disability rights
Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I’m on a mission to change that
Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I’m on a mission to change that
Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s new book Ramping Up Rights tells the stories of disability rights movements that have been forgotten in history. This is an extract from the book
Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: ‘I can’t make it make sense’
Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: ‘I can’t make it make sense’
Thousands of disabled people receive the Access to Work payment. But could it be at risk?
Deaf President Now! and the greatest civil rights movement you’ve probably never heard of
Deaf President Now! and the greatest civil rights movement you’ve probably never heard of
Deaf President Now! co-directors Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim chat to the Big Issue about disability rights, protest and whether they would like to see a deaf president take Donald Trump’s spot in the White House
Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer
Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer
Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system – they deserve better
Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system – they deserve better
We must learn from Covid and ensure that disabled people are never again neglected
We must learn from Covid and ensure that disabled people are never again neglected
Labour’s rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty
Labour’s rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty
Here’s how to make your voice heard against the DWP’s disability benefit cuts
Here’s how to make your voice heard against the DWP’s disability benefit cuts
Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic
Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic
The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people
The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people
Fats Timbo: ‘It was hard growing up with dwarfism – but I’m going to change the world’
Fats Timbo: ‘It was hard growing up with dwarfism – but I’m going to change the world’
‘I had to pay £75 for a chopping board’: This is how much extra being disabled costs me
‘I had to pay £75 for a chopping board’: This is how much extra being disabled costs me
The care system fails millions of disabled people – we can’t wait till 2028 for the government to act
The care system fails millions of disabled people – we can’t wait till 2028 for the government to act
From Paralympic glory to assisted dying: These are the highs and lows of 2024 for disabled people
From Paralympic glory to assisted dying: These are the highs and lows of 2024 for disabled people
‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate
‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate
These children are going blind – so their parents gave them memories to last a lifetime
These children are going blind – so their parents gave them memories to last a lifetime
DWP benefit reforms to get people into work are ‘smokescreen for cuts’, disability activist says
DWP benefit reforms to get people into work are ‘smokescreen for cuts’, disability activist says
Disabled people losing jobs and ‘falling out of work’ due to months-long waits for DWP support
Disabled people losing jobs and ‘falling out of work’ due to months-long waits for DWP support
‘Where will it stop?’: DWP to get ‘direct access to bank accounts’ in benefit fraud crackdown
‘Where will it stop?’: DWP to get ‘direct access to bank accounts’ in benefit fraud crackdown
Disabled people are paid £2 an hour less at work. Here’s how to change this grossly unfair situation
Disabled people are paid £2 an hour less at work. Here’s how to change this grossly unfair situation
DWP plans to spy on claimants’ bank accounts will pile misery onto disabled people
DWP plans to spy on claimants’ bank accounts will pile misery onto disabled people
Actor Adam Pearson: ‘I wake up every morning, let the universe kick my arse and then carry on’
Actor Adam Pearson: ‘I wake up every morning, let the universe kick my arse and then carry on’
DWP’s uncertainty over future of PIP leaves benefit claimants in fear: ‘What’s going to happen to me?’
DWP’s uncertainty over future of PIP leaves benefit claimants in fear: ‘What’s going to happen to me?’
Millions of Brits ‘locked out’ of cycling due to complete lack of bike parking, report finds
Millions of Brits ‘locked out’ of cycling due to complete lack of bike parking, report finds
Disabled renters hoped Labour would bring change. Are they actually any different to the Tories?
