People with disabilities face discrimination in all areas of life. However, disabled women face especially bigger challenges, ...

As the United Nations Security Council prepares for Protection of Civilians Week 2025 on May 19-23, when many stakeholders gather to advance ways to protect civilians in armed conflict, UN member ...

The policy ensures persons with disabilities are not passive recipients but active participants in decisions affecting their ...

A decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court on September 25, 2025, risks undermining meaningful participation by people with ...

GENEVA (AP) — A team of human rights experts has faulted the world’s nations for not doing more to ensure minimum protections of people with disabilities in Gaza, whose numbers have been growing since ...

Framing disability rights as “extras,” is a form of erasure. Disabled people are not a special interest group.

Standards bodies, access to information technology, and human rights / Judy Brewer -- Accessible ICTs and the opening of political space for persons with disabilities / Janet E. Lord -- Web ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the Mexico Supreme Court's decision to deemphasize legislative consultation with people with disabilities prior to enactment of law that may effect ...

The next Scottish government needs to listen to disabled people and take action to ensure the systemic change needed to realise their rights, according to a new manifesto drawn up by a national ...

Doha: Minister of Social Development and Family HE Buthaina bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi has hailed the newly issued law on ...

The National Commission for Human Rights released its annual report for the 2024/2025 fiscal year on October 15, highlighting progress, persisting gaps, and emerging trends in the protection and ...

MADRID, July 14 (Reuters) - A Spanish disability rights group has vowed legal action over the reported hiring of people with dwarfism as entertainment at Barcelona soccer star Lamine Yamal's recent ...