The continued challenges for Egypt’s disabled
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View Article‘ACTA and SOPA for the blind’: US, EU block treaty benefiting the visually...
A blind man walks with his guide dog (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)The US and the EU are adamantly defending media copyright laws in their latest attempt to tackle counterfeit goods online. But while...
View ArticleRichard (RJ) Eskow: Veterans on a Cliff
Every year our leaders honor our nation's veterans with flags and parades. Are they also about to betray them this year with a backroom deal? Words won't be enough this time. Our returning warriors...
View ArticleSantorum joins Sen. Lee to oppose UN treaty on disabled rights
At a press conference on Monday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) joined former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association to voice opposition to a United Nations...
View ArticleCreepy ‘isolation booth’ used to lock up disabled students
A chamber, eerily reminiscent of the infamous “padded rooms” of psychiatric hospitals, exists in Mint Valley Elementary School for unruly children. … Read More
View ArticleWhat the Republican Party has become
The failure of the Senate on Tuesday to ratify a U.N. treaty aimed at creating equal opportunity for disabled people around says a lot about the modern evolution of the Republican Party.It was...
View ArticleFull Show 12/5/12: Guns Kill People
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View ArticleFive charged with hate crimes for kidnapping mentally disabled people
US authorities on Wednesday announced hate crime charges against a gang accused of imprisoning mentally disabled people in a decade-long scheme to steal their Social Security benefits. The charges...
View ArticleSchools must provide sports for disabled, US says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Students with disabilities must be given a fair shot to play on a traditional sports team or have their own leagues, the Education Department says.Disabled students who want to play...
View ArticleDisabled in Gaza
Disabled people in Gaza fight for their rights, proving they are producers not consumers amid ignorance from the local authorities … Read More
View ArticleThe fatal choice between food or heating in Modern Britain
Senior Citizens and Disabled people say they're being abandoned by society. Thousands are left to die in cold homes every year in the UK, while energy companies threaten to raise cost of heating...
View ArticleMagnitsky case caused by tax evasion, not whistleblowing – Russian investigators
“The statements that the criminal prosecution of Magnitskywas connected with his attempts to uncover the law enforcers’complicity in the embezzlement of 5.4 billion rubles ($180 million)in state funds...
View ArticleThousand protest UK’s ‘bedroom tax’ (PHOTOS)
In Glasgow, around 2,500 people, including trade unionists and people from disabled groups, packed the city Centre while approximately 1,000 people demonstrated outside Downing Street and Trafalgar...
View ArticleThousands of disabled Britons ‘condemned to life without basic dignity’ as...
An average payout of £300 per week enables disabled people to hire assistants to help them with their routine needs, and to stay active and social. Many fear that once the fund is scrapped, they will...
View ArticleAmazon adds visual accessibility features to Kindle reading app for iOS
Amazon has updated their Kindle reading app for iOS to include new accessibility features for people that are blind or visually impaired. A new read-aloud feature that uses Apple’s VoiceOver...
View ArticleToday’s Scuttlebot: Robot Legs Pass Test, and Going Global With Stolen Phones
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Monday's selections include a battery-powered exoskeleton for the legs that can help elderly...
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