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    "Library",
    "country",
    "Accessibility and Design",
    "United States",
    "How A Coalition Of Retail Giants",
    "How a blind man made it possible",
    "The Access Coalition Releases",
    "inclusive spaces playbook",
    "Assistive Technology",
    "International News",
    "Robots can't replace guide dogs.",
    "New Zealand",
    "How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak:",
    "United Kingdom",
    "This Designer Is Turning Assistive Devices",
    "A Definitive Ranking",
    "Civil Society and Community",
    "The Weight of the House We Built.",
    "Canada",
    "The R-word was taboo as a slur",
    "Europe",
    "Renewed leadership:",
    "Italy",
    "Francesca Sbianchi,",
    "South Korea",
    "\"Punish Sloppy Investigation\"",
    "Protests expose divide over disability care.",
    "SADD Protest Halts Seoul Traffic",
    "Taiwan",
    "Official apologizes for comment on disabled people.",
    "Forbes' Accessibility List 2026:",
    "Climate Crisis and Environment",
    "India",
    "As Climate Threats Rise in Eastern India,",
    "Communication and Language",
    "Sign Languages",
    "The History of Sign Language",
    "Pakistan",
    "AI-powered sign language alerts",
    "“My Deaf Kid Connected Me With a Whole Deaf Community”:",
    "Conflict and Peace",
    "Lebanon",
    "A War of Exclusion:",
    "Culture, Entertainment and Media",
    "Accessible Lines:",
    "introduction of the project",
    "Finding my armour in threads.",
    "An Interview with Christine Sun Kim.",
    "TV and Film",
    "'Code of Silence,' 'Pulse'",
    "Media",
    "Why (and How) to Hire a Blind Producer:",
    "Clothing and Fashion",
    "“Girls, I've Made It.”",
    "Tilting the Lens and the Met",
    "The Met Gala's Inclusion of Disabled People",
    "Data and Research",
    "Disability Identification Instruments in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries:",
    "Research",
    "Advancing Disability-Inclusive Participatory Research:",
    "Digital Accessibility and Technology",
    "Accessibility fundamentals",
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "AAC, AI,",
    "Online Accessibility",
    "Netherlands",
    "6 in 10 Dutch webshops",
    "Economics and Social Protection",
    "Financial Inclusion",
    "Bangladesh",
    "Disability-Inclusive Budget 2026–27:",
    "Response to Union Budget 2026-27",
    "Social Protection",
    "Ukraine",
    "For $25,000,",
    "Pasco County woman accused",
    "Education and Childhood",
    "What Works:",
    "Australia",
    "27% of Australian students",
    "The disability-poverty loop:",
    "”My Disability was Treated Like a Big Secret”:",
    "Nigeria",
    "'I was tortured and lost my hand'",
    "Higher Education",
    "Is This Disability Justice? Hating and Wanting Hyflex.",
    "Student Perceptions on Academic Accommodations:",
    "Helping Disabled College Students of Color",
    "Employment, Business and Work",
    "840,000 deaths a year",
    "France",
    "The Direct employment rate of people with disabilities",
    "A Right to Try Work",
    "Government publishes response",
    "A hiring rule meant to help people with disabilities get federal jobs",
    "Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities",
    "Egypt",
    "In Search of Trans Identity",
    "EHRC Trans Guidance",
    "Queer and Trans Histories of Disability.",
    "Health",
    "The autism spectrum isn’t a sliding scale:",
    "What is Required to Support",
    "Haemophilia Rights:",
    "History and Memorial",
    "The sound of our cities:",
    "Brazil",
    "Luciana Novaes.",
    "Greece",
    "Ancient Greece and Disability:",
    "A Dwarf Maiden on the Athenian Acropolis:",
    "Graham Findlay obituary.",
    "Piss On Pity: The Graphic Novel.",
    "Eleven Deaf Men Got Us To The Moon.",
    "In 1978, they stopped buses",
    "The Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education:",
    "Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees",
    "Migration",
    "The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum",
    "A Pact That Excludes:",
    "Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization",
    "Caregivers with Disabilities:",
    "Conditions in Institutions",
    "Eight patients in seclusion",
    "Book review of The Silence They Wrote for Me:",
    "Trump’s Vision for the Homeless Is Already Here.",
    "Indigenous People and Minority Communities",
    "Review of Indigenous Disability Studies by John T Ward.",
    "International Cooperation",
    "Voices of strength:",
    "What we have learnt",
    "Disability Stigma Reduction:",
    "Lessons on Power and Partnership",
    "Adapting Development Programmes",
    "People with Disabilities and Transport Access:",
    "Justice Systems and Legal Capacity",
    "Implementing the Right to Decide",
    "Supreme Court Leaves Rulings",
    "Mapping Disabled Justice:",
    "Lived Experience and Opinion",
    "'I was too scared... too angry':",
    "Oral History",
    "Mental Health",
    "Latin America and the Caribbean",
    "Looking at madness from a rights perspective.",
    "Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism",
    "How young leaders",
    "‘People assume we’re grifters’:",
    "A New Yorker Rediscovers Her City,",
    "Air Travel",
    "Ranking: US Airlines",
    "Policy and Rights",
    "CRPD Pulse:",
    "Update of EU Disability Rights Strategy",
    "Papua New Guinea",
    "Disability support in PNG:",
    "Sierra Leone",
    "Positive Visibility:",
    "Assisted Dying and Euthanasia",
    "Ableism Entrenched:",
    "Harish Rana:",
    "Spain",
    "Spanish woman to die by euthanasia",
    "Politics and Elections",
    "ElectionPATHS.",
    "Hungary",
    "System change has been promised to people with disabilities",
    "Israel",
    "Naftali Bennett launches disability inclusion plan,",
    "Vietnam",
    "From beneficiaries to policymakers:",
    "Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights",
    "From Sex To Ghosting,",
    "\"It should have been my decision\":",
    "Space Exploration",
    "Sport and Paralympics",
    "A Europe-wide celebration of accessibility in football.",
    "Indonesia",
    "Indonesia targets 300 certified coaches",
    "Mexico",
    "With challenges and pending works, Electric Transport affirms:",
    "South Sudan",
    "From lockdown to Los Angeles:",
    "Ukraine Wins First UEFA Grassroots Gold",
    "Violence and Harassment",
    "Quadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion"
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  "textContent": "**Library > May 2026**\n\n_This page is organized by subject, you can also see links organized by country._\n\nThis update has 108 curated links from 31 countries and regions, organized across 40 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  * Economics and Social Protection\n  * Education and Childhood\n  * Employment, Business and Work\n  * Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities\n  * Health\n  * History and Memorial\n  * Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees\n  * Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization\n  * Indigenous People and Minority Communities\n  * International Cooperation\n  * Justice Systems and Legal Capacity\n  * Lived Experience and Opinion\n  * Mental Health\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  * Violence and Harassment\n\n\n\n## Accessibility and Design\n\n#### United States\n\nHow A Coalition Of Retail Giants  Is Rewriting Accessibility Standards. (May, Forbes)\n\nHow a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets. Profile of Matthew Shifrin, founder of Bricks for the Blind. (Apr, AP)\n\nThe Access Coalition Releases Unprecedented Suite of Inclusive Design Resources to Transform Retail Spaces, including the inclusive spaces playbook. (Feb, AAPD)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Assistive Technology\