As federal officials look to clarify recent rules designed to bar disability discrimination in health care, a long-simmering ...

Attorney and activist Lydia X. Z. Brown, a Chinese American with a non-conforming gender, knows what it’s like to experience discrimination because of race, ethnicity and sexual expression. Brown, who ...

WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), and 80 other disability rights, civil rights, and public health organizations sent a letter to Secretary of ...

The Center for American Progress recently hosted a summit with more than 50 advocates from the reproductive and disability rights communities to identify the most pressing policy priorities they face.

Hochul has previously defended the transition, calling it a much-needed reform. A spokesperson for the governor said this ...

During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...

Last week, a mask ban in Nassau County, New York was signed into law. If I lived just 60 miles east of my New Jersey town, I would be under threat of a fine or jail time every time I left the house. I ...

Washington, D.C. leaders are mourning the loss of a "fierce champion" for disability rights, Mathew McCollough.

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services office complex at Dorothea Dix Park North Carolina's health agency and a nonprofit defending people with intellectual and development ...

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 ...

Key parts of the Welsh government's flagship plan to improve disabled people's rights need to be rewritten, according to the equalities watchdog. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has ...