On March 1 every year, communities gather to read aloud the names of disabled people killed by their caregivers. Friends, volunteers, and community residents attend a candlelight vigil for slain ...

The anniversary of the law that transformed education for children with disabilities, honoring progress and inclusion.

In the past, the National Center on Disability and Journalism’s disability language style guide prioritized the use of person-first language — advising language like “person with a disability,” for ...

Established by the United Nations in 1992, the goal of the International Day of Persons With Disabilities is to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society ...

The first International Day of Persons with Disability (World Disability Day-WDD) that I celebrated was in New Delhi, India, in 2009. Before my Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) assignment with the ...

COVID-19 Likely Resulted in 1.2 Million More Disabled People by the End of 2021—Workplaces and Policy Will Need to Adapt Workplaces will need to adapt to significant increases to both the disabled ...

I thank the Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda, the International Disability Alliance, and the UN Sustainable Development Group, for inviting me to speak. Today, we recognize the International ...

Today, the world population is over 7 billion people and more than one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability; 80 per cent live in ...