“WeThe15 aspires to be the biggest ever human rights movement for persons with disabilities and aims to put disability right at the heart of the inclusion agenda, alongside ethnicity, gender and ...

Heumann was an internationally recognised leader of the disability rights movement whose activism led ... to her life-long dedication to fight for civil rights. The American Association of People ...

He witnessed firsthand the origins of the movement, as his mother and father played integral roles in advancing disability rights. According to Shaw, one of the earliest victories was a 1966 ...

there has been serious movement toward an international treaty on disability rights. The General Assembly adopted resolution in 2001 which established an ad hoc committee to work on such a treaty.

Yet despite nearly fifty years of civil rights advocacy and legislative victories ... divide in education and offers starting points for charting a path forward informed by radical anti-ableism and ...

North Carolina civil rights leader Rev. William J. Barber II held a news conference Friday promoting disability awareness after he was kicked out of a movie theater for bringing his own chair to ...