Some recent international perspectives on disability

Disability rights around the world: from 1944 to the present day
The Guardian, 22 June 2016
Since the second world war, disability legislation has increased substantially, but there’s still a long way to go ...

Disability-inclusive development isn’t cheap, but exclusion has a higher price  

Polly Meeks, The Guardian, 22 June 2016

At a parliamentary meeting on the case for disability-inclusive development three years ago, one MP playing devil’s advocate said: “Yes, but isn’t this all too costly?”

Mixed Progress at UN on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Lyndal Rowlands, Inter Press Service, 21 June 2016

Nearly 10 years after UN members adopted a progressive Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), progress implementing the convention has been mixed, even at the UN itself, say disability advocates ...

We need to stop treating people with disabilities as less than human 

Shantha Rau Barriga, The Guardian, 20 June 2016

In the many countries I’ve visited over the past several years while researching conditions for people with disabilities, the one constant – and haunting – refrain I’ve heard from people with disabilities has been: “I am treated as less than human.”

Women representation in world disability forums shrinking

Myra Imran, The News, 27 June 2016

Pakistan’s voice of women with disability and known disability rights activist Abia Akram on Sunday expressed concern over the fact that the representation of women in international disability forums is shrinking ...