by deaf people. Deaf students were forbidden from using sign-language until the 1990s:
“The consequences of this structural violence, especially in educational institutions, have not yet been comprehensively addressed, acknowledged, and compensated. [...] The Hamburg Parliament apologizes to those affected for the suffering endured in Hamburg.” (In German, Jul, NDR)
Diabolical plans. “By the end of World War II, experts say, the Nazis would murder 750,000 to 1 million Disabled people across Germany and Nazi-occupied territories. It is a story few people are even aware of today.” (Jun, Disabled Journalists Association)
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Greece
In Employment, Business and Work:
Navigating Invisible Disability Disclosure and Workplace Inclusion: Employers’ Attitudes and Workplace Policies. (Apr, Disabilities)
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Hungary
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Victims or Heroes? Disability Representations in a Hungarian Online News Media Portal:
“Results suggest that even 30 years after the political changes, disabled people’s collective agency is marginal in Hungary, and that socio-legal changes and mediatized disability activism are yet to influence news media features.” (Jun, Disabilities)
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Italy
In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:
Controversy over institutions and whether “residences” can be considered “housing models”. (In Italian, Jul, Centro Gabriele and Lorenzo Giuntinelli)
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Sweden
In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:
The Complex Matter of Requesting Support —Experiences of Persons with Intellectual Disability:
“This study shows that persons with intellectual disability need two forms of support—one form is support that is requested for becoming more independent and another form is to be in a supportive environment. Requesting support is often difficult and persons with intellectual disability devote much time and energy to requesting support in the way that is most beneficial both to themselves and to support persons, weighing up various options and estimating possible outcomes. Persons with intellectual disability can feel satisfied and competent when they manage to assume responsibility for their own support needs and know what those needs are. For support persons to be able to provide support in a fruitful way, they need to be familiar with the iterative process of requesting and providing support.” (May, Disabilities)
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Switzerland
In Health:
“You're sick” And if I don't agree? (In French, Jul, Couper l'herbe Sous les Roues)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
“You're sick” And if I don't agree? (In French, Jul, Couper l'herbe Sous les Roues)
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Ukraine
In War in Ukraine:
Nowhere to go: a report on internally displaced people with disabilities in Ukraine. (Jul, Human Rights First)
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United Kingdom
Red Flags for Accessibility What to Look For and How to Take Action. (Jul, The Accessible Link)
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Poem in which I’m a transnational drug smuggler by Bethany Handley. (Jul, the Guardian)
Please do touch: sculpture exhibition curated by blind people to feature tactile works. (Jul, the Guardian)
Design and Disability at the V&A is a rich, thought-provoking exhibition. (Jul, The Conversation)
In Employment, Business and Work:
“Our own new ‘Promotion Gap’ analysis goes further to pinpoint the consequences of under-promotion specifically, or disabled people remaining in lower status roles within their sector, often as a result of managerial scepticism of their perceived capacity to take on greater seniority.” (Jul, Disability Policy Centre)
Disability inclusion should not require a diagnosis. “Two of the key elements to a proactive approach to workplace adjustments is having a robust process with a single entry point, which all line managers know how to use, and clearly communicating about the process in your internal communications,” advises Angela Matthews. (Jul, D&I Leaders)
Ramping Up Rights An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism, a book by Rachel Charlton-Dailey: “A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn’t over.” (Jul, Hurst)
In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:
Disability, loneliness and relationships: a thematic report. Disabled people “often have smaller networks than non-disabled people and are more dependent on these networks, which can lead to alternate definitions of friendship”. (Jul, Disability Unit)
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North America
Canada
In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:
Exploring Maternal Perspectives on Community Living for Their Adult Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: “If I Died Tomorrow, I’d Die Knowing That My Son Is Safe, Loved by the People in Here, Well Cared for, and Happy”. (Apr, Disabilities)
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Costa Rica
In Employment, Business and Work:
Objections to the 12-hour workdays from the movement of persons with disabilities. (In Spanish, Jul, Delfino)
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El Salvador
In Justice Systems and Legal Capacity:
Invisible, forgotten and tortured: the reality of persons with disabilities in El Salvador. (In Spanish, Aug, Cristosal)
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Guatemala
Sweeping legal victory before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
“The decision orders reparations for more than 3,000 children and adults who experienced violence, abuse, wrongful detention, and sex trafficking at the facility. The Inter-American Commission demands that Guatemala end detention at the facility and create a national system of community-based care and access to justice for victims of abuse. It strikes down Guatemala’s guardianship law and orders the country to create a new system of supported decision-making.” (Jun, Disability Rights International)
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Mexico
People with disabilities are poorer than the indigenous population. Results from the recent Household Income and Expenditure Survey. (Aug, Yo También)
In Economics and Social Protection:
People with disabilities are poorer than the indigenous population. Results from the recent Household Income and Expenditure Survey. (Aug, Yo También)
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United States
The Strange Beauty of New York’s Bodega Ramps “These humble, concrete blobs, designed to ease entry into delis and other stores, can resemble glaciers, pancakes or clamshells and affirm the civic compact.” (Aug, New York Times)
Wheelchair Users Are Finally Winning the Right to Repair. “State laws are forcing private equity–backed firms—which can make buyers wait months—to allow DIY fixes.” (Aug, Mother Jones)
Disabled sheep gets custom-made cart, learns to drive it with her head. (Aug, Washington Post)
The Five Failures of Wheelchair Provision.
“Generally speaking, despite being around for over one hundred years, wheelchairs are not well understood by most people. I think this is because of the heavy negative stigma associated with wheelchairs and people with disabilities.” (Jul, Open Source Wheelchairs)
In Civil Society and Community:
‘A Place for Us, By Us’: San Francisco’s Disability Cultural Center Breaks New Ground. (Aug, KQED)
Disability Activist To Be Featured On US Quarter. “Coins featuring Stacey Park Milbern will be available starting Aug. 12.” (Jul, Disability Scoop)
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Lessons in Creativity from Two Artists and Disability Futures Fellows:
“Art was my first language. It was how I communicated with my family and friends when spoken language wasn’t fully accessible to me.” (Jul, Mellon Foundation)
“Sinners” Is Bringing Black American Sign Language to the Mainstream. (Jul, Mother Jones)
The disability mismatch: the case for a comprehensive disability status measure. (Jul, Health Affairs Scholar)
Disabled Americans in Rural Communities: understanding their experience through data. (Jul, Urban Institute)
The State of Disabled LGBTQI+ People in 2024. “Nearly half of all LGBTQI+ adults reported having a disability in the past year”. (Jul, CAP)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
AI Robs My Students of the Ability to Think “For all its promise, AI is being developed and used in ways that are disabling.” (Aug, WSJ)
Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims. (Aug, the Guardian)
In Economics and Social Protection:
People with disabilities are 'eating the cost' of tariffs Adaptive technology prices going up due to tariffs. (Aug, Mashable)
The disability squeeze: Out-of-pocket expenses and unmet needs for disability-related goods and services in the U.S:
“Among 1168 working-age adults with disabilities, mean annual expenditures on disability-related goods and services was $5341 in June 2023, equating to 20% of household income. Additionally, 67% of adults with disabilities reported an unmet need.” (Jul, Disability and Health Journal)
Child care centers often reject kids with disabilities. Ohio and other states are trying to change that. (Aug, The Hechinger Report)
Data Shows More Discipline, Less College Prep for Students With Disabilities:
“While students with disabilities made up a minority of students, they were twice as likely to be arrested or suspended as their non-disabled peers in 2021-22.” (Jul, EdSurge)
Using Machine Learning to Identify Educational Predictors of Career and Job Satisfaction in Adults with Disabilities:
“Meeting the academic accommodation needs of disabled students is linked with lasting vocational success. This study underscores the associations between unmet academic accommodation needs and future job and career satisfaction, illuminated using novel machine learning techniques.” (Jun, Disabilities)
In Employment, Business and Work:
Using Machine Learning to Identify Educational Predictors of Career and Job Satisfaction in Adults with Disabilities:
