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29 Aug 2008, 2:31 pm
Michael Connolly (Univ. of Surrey (UK)) provides this no-so good news for disability rights advocates from across the pond. [read post]
5 Oct 2013, 3:42 am
Do you know what your rights are to public or private insurance? [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 12:06 pm
Disability Rights Maryland investigated the lockup in response to the November 2017 suicide of an inmate with serious mental health issues. ... [read post]
26 May 2007, 5:02 am
The National Disability Rights Network serves a wide range of individuals with disabilities - including, but not limited to, those with cognitive, mental, sensory, and physical disabilities - by guarding against abuse; advocating for basic rights; and ensuring accountability in health care, education, employment, housing, transportation, and within the juvenile and criminal justice systems. [read post]
4 Dec 2012, 2:57 pm
According to advocates, disabled Americans often find themselves struggling to retain custody of their children for no reason other than their disability. [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 7:33 pm
The second context is what I call “disability frame advocacy”: when scholars and advocates use disability rights frameworks and disability as metaphor to advocate for resources, recognition, and redress for members of oppressed groups who do not live with disabilities. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 10:15 am
Disability Rights California, a non-profit that advocates for the rights of the disabled, recently released a report finding that the physical abuse of disabled adults in nursing homes are frequently not treated as crimes. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 7:02 pm
This Article therefore calls scholars, legislators, judges, and advocates to adopt a bio-psycho-social model of disability and to avoid the use of disability as metaphor and prevent backlash against disability rights and the further marginalization of people with disabilities. [read post]
21 Oct 2017, 8:17 pm
Advocates for students with disabilities were still reviewing the changes to determine their impact. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 5:37 am
In the context of long term disability law, whether you refer to your legal representative as a lawyer or an attorney, what truly matters is their expertise and dedication to advocating for your rights. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 12:13 pm
CHICAGO (AP) – A settlement in a class-action lawsuit over the right of people with disabilities to choose where they live is being hailed as a money-saving milestone by advocates and Illinois officials. [read post]
27 May 2021, 6:03 am
Citizens with disabilities have as much right to vote as anyone else, and our election systems should fully accommodate them. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 11:00 am
A threatening Department of Justice letter details civil rights violations across the state's dozen institutions, which care for the mentally disabled and some with physical disabilities. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 2:05 pm
House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would amend the Americans with Disabilities Act over objections from disability rights advocates and Democratic leaders, who warned that the bill would remove incentives for businesses to comply with the law. [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 2:36 pm
For disabled rights advocates, this is just another promise to do something else in the future which will never come to fruition. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 3:06 pm
As a clinician working on Kennedy Krieger Institute’s neurobehavioral unit more than a decade ago, Maureen van Stone saw the critical importance of advocating for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and severe problem behaviors. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 7:32 am
Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, appeared yesterday alongside the ACLU's Jamil Dakwar and other leading experts and advocates at a briefing sponsored by the ACLU, Human Rights Advocates, Penal Reform International, and the Swiss Mission to the United Nations. [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 9:11 am
In addition, they also advocate politically for disability rights. [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 2:45 pm
Everyone deserves the right to control their own bodies. [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 2:45 pm
Everyone deserves the right to control their own bodies. [read post]
