It's 25 years since the Disability Discrimination Act became law, but the campaign for equality goes on. Here, six people close to the legislation - having fought for it, used it or worked with it - ...

Mr. Ne’eman is a doctoral candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and a visiting scholar at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis. He previously served as executive director of the ...

On a sunny day nearly 50 years ago, disability rights protesters disrupted the opening of a new but inaccessible railway station at Bondi Junction. They were reportedly spat at and told to “go back to ...

There is a new state law that will help first responders assist individuals with disabilities when responding to countywide 9-1-1 calls.

The laws have not undergone significant change in nearly 40 years. The overhaul aims to improve outcomes for the one in six Australians living with a disability. It will take recommendations from the ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) recognizes obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as a disability if it affects an individual’s ability to do essential daily activities, such as work. OCD is a ...

Kali Larsen sat at her desk at Fruitland Elementary School in Idaho earlier this year, trying to read the test questions as her classmates silently worked around her. Her anxiety climbed as she stared ...

Disability rights groups argue that a new guardianship law creates a two-tier system that strips people with intellectual ...

Legal protection applies to “... an individual who has a mental or physical impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities and has a record of having such an impairment; or is ...

(Bangkok) – The Cambodian government should revise a draft disability law to ensure equal rights for people with disabilities in accordance with international human rights law, Human Rights Watch said ...

"No otherwise qualified person with a disability in the United States shall solely by reason of his or her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected ...