A group of Michigan lawmakers is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to explain why it took back more than ...

Friday marks the 34th anniversary since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed, empowering and helping thousands across Iowa. The Human Rights Office of Iowa City holds these trainings ...

The Disabled People's Rights Plan aims to give people more rights across a range of areas in Wales. But critics have said ...

Disability Rights International recently won a major case before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission establishing a right to community integration of children and adults with disabilities.

HB1382, sponsored by Rep. Jack Ladyman (R-Jonesboro) only targets Disability Rights Arkansas, or DRA, one of 57 protection and advocacy agencies in the United States and its territories.

Ortiz Mendoza explained that issues such as disability, human rights, and basic accessibility criteria for this part of the population were discussed. Moreover, Melva Adriana Olvera Rodríguez, Deputy ...

The Guidelines on deinstitutionalization, adopted by the UN expert body on disability rights in 2022, call on governments to “abolish all forms of institutionalization, end new placements in ...

Disability rights activist Garret Frey is checked by Kelly Kirkpatrick, a registered nurse, outside Frey’s home in Cedar Rapids in July. Frey advocates for services that allow people with ...

As we mark the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) this week in 1990 and the 10th anniversary of Human Rights Watch’s work on disability rights this year, I think about the ...

Voters with disabilities still confront obstacles to voting—a basic human and civil right. Although some strides have been made in recent years towards restoring access for all voters, according to a ...

William & Mary Law School Professor Michael Stein has played an integral part in the international Ad Hoc Committee that has been meeting for five years to draft a United Nations disability human ...