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  "description": "Latest international disability inclusion news across 36 subjects",
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  "tags": [
    "Library",
    "country",
    "Accessibility and Design",
    "Canada",
    "Disability advocates urge Toronto, province",
    "India",
    "A Swiss photographer’s journey",
    "United States",
    "Snowstorms Are Hell for Wheelchair Users",
    "Housing",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Disabled people in England ‘betrayed’",
    "Assistive Technology",
    "Kazakhstan",
    "Assistive Technologies",
    "Civil Society and Community",
    "International News",
    "2025 Was a Year of Collective Mourning for Disabled Communities.",
    "Germany",
    "“Accessibility is the key to an inclusive society”.",
    "Nigeria",
    "You can’t pick palm nuts",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Disability charity chief condemns UK government",
    "United States",
    "Disability Justice Organizers",
    "The ‘R-Word’ Returns,",
    "Climate Crisis and Environment",
    "Conference of Parties (COP)",
    "International News",
    "Disability & Climate Change @COP30.",
    "Communication and Language",
    "Sign Languages",
    "New Zealand",
    "Fear of language loss",
    "Digital NZSL library",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Sign language interpreters",
    "United States",
    "Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter",
    "interview with the interpreter",
    "Trump administration says sign language services",
    "Braille",
    "International News",
    "How Louis Braille’s musical notation system",
    "Egypt",
    "New Braille-Accessible Public Library",
    "Conflict and Peace",
    "International News",
    "‘The system has failed’:",
    "Israel",
    "Two brothers, one mission:",
    "Myanmar",
    "Inclusion amid crisis:",
    "Syria",
    "Disability and the Political Afterlife of Violence:",
    "Israel-Palestine Conflict",
    "Israel",
    "Emerging from war,",
    "Palestine",
    "The hidden struggles",
    "Falling within the Cracks:",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Disability Charity Sacks Employee",
    "Culture, Entertainment and Media",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability",
    "Leatherhead disability group",
    "United States",
    "Mattel launches its first autistic Barbie.",
    "Media",
    "International News",
    "Disabled-led media will shape the future of journalism.",
    "Europe",
    "Guidelines",
    "Clothing and Fashion",
    "Croatia",
    "People With Disabilities Star at Inclusive Fashion Show in Croatia.",
    "Data and Research",
    "Israel",
    "Life Expectancy Falls, Disabilities Surge:",
    "Uzbekistan",
    "The absence of questions",
    "Research",
    "United States",
    "A Call Out to Disability Studies and Mad Studies Scholars:",
    "Digital Accessibility and Technology",
    "International News",
    "Designing accessibility for real use,",
    "Eric Bailey's predictions",
    "Digital Accessibility Ethics:",
    "Android accessibility updates",
    "Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities:",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Scottish judge",
    "Social Media",
    "International News",
    "Public Statement Condemning Derogatory and Dehumanising Content",
    "TikTok Adds More Accessibility Features.",
    "Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response",
    "Mozambique",
    "People with disabilities",
    "Economics and Social Protection",
    "Financial Inclusion",
    "Ghana",
    "Inclusive Finance in Action.",
    "Kenya",
    "High Court’s affirmation",
    "Social Protection",
    "Argentina",
    "Milei's government announces the closure",
    "Armenia",
    "Armenia's Disability Assessment Reform.",
    "Guyana",
    "One-off grant for persons with disabilities",
    "New Zealand",
    "Whaikaha, Whaimana:",
    "United States",
    "Low-Income Disabled Youth Face Significant Challenges Upon Coming of Age.",
    "Education and Childhood",
    "Sierra Leone",
    "“I always climb the bench like a mountain”:",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Whether the government likes it or not,",
    "United States",
    "Born Deaf and Blind,",
    "Higher Education",
    "International News",
    "This is our rhythm:",
    "Canada",
    "How Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff:",
    "United States",
    "The Atlantic’s ‘Accommodation Nation’",
    "More Harvard Undergrads Are Reporting Disabilities,",
    "No, Colleges Do Not “Over-Accommodate”.",
    "Employment, Business and Work",
    "International News",
    "Global Disability Legislation Index:",
    "France",
    "In France, Rehabilitation Produces a Watchmaker.",
