(New York) – Hilda Macheso, a Malawian disability rights advocate, is the 2025/2026 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Human ...

Comprehensive vision of human experience Our local schools and public institutions are the bedrock of our democracy and society. Honoring the disability community's human rights is a global challenge.

Young people with disabilities, in addition to medical care, often have a number of supports designed to foster social ...

Complaints to Bermuda’s Human Rights Commission continue to follow an upward trend, with issues relating to employment, ...

(New York) – Mariana Lozano, a young activist from Colombia, is the 2023 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Leadership in Disability Rights, Human Rights Watch announced ...

Human rights must include disability rights, and disability rights must include racial and women’s rights. According to the CDC, “Over one in four adults in the United States lives with a disability.” ...

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...

Three in 10 LGBTQ+ youth have at least one formally diagnosed disability, making them particularly vulnerable to in-school victimization and exclusion, according to a new report. The 2024 Disabled ...

1. National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) from the Commonwealth and Asia Pacific region, consisting of NHRIs from Afghanistan, Australia, Fiji, Ghana, India, Iran ...