“Meeting the academic accommodation needs of disabled students is linked with lasting vocational success. This study underscores the associations between unmet academic accommodation needs and future job and career satisfaction, illuminated using novel machine learning techniques.” (Jun, Disabilities)
In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities:
The State of Disabled LGBTQI+ People in 2024. “Nearly half of all LGBTQI+ adults reported having a disability in the past year”. (Jul, CAP)
In Health:
Medicaid was my passport to the world. (Aug, Cognoscenti)
Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate People with Disabilities and Their Communities. “Cutting Medicaid strips essential home and community-based medical services from people with disabilities.” (Aug, Inequality.org)
The Late Patty Berne Was a Visionary Leader in the Disability Justice Movement. (Aug, Truthout)
Remembering Patty Berne, an architect of the disability justice movement. (Aug, The 19th News)
How Stacey Park Milbern Found Power in Disability Identity. (Aug, Smithsonian American Women's History Museum)
In Her Own Words: Remembering and Honoring Stacey Park Milbern (Aug, AAPD)
In Remembrance of Patty Berne, January 21, 1967 – May 29, 2025. (Aug, Disability Visibility Project)
Review of 'Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum'. “In Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum, Michael Rembis fundamentally shifts the conversation on the history of madness away from medical perspectives to center mad voices and experiences.” (Jul, H-Net)
In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees:
Assessing Barriers & Support for Refugees with Disabilities in U.S. Resettlement Programs. (Link to pdf, Jul, USICD)
We are not ok... And we will keep resisting. Reflections on ICE raids, protests, and disability, from someone disabled and previously undocumented:
‘There were many reasons my parents decided to stay in the United States but one of the major factors was that my parents realized that my brother and I, as children with disabilities, would have educational and medical opportunities here that we would be denied in Mexico. From one day to another, we “became” undocumented, and this came at a huge price for all our family involved. The educational opportunities that we gained came at the cost of deep trauma, family separation, and state violence, to name a few.’ (Jul, Conchita Consulting)
ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant “after holding him for months without interpreter”. (Jul, Cal Matters)
In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization:
The Madden Sisters Don’t Want to Be Institutionalized. “Medicaid pays for most of the in-home care that lets disabled Americans live independently. Will coming cuts put that care in jeopardy?” (Aug, New York Times)
Review of 'Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum'. “In Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum, Michael Rembis fundamentally shifts the conversation on the history of madness away from medical perspectives to center mad voices and experiences.” (Jul, H-Net)
Special Commission on State Institutions Reports:
“Our two-year investigation is the first state-sanctioned human rights inquiry into institutionalization led by people with disabilities. It came about because of widespread concern that the documents and records that tell the story of the state’s treatment of people with disabilities were being kept from survivors, descendants, scholars, and the public, while the records themselves were being mishandled, lost, sold on private markets, and destroyed.” (Jan, Massachusetts)
In Justice Systems and Legal Capacity:
An Intersectional Approach to Advocacy on Prison and Jail Conditions:
“This paper examines the profound and disproportionate harms caused by mass incarceration in the U.S., with a focus on pretrial detention and the experiences of multiply marginalized individuals, particularly disabled people, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those at the intersections of these identities.” (Jun, Safety + Justice Challenge)
In Lived Experience and Opinion:
Yield: An comic illustrating the dehumainzing bureaucracy: “To survive as a disabled person, I have to give away so much of myself.” (Aug, Crucial Comix)
Joy in Hard Times: Celebrating Disability Pride During a Crisis. (Jul, Mother Jones)
The Truth About the R-Word, From the People It Hurts Most. “The R-word is everywhere again. It’s showing up on social media, in schools, in entertainment, in the media, and in everyday conversations.” (Jun, The Arc)
In Mental Health:
Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear. (Aug, Mother Jones)
In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism:
I have an invisible disability. Getting travel accommodations is tough. (Jun, Washington Post)
Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade: “DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.” (Aug, Mother Jones)
Trump’s Promise to End Vote-by-Mail Is Yet Another Attack on Disabled Voters. (Aug, Mother Jones)
Disabled Rage “In 2025, disabled people feel fear, anxiety, and rage about what is happening in the United States under a fascist President and Administration.” (Aug, Disability Visibility Project)
The Trump Administration’s War on Disability.