    "Indonesia",
    "Celebrating inclusivity and creativity",
    "Serbia",
    "Why Serbia is experiencing a decline",
    "United Kingdom",
    "A better understanding of disability",
    "United States",
    "The Problem With Palantir’s New Neurodivergent Fellowship:",
    "Mamdani Pledges",
    "Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities",
    "Nigeria",
    "‘Every step a struggle:’",
    "History and Memorial",
    "United Kingdom",
    "In memory of Graham Findlay.",
    "Stigma, trust and the history of UK disability policy:",
    "United States",
    "Leslie Lee III,",
    "Major Victories in Advancing Disability Justice in Massachusetts.",
    "'Don't mourn, organize.'",
    "Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies:",
    "Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees",
    "Bangladesh",
    "Frailty and disability among older adults",
    "Nigeria",
    "‘Every step a struggle:’",
    "Uganda",
    "Disabled Sudanese refugees",
    "Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization",
    "Armenia",
    "Creating caring homes for children with disabilities:",
    "Canada",
    "Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking.",
    "New Zealand",
    "Family carers win landmark Supreme Court case",
    "United States",
    "Recent Changes to Immigration Policies",
    "Conditions in Institutions",
    "New Zealand",
    "20-year-old man dies",
    "United States",
    "Broken Care, Broken Lives:",
    "International Cooperation",
    "International News",
    "Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities:",
    "Mozambique",
    "Mozambique, China maintain close cooperation",
    "Venezuela",
    "UNDP Venezuela presents",
    "Justice Systems and Legal Capacity",
    "Indonesia",
    "Disability and Due Process.",
    "Kenya",
    "High Court’s affirmation",
    "Mexico",
    "New Guide",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Scottish judge",
    "United States",
    "I’m autistic and have a brain injury.",
    "The Danger ICE Poses to the Disabled Community.",
    "Woman dragged from car by ICE",
    "A Texas man detained by ICE",
    "AAPD Resources and News Sources",
    "Democracy Denied for Disabled Americans:",
    "Lived Experience and Opinion",
    "India",
    "In the quiet world of words:",
    "Trinidad and Tobago",
    "Searching for silence:",
    "United Kingdom",
    "‘You just feel so light!’:",
    "United States",
    "Autistic Barbie Doesn’t Represent Me.",
    "A Take on Disability Pride",
    "Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism",
    "United Kingdom",
    "What happened to the invalid carriage?",
    "The Politics of Parking",
    "United States",
    "His Job Is to Make the Subway Accessible.",
    "Policy and Rights",
    "International News",
    "Global Disability Legislation Index:",
    "Europe",
    "Interview with MEP Ciaran Mullooly:",
    "India",
    "Indian Constitution is ableist.",
    "Malta",
    "Thirty years on Malta’s disabled community",
    "Myanmar",
    "Myanmar’s disabled population",
    "Norway",
    "Norway Makes History.",
    "Paraguay",
    "Paraguay begins a new era",
    "United States",
    "Texas and Eight Other States",
    "Assisted Dying and Euthanasia",
    "Australia",
    "Australian ALS Patient Denied Disability Support,",
    "Politics and Elections",
    "Honduras",
    "People with disabilities voting in elections.",
    "South Sudan",
    "Disability groups call for inclusion",
    "Thailand",
    "Concerns raised over election accessibility",
    "United States",
    "Democracy Denied for Disabled Americans:",
    "Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights",
    "Cuba",
    "A full life for people with disabilities.",
    "Space Exploration",
    "International News",
    "Engineer becomes first wheelchair user",
    "Sport and Paralympics",
    "International News",
    "Unequal access to nature:",
    "FIFA’s ticketing policy",
    "United States",
    "Super Bowl has new accessibility measures"
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  "textContent": "**Library > February 2026**\n\n_This page is organized by subject, you can also see links organized bycountry._\n\nThis update has 116 curated links from 40 countries and regions, organized across 36 subjects.