In 2025, Georgia enacted a landmark reform that lowers the burden of proof for intellectual disability in death penalty cases ...

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 ...

Canada’s immigration detention system discriminates against people with disabilities, including through widespread violations of their right to make crucial decisions about their own lives. Instead of ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

Every person has the right to lead a meaningful life. For people with disabilities, this means living in and integrating with a community of their choice, forming genuine relationships, pursuing job ...

A family wonders how a cousin “slipped through the cracks” and wound up in a state nursing facility not long after her 18th birthday; a mother wonders how she lost her daughter to the same system; and ...

Pope Francis blesses a woman as he greets people who have disabilities following Mass in St. Peter’s Square on June 17, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring) The recently released Vatican document “Dignitas ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the “Committee”) in advance of its upcoming public session on the situation of ...

GENEVA (AP) — A team of human rights experts has faulted the world’s nations for not doing more to ensure minimum protections of people with disabilities in Gaza, whose numbers have been growing since ...

People with physical, mental, and developmental disabilities have long been discriminated against and marginalized across the globe, but the roots of disability inequity and its social consequences ...

Children with disabilities are getting swept up in the Trump administration’s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and its push to end the Education Department, advocates say. So far, ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended that inconveniences faced by people with disabilities and others ...