There is a saying that a person has two deaths: the first happens when they physically die, and the second takes place when ...

Disability rights groups throughout the country have voiced their opposition to the lawsuit. The Arc of Texas, which ...

On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses--which didn't have wheelchair lifts--to demand access to public transit.

Attorney and activist Lydia X. Z. Brown, a Chinese American with a non-conforming gender, knows what it’s like to experience discrimination because of race, ethnicity and sexual expression. Brown, who ...

December 3 marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day where we mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. To mark the occasion, we're ...

Structured, court-ordered treatment is the right course of action for some brain disorder patients. In such cases, ideology ...

Last week marked National Disability Voting Rights Week, a critical time to address the challenges faced by over 33 million Americans with disabilities — a group too often overlooked and ...

Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more.

Seventeen. That’s the number of states suing the US government to end federal protections for disabled individuals. 880 billion. That’s the amount of money that Congress is primed to cut from Medicaid ...

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services office complex at Dorothea Dix Park North Carolina's health agency and a nonprofit defending people with intellectual and development ...

Key parts of the Welsh government's flagship plan to improve disabled people's rights need to be rewritten, according to the equalities watchdog. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has ...