\n\n# Contents\n\n  * Accessibility and Design\n  * Assistive Technology\n  * Civil Society and Community\n  * Climate Crisis and Environment\n  * Communication and Language\n  * Conflict and Peace\n  * Culture, Entertainment and Media\n  * Data and Research\n  * Digital Accessibility and Technology\n  * Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response\n  * Economics and Social Protection\n  * Education and Childhood\n  * Employment, Business and Work\n  * Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities\n  * History and Memorial\n  * Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees\n  * Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization\n  * International Cooperation\n  * Justice Systems and Legal Capacity\n  * Lived Experience and Opinion\n  * Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism\n  * Policy and Rights\n  * Politics and Elections\n  * Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights\n  * Space Exploration\n  * Sport and Paralympics\n\n\n\n## Accessibility and Design\n\n### Overview\n\n#### Canada\n\nDisability advocates urge Toronto, province to plan ahead for winter accessibility challenges. (Jan, CBC)\n\n#### India\n\n A Swiss photographer’s journey to document accessibility in India. (2025, Telegraph India)\n\n#### United States\n\nSnowstorms Are Hell for Wheelchair Users —But They Don’t Have to Be. (Feb, Mother Jones)\n\n### Housing\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nDisabled people in England ‘betrayed’ by cuts to new-build accessibility targets. (2025, the Guardian)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Assistive Technology\n\n#### Kazakhstan\n\nAssistive Technologies Child’s Needs Assessment and Ecosystem in Kazakhstan. (2025, UNICEF)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Civil Society and Community\n\n#### International News\n\n2025 Was a Year of Collective Mourning for Disabled Communities. “If we can create and build on communal structures of care, we can hold that grief together more easily.” (Jan, Truthout)\n\n#### Germany\n\n“Accessibility is the key to an inclusive society”. Interview with Verena Bentele, president of the welfare association VdK. (2025)\n\n#### Nigeria\n\nYou can’t pick palm nuts  without your hands getting oily: Coming to terms with the liberation and flaws of Deaf community in Nigeria. (Feb, Disability Debrief)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nDisability charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE. Tressa Burke, chief executive of the Glasgow Disability Alliance:\n\n> ‘turned down an MBE in the New Year Honours over what she described as the \"simply intolerable\" situation facing disabled people in the UK.’ (2025, BBC)\n\n#### United States\n\nDisability Justice Organizers  share where they find hope in the struggle for disability justice as we go into the second year of Trump 2.0. (Jan, Truthout)\n\nThe ‘R-Word’ Returns,  Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It. (Jan, New York Times)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Climate Crisis and Environment\n\n### Conference of Parties (COP)\n\n#### International News\n\nDisability & Climate Change @COP30. “A public resource that aims to capture some of the deep and rich effort, research, advocacy, policy discussions, negotiations and progress made during COP30.” (2025, Sarah Boyd)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Communication and Language\n\n### Sign Languages\n\n#### New Zealand\n\nFear of language loss drives push to develop reo Māori signs for tāngata turi. (2025, Te Ao Māori News)\n\nDigital NZSL library to boost access for Deaf New Zealanders. (2025, Security Brief)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nSign language interpreters say job can be 'emotional whiplash'. (2025, BBC)\n\n#### United States\n\nBad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too: by interpreting in Puerto Rican Sign Language. (Feb, New York Times) See also an interview with the interpreter.\n\nTrump administration says sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image. (2025, AP News)\n\n### Braille\n\n#### International News\n\nHow Louis Braille’s musical notation system remains relevant 200 years after its invention. (Jan, ABC News)\n\n#### Egypt\n\nNew Braille-Accessible Public Library Opens in Maadi. (Jan, Cairo Scene)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Conflict and Peace\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\n‘The system has failed’: Giles Duley’s mission to reframe disability in war. (2025, UN)\n\n#### Israel\n\nTwo brothers, one mission: Living with muscular dystrophy, they refuse to give up on the IDF:\n\n> “After his older brother proved it was possible, 18-year-old Aviel Yosef David followed his path to volunteer in uniform, showing that disability does not define contribution”. (2025, Ynet News)\n\n#### Myanmar\n\nInclusion amid crisis: Ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities in post-coup Myanmar. (2025, International IDEA)\n\n#### Syria\n\nDisability and the Political Afterlife of Violence:  Reimagining Justice and Statehood in Post-Assad Syria:\n\n> “war-disabled Syrians are not merely passive victims; they are emerging as political actors. Through grassroots organizing, mutual