Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...

When children with disabilities experience discrimination, new research finds that the consequences may extend to their physical well-being. A study looking at more than 24,000 kids with special ...

Curbing disability discrimination in the workplace is everyone’s responsibility. And it’s unfair, though all too common, to place all of the burden on people with disabilities to absorb, defuse, or ...

An “urgent need for systemic change” to address disability-based discrimination has been highlighted by the executive officer of the Human Rights Commission in her annual report. Lisa Reed said that ...

David Roy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Disability Discrimination Act remains one of Australia’s most important human rights laws, but for it to protect people effectively, everyone — whether in the government or in the community — ...

Kelsey Chapman receives research funding from the Queensland Government. She is a member of the Metro South Health Disability Community Advisory Committee and Health Translation Queensland. Elizabeth ...

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that public school students with disabilities may pursue discrimination lawsuits under the same standard of proof that applies when people sue other ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published Tuesday an updated Americans with Disabilities Act guidance containing information about how the law applies to job applicants and employees ...

Learn details about a disability discrimination case against the federal agency that operates a Native American boarding school in Salem. The complaint was filed in 2021 by a special ed teacher with ...