Though there's still no official plan to transfer the duties out of the Education Department, advocates are voicing concerns ...

UN experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on Tuesday cautioned that a pending amendment to Peru's General Law on Persons with Disabilities risks ...

More work needs to be done to ensure Manitoba's children all have a fair chance to learn how to read, a new report says.

Standards bodies, access to information technology, and human rights / Judy Brewer -- Accessible ICTs and the opening of political space for persons with disabilities / Janet E. Lord -- Web ...

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 ...

More than 100 people with learning disabilities and autism were "locked away" in hospitals across Greater Manchester as of ...

Manitoba's NDP government has agreed to support a Liberal bill on universal screening for learning disabilities in early ...

The focus of this contribution is on how rights protection officers (RPOs) experience supporting parents with intellectual disabilities involved in child protection investigations. We situate the role ...

(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 ...

Opening the workshop, NHRC Chairperson Emmanuel D. Joof emphasised the importance of collaboration in promoting human rights and national development. “We are all in it together,” he stated, urging ...

Dyscalculia is a severe and persistent learning disability in math that affects about 5 to 8 percent of school-age children. Due to its impact on students’ ability to learn and retain basic math facts ...

Human Rights Watch[1] welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the “Committee”) in advance of its upcoming review of Kazakhstan. The ...