aid networks, and advocacy campaigns, they are insisting on accessibility, inclusion, and accountability as foundational principles for Syria’s future. In doing so, they challenge binary narratives that cast them only as heroes or victims, asserting instead their right to shape the society they helped bring into being.” (2025, POMEPS)\n\n### Israel-Palestine Conflict\n\n#### Israel\n\nEmerging from war,  Israel’s disability system faces a defining test:\n\n> “The events of the past year have made clear that accessibility is not a niche issue but a national resilience measure. Emergencies expose weak points quickly: unreadable signage at clinics, inaccessible updates for people with sensory disabilities, insufficient transport options for those with mobility challenges and overstretched mental-health services.” (2025, JNS)\n\n#### Palestine\n\nThe hidden struggles  of people with disabilities in Gaza. “Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been cruel to disabled people, whose disabilities have been exacerbated by inadequate access to food, medicine, and support” (2025, Prism)\n\nFalling within the Cracks:  Situation of Persons with Disabilities in the occupied Palestinian territory:\n\n> “Throughout the protracted, decades-long cycle of violence and man-made humanitarian crises, people with disabilities have been at the highest risk of marginalization and exclusion” (2025, Relief Web)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nDisability Charity Sacks Employee for Palestine Protest, Citing ‘Brand Reputation’. (2025, Novara Media)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Culture, Entertainment and Media\n\n### Overview\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nNnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize. “[Her win] begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist.” (2025, the Guardian)\n\nLeatherhead disability group recreates Victorian hospital images. (2025, BBC)\n\n#### United States\n\nMattel launches its first autistic Barbie. (Jan, the Guardian)\n\n### Media\n\n#### International News\n\nDisabled-led media will shape the future of journalism. Cara Reedy says:\n\n> “There is also a growing ecosystem of Disabled-led newsrooms, Disability Debrief, New Mobility, The Sick Times and our newsroom at the Disabled Journalists Association to name a few. These small newsrooms are covering disabled people in the most organic, rigorous and thorough way. They are experimenting with accommodations and work flows to create spaces that work for everyone while operating on small budgets. Disabled people are the ultimate system hackers. Imagine what they could do with full investment.” (Dec, Reframing Disability)\n\n#### Europe\n\nGuidelines on Media Representation of Persons with Disabilities. (2025, ENIL)\n\n### Clothing and Fashion\n\n#### Croatia\n\nPeople With Disabilities Star at Inclusive Fashion Show in Croatia. (2025, BalkanInsight)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Data and Research\n\n### Overview\n\n#### Israel\n\nLife Expectancy Falls, Disabilities Surge:\n\n> “As a result of the war, a significant increase was recorded in the number of people with disabilities in Israel. In 2024, approximately 1.32 million people with various disabilities were included in the registry, representing 13.1% of the total population, compared to approximately 1.163 million in 2023, who represented 11.7% of the population. Simultaneously, a sharp increase occurred in the number of disability benefit recipients from the National Insurance Institute, including those receiving benefits due to hostile actions, which rose from 4,200 in 2023 to 29,900 in 2024.” (Jan, Israel Hayom)\n\n#### Uzbekistan\n\nThe absence of questions on disability in the census.\n(In Uzbek, Jan, Gazeta)\n\n### Research\n\n#### United States\n\nA Call Out to Disability Studies and Mad Studies Scholars:\n\n> “We become curriculum. We become words on the powerpoints, the lectures, the textbooks, but never fully acknowledged as whole human beings with fundamental needs. We’re studied, cited, discussed, and still unsupported.” (Jan, The Numbing Agenda)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Digital Accessibility and Technology\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nDesigning accessibility for real use, not dashboards:\n\n> “Treating accessibility as design work, grounded in real use and real contexts, allows teams to define success first and use metrics as supporting signals, not proxies.” (Jan)\n\nEric Bailey's predictions for the future of accessibility:\n\n> ‘There will be concerted efforts to “solve” accessibility on the performative, contractual layer. This is in opposition to doing the in-the-trenches work to actually remove barriers.’ (Jan, Mantis & Co)\n\nDigital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, an edited collection. (Jan, Law Office of Lainey Feingold)\n\nAndroid accessibility updates include dark theme’s expanded option, Gemini in TalkBack and more. (2025, Google)\n\nDigital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: Practical Framework and Toolbox. (2025, Inklusion Leben)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nScottish judge becomes first to use computer led voice tech in court after MND diagnosis. (2025, ITVx)\n\n### Social Media\n\n#### International News\n\nPublic Statement Condemning Derogatory and Dehumanising Content  Created at Targeting Persons with Albinism. (Jan, Africa Albinism Network)\n\nTikTok Adds More Accessibility Features. (2025, SocialMedia Today)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Response\n\n#### Mozambique\n\nPeople with disabilities need urgent protection amid deadly Mozambique floods. (Jan, Relief Web)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Economics and Social Protection\n\n### Financial Inclusion\n\n#### Ghana\n\nInclusive Finance in Action. “How Ghana’s Financial Sector is Learning to Serve Everyone” (2025, Inklusion leben)\n\n#### Kenya\n\nHigh Court’s affirmation of persons with disabilities’ legal capacity a welcome step forward:\n\n> “the High Court affirmed that persons with disabilities have the right to obtain the services of private banks on an equal basis with all others, without being subjected to any additional restrictions and while being provided with relevant reasonable accommodations.” (2025, ICJ)\n\n### Social Protection\n\n#### Argentina\n\nMilei's government announces the closure of the National Disability Agency: “While the Executive assures that benefits will not be cut, uncertainty reigns among the affected families”. (In Spanish, 2025, Últimas Noticias)\n\n#### Armenia\n\nArmenia's Disability Assessment Reform. “What Armenia has accomplished is not just a technical upgrade, but an institutional shift in how disability is perceived and addressed.” In particular:\n\n> “One of the most frequently cited improvements with the new system was the reduced risk of corruption. Multiple respondents, including OPDs, multilateral actors, and assessment professionals, stated that the digitalization and anonymity of the process have limited the scope for human manipulation and improved accountability. The implementation of a functionality score based on standardized criteria, rather than broad disability categories, was also seen as a major step toward objectivity and fairness”. (2025, Center for Inclusive Policy)\n\n#### Guyana\n\nOne-off grant for persons with disabilities – Pres. Ali announces. (2025, News Room Guyana)\n\n#### New Zealand\n\nWhaikaha, Whaimana: Our Voices Count: “Research by Disability Leadership Canterbury exposes the deep impact of the March 2024 disability system changes on 40,000 people and their whānau.” (Jan, Disability Leadership Canterbury)\n\n#### United States\n\nLow-Income Disabled Youth Face Significant Challenges Upon Coming of Age. Many Lose Critical Income Support From Supplemental Security Income:\n\n> “More than 4 in 10 SSI youth lose their benefits when they turn 18 because they have not demonstrated that they meet SSI’s stringent adult definition of disability, even if they continue to have health conditions that limit their daily activities.” (2025, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Education and Childhood\n\n### Overview\n\n#### Sierra Leone\n\n“I always climb the bench like a mountain”: The design failures shutting children with dwarfism out of Sierra Leone’s schools. (2025, Minority Africa)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nWhether the government likes it or not, the Special Needs debate is full of a familiar nastiness. (Jan, Maybe I'm Amazed)\n\n#### United States\n\nBorn Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade: “A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate.” (2025, New York Times)\n\n### Higher Education\n\n#### International News\n\nThis is our rhythm: academic becoming and realignment in deaf space. (2025, Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)\n\n#### Canada\n\nHow Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff: “Some administrators treat accommodations as a favour—and those requesting them as problems”. (Jan, The Walrus)\n\n#### United States\n\nThe Atlantic’s ‘Accommodation Nation’  is an Ableist Abomination. (2025, Disabled Journalists Association)\n\nMore Harvard Undergrads Are Reporting Disabilities,  Bringing Rate in Line With National Average:\n\n> “The rise — from roughly three percent in 2014 to 21 percent in 2024 — brings the share of undergraduate students receiving accommodations at Harvard in line with the national average, which has consistently hovered around 20 percent.” (2025, Harvard