Disability advocates warn that staffing cuts and organizational upheaval at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) are undermining the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) capacity to enforce federal ...
Black, brown, and elderly CHA residents languished and died, their names sitting on a de facto waiting list for nearly a decade before their much needed and deserved reasonable accommodations were ...
Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...
Forty years ago, disability advocates abandoned the LGBTQ+ community in exchange for legal protections. Decades later, they are fighting a Trump administration rule to roll-back more safeguards for ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts. The second-grade student stumbled over ...
In a new twist in a long-running lawsuit, a coalition of states is challenging the right of people with disabilities to live ...
Last year, Republican attorneys general in 17 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), asking courts to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. Section 504 is part of the ...
A new bill would prohibit discrimination based on a parent's disabilities. Some disability rights advocates are uniting behind an anti-discrimination bill. Senate Bill 26 would preent disabled parents ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the Congress of Mexico City to 'seriously consider' a proposal submitted by a disability rights coalition during its new session. The proposal by Cuidados ...
The Mexico City Congress should seriously consider a proposal submitted by a coalition led by people with disabilities during ...
Disability Rights California has condemned the wave of state-sponsored violence and called for an end to policies that it ...
The Long Island facility is fully accessible and features 14 portals that peer into different moments in disability history.