“Executive actions, budget cuts, layoffs, and legislation—all enacted in the Trump administration’s first six months—have curtailed disability rights and services, including access to Medicaid and the right to free, appropriate public education.” (Jul, CAP)
The Americans With Disabilities Act changed my life.
“This truth is hitting me hard this summer. The ADA and I have come of age together, but modern life — and the future — now look different than I once thought it would.” (Jul, Los Angeles Times)
National Disability Groups Condemn Executive Order Taking Away Civil Liberties:
“This Executive Order appears aimed at upending decades of established Supreme Court precedent and eliminating basic protections that prevent the arbitrary confinement of people based on a disability. We cannot go back to the times when people’s liberty could be taken away with no rhyme or reason, or for reasons like revenge or punishment,” (Jul, DREDF)
In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights:
What’s It Like to Date While Disabled? Four women reflect on dating and disability. (Aug, Cup of Jo)
Much higher rates of loneliness faced by working-age adults with disabilities:
“The analysis found that nearly one third of adults with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 64 reported persistent feelings of loneliness in a national survey that asked how often they felt a lack of companionship, left out, or isolated.” (Aug, News Medical Life Sciences)
Dobbs, Disability, and the Assault on Reproductive Autonomy. “Disabled people have always faced reproductive oppression, but the post-Dobbs reality has made the stakes even more life-threatening.” (Jul, ABA)
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Oceania
Australia
In Civil Society and Community:
What are the social and medical models of disability, and how do they differ? (Aug, ABC News)
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New Zealand
In Culture, Entertainment and Media:
Taking the mic as Deaf and disabled slam poets. (Jul, The D*List)
In Digital Accessibility and Technology:
Let’s commit to supporting each other - not generative AI. An argument that “AI cannot fill the human-shaped tear in the fabric of our community” which at the same time recognises the reasons disabled people might seek it out:
“Some disabled users report feeling guilty about having to turn to AI for seemingly simple tasks, but when the services you rely on are stripped of their funding (think full-time care, a specialised medical team, subsidised travel expenses etc), it makes sense that you’d use non-human automated systems instead. The AI has to do what you tell it to. AI won’t tell you that you’re a burden or refuse to help you. It won’t put you on hold or doubt your experiences.” (Jul, The D*List)
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South America
Argentina
In Civil Society and Community:
Disabled people protest in Buenos Aires against Milei's veto of aid increases. (In Spanish, Aug, UH)
Argentina’s senate delivers blow to Milei’s agenda overturning veto on disability benefits. (Sep, The Hill)
Argentina’s Javier Milei vetoes bills that would have raised pensions and disability benefits. (Aug, the Guardian)
Scandal facing sister of Argentina's president: “Public outrage is growing as an investigation digs into whether president Javier Milei's sister, Karina, accepted vast sums of cash in kickbacks from pharmaceutical sales to Argentina's disability services agency.” (Aug, RFI)
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Colombia
In Economics and Social Protection:
Disability Certification in Colombia: An Analysis from the Perspective of Inclusive Social Protection:
“Given that the certification of disability in Colombia mainly aims to identify individuals living with a disability and does not conduct a needs assessment or collect additional information, it is not possible to use it to assess and design social protection programmes for this group. The mismatch between the objectives is one of the reasons why individuals do not see the added value of having a disability certification, and it is not clear what their benefits are or how it can contribute to the inclusion of people with disabilities in social programmes.” (Jul, Disabilities)
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Paraguay
UN Office Welcomes New Law on the rights of persons with disabilities, a “paradigm shift in the protection of human rights of persons with disabilities”. (In Spanish, Jul, UN)
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