Crimson)\n\nNo, Colleges Do Not “Over-Accommodate”. A certain genre of articles sceptical of higher ed’s disability accommodation process fuels attacks on civil rights. (2025, IHE)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Employment, Business and Work\n\n#### International News\n\nGlobal Disability Legislation Index: a “comprehensive guide to disability legislation across 100 countries, providing employers and employees with critical legal knowledge on disability inclusion.” (Jan, Valuable 500)\n\n#### France\n\nIn France, Rehabilitation Produces a Watchmaker. “Cormac Hanley, a stroke survivor, created his 47Zero watch brand after training at the Òfil Osons l’Emploi horology program.” (2025, New York Times)\n\n#### Indonesia\n\nCelebrating inclusivity and creativity through Indonesia's batik traditions: “offers a pathway to independence and entrepreneurship for individuals with learning disabilities.” (2025, ILO)\n\n#### Serbia\n\nWhy Serbia is experiencing a decline in job opportunities for persons with disabilities. (2025, NIN)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nA better understanding of disability is key factor in improving inclusion, new BDF findings. (2025, Business Disability Forum)\n\n#### United States\n\nThe Problem With Palantir’s New Neurodivergent Fellowship:\n\n> “A ‘neurodivergent fellowship’ at a corporation like Palantir isn’t meaningful inclusion or representation so much as it’s an exercise in having an often punitively surveilled population be complicit in making platforms of weaponized surveillance, to build and be the systems and tools of their own and others’ oppression”. (2025, Mother Jones)\n\nMamdani Pledges More Inclusive Hiring for Disabled New Yorkers. (2025, AbleNews)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities\n\n#### Nigeria\n\n‘Every step a struggle:’ Nigerian woman with disabilities leads push for dignity and inclusion. (2025, UN)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## History and Memorial\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nIn memory of Graham Findlay. (Feb, Disability Wales)\n\nStigma, trust and the history of UK disability policy:\n\n> “The UK state has a history of creating and amplifying disability stigma. Politicians have regularly stoked public fears of disabled people, through talk of shirkers and scroungers. Lower-level officials have casually and harmfully judged, ignored and discriminated against disabled people.” (2025, History & Policy)\n\n#### United States\n\nLeslie Lee III, culture critic and Long COVID advocate, dies at 43. (2025, The Sick Times)\n\nMajor Victories in Advancing Disability Justice in Massachusetts. “Disabled leaders and our allies force passage of sweeping government transparency bill to confront the tragic untold history of state violence against disabled children and adults.” (2025, (Un)Hidden)\n\n'Don't mourn, organize.' How disability rights advocate Bob Kafka helped shape Austin and the nation. (2025, KUT News)\n\nCrip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies:\n\n> ‘Banner shows how institutions use documentary films, data visualization, network graphs, therapy chatbots, virtual patient training programs, and pharmaceutical advertising to pathologize certain people as “deviant” and “mentally ill.” Those people so categorized have used media technologies toward alternative visions of care. Examining insurgent media and technology efforts in the 1960s and 1970s, Banner shows how women and communities of color worked to wrest away from psychiatry its hold over representing mental distress and pathological categorization.’ (2025, MNG Bookshop)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees\n\n#### Bangladesh\n\nFrailty and disability among older adults residing in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh (Jan, Aging and Health)\n\n#### Nigeria\n\n‘Every step a struggle:’ Nigerian woman with disabilities leads push for dignity and inclusion. (2025, UN)\n\n#### Uganda\n\nDisabled Sudanese refugees in Uganda camps face aid vacuum, advocates say. (2025, Sudan Tribune)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization\n\n### Overview\n\n#### Armenia\n\nCreating caring homes for children with disabilities: “While society focuses on accessibility of public spaces, very little attention is paid to the most important space – the child’s own home”. (2025, EU Neighbours East)\n\n#### Canada\n\nExtraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking. Ethnographic research involving disabled and non/disabled siblings:\n\n> “Sibling disability worldmaking is a co-creative process in which the siblings collaborate and work together to produce livable lives and habitable worlds for them both. Once parents are no longer primary supports, siblings rely on one another, navigating their roles and relationships in a shared effort to create a new sense of stability. This can happen gradually in fluid ways over time as roles shift, or it can happen in traumatic and jolting ways during times of crisis.” (2025, Medical Anthropology Quarterly)\n\n#### New Zealand\n\nFamily carers win landmark Supreme Court case defining them as homeworkers:\n\n> “Caring for my daughter is the most important role I will ever have, but it also replaces services the Government would otherwise need to provide. This judgment makes it clear that when the Government relies on family carers to carry out this work it must also respect our rights as workers, with fair pay, proper protections, and dignity.” (2025, NZ Herald)\n\n#### United States\n\nRecent Changes to Immigration Policies Have Disastrous Impacts on Disabled People and Long-Term Care. (Jan, AAPD)\n\n### Conditions in Institutions\n\n#### New Zealand\n\n20-year-old man dies after staff miss major red flag his bowel had ruptured. “Care staff failed to recognise the severity of his condition or seek timely medical assistance”. (Jan, RNZ News)\n\n#### United States\n\nBroken Care, Broken Lives:\n\n> “State agencies and organizations charged with protecting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are repeatedly failing residents, putting them at risk of abuse, neglect, and even death.” (2025, Grace Dow Writes)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## International Cooperation\n\n#### International News\n\nDigital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: Practical Framework and Toolbox. (2025, Inklusion Leben)\n\n#### Mozambique\n\nMozambique, China maintain close cooperation in supporting persons with disabilities:\n\n> “At the event, the Chinese Embassy in Mozambique donated wheelchairs, assistive devices, daily necessities, and food supplies valued at approximately 28,000 U.S. dollars to local persons with disabilities.” (2025, Xinhua)\n\n#### Venezuela\n\nUNDP Venezuela presents its Disability Inclusion Strategy 2026–2029. (2025, UNDP)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Justice Systems and Legal Capacity\n\n#### Indonesia\n\nDisability and Due Process. Indonesia’s Updated Criminal Procedure Code Raises Questions about Access to Justice. (2025, Disability Justice Project)\n\n#### Kenya\n\nHigh Court’s affirmation of persons with disabilities’ legal capacity a welcome step forward:\n\n> “the High Court affirmed that persons with disabilities have the right to obtain the services of private banks on an equal basis with all others, without being subjected to any additional restrictions and while being provided with relevant reasonable accommodations.” (2025, ICJ)\n\n#### Mexico\n\nNew Guide  Aims to Help Realize Potential of Key Legal Capacity Reform. (2025, Human Rights Watch)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nScottish judge becomes first to use computer led voice tech in court after MND diagnosis. (2025, ITVx)\n\n#### United States\n\nI’m autistic and have a brain injury.  ICE dragged me from my car anyway. Then my nightmare really began. (Feb, Independent)\n\nThe Danger ICE Poses to the Disabled Community. (Jan, Non-Profit Quarterly)\n\nWoman dragged from car by ICE identified as U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman: \"I'm disabled trying to go to the doctor up there, that's why I didn't move\". (Jan, CBC)\n\nA Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him:\n\n> “At first, they hoped Maher could be released to provide the 24-hour specialized care for Wael that only he was trained to do. But in Wael’s last days, they were holding hope Maher could at least say goodbye to his son in person.” (Jan, CNN)\n\nAAPD Resources and News Sources  Amidst ICE Violence. (Jan, AAPD)\n\nDemocracy Denied for Disabled Americans: Guardianship and the Right To Vote:\n\n> “In many states, people under guardianship are automatically barred from voting or may lose their rights at the discretion of a judge or guardian.” (2025, CAP)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Lived Experience and Opinion\n\n#### India\n\nIn the quiet world of words: “Through creativity, resilience and determination, Aditi Sowmyanarayan is reshaping perceptions of autism and neurodiversity, proving that expression comes in many forms”. (2025, Deccan Herald)\n\n#### Trinidad and Tobago\n\nSearching for silence: Tinnitus 1 - 0 Trinidad and Tobago. (Feb, Disability Debrief)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\n‘You just feel so light!’: two wheelchair users – one 81, one 25 – on welfare cuts, housing and the joy of swimming. (2025, the Guardian)\n\n#### United States\n\nAutistic Barbie Doesn’t Represent Me. She Shouldn’t Have to. (Jan, Time)\n\nA Take on Disability Pride from LAMN Board Chair, Tye Martin:\n\n> “Disability pride is choosing to be present in a body that often demands more than it gives. It is continuing even when nothing about the moment feels empowering. Disability pride looks like waking up and seeing what the next day brings without expectations. The tide will turn and eventually the season will change again.” (2025, LAMN)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nWhat happened to the invalid carriage? Before the Motability scheme, disabled people were leased a tiny blue car. (2025, Body Babble)\n\nThe Politics of Parking “a 4-year research project which seeks to explore how disabled people's everyday ‘encounters’ with others contribute to experiences of oppression, particularly in the context of Blue Badge parking spaces.” For example:\n\n> “Two thirds (67%) of disabled people taking part in the survey had experienced hate and harassment in accessible parking spaces. People with chronic illness were particularly likely to report this type of encounter.” (2025, Vera Kubenz)\n\n#### United States\n\nHis Job Is to Make the Subway Accessible.  “Quemuel Arroyo, the New York transit system’s chief accessibility officer, has used a wheelchair for half his life. He understands how difficult it is to navigate the subway.” (2025, New York Times)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Policy and Rights\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nGlobal Disability Legislation Index: a “comprehensive guide to disability legislation across 100 countries, providing employers and employees with critical legal knowledge on disability inclusion.” (Jan, Valuable 500)\n\n#### Europe\n\nInterview with MEP Ciaran Mullooly:  “We need binding accessibility standards for all new public and private housing”. (2025, EDF)\n\n#### India\n\nIndian Constitution is ableist. We need to confront its foundational gaps:\n\n> ‘Disability remains a ground for “valid” discrimination within the Constitution, in which a person with disability can be removed from her office “for the reason of infirmity of mind and body”.’ (2025, The Indian Express)\n\n#### Malta\n\nThirty years on Malta’s disabled community faces the same obstacles. (2025, Newsbook)\n\n#### Myanmar\n\nMyanmar’s disabled population  faces diminishing rights, severe neglect under junta rule. (2025, Mizzima)\n\n#### Norway\n\nNorway Makes History. “With a clear majority, the Norwegian Parliament voted to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) into the Human Rights Act.” (2025, ENIL)\n\n#### Paraguay\n\nParaguay begins a new era in the protection of the rights of people with disabilities, with a new law on rights of persons with disabilities. (In Spanish, 2025, Ultima Hora)\n\n#### United States\n\nTexas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504 and the Right of Disabled People to Live in their Communities. (Jan, DREDF)\n\n### Assisted Dying and Euthanasia\n\n#### Australia\n\nAustralian ALS Patient Denied Disability Support, Chooses Euthanasia. (Jan, National Review)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Politics and Elections\n\n#### Honduras\n\nPeople with disabilities voting in elections. (In Spanish, 2025, Tiempo)\n\n#### South Sudan\n\nDisability groups call for inclusion in constitution-making process. (2025, Radio Tamazuj)\n\n#### Thailand\n\nConcerns raised over election accessibility for disabled voters in Thailand:\n\n> “They cite issues such as inadequate access to policy information, insufficient voting aids, and potential confusion over the proposed use of colour-coded ballot papers.” (Jan, Thaiger)\n\n#### United States\n\nDemocracy Denied for Disabled Americans: Guardianship and the Right To Vote:\n\n> “In many states, people under guardianship are automatically barred from voting or may lose their rights at the discretion of a judge or guardian.” (2025, CAP)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights\n\n#### Cuba\n\nA full life for people with disabilities. Reflection on education and, _El derecho de soñar_ , a soap-opera featuring two people with intellectual disabilities in a relationship. (In Spanish, 2025, CubaHora)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Space Exploration\n\n#### International News\n\nEngineer becomes first wheelchair user to go to space. (2025, BBC)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Sport and Paralympics\n\n#### International News\n\nUnequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities. (2025, Mongabay)\n\nFIFA’s ticketing policy  is excluding fans with disabilities from the 2026 World Cup. (2025, Football Supporters Europe)\n\n#### United States\n\nSuper Bowl has new accessibility measures for blind fans. (Feb, NPR)\n\n_Back tocontents._",
  "title": "Disability news, February 2026, by subject",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-13T19:12:29.000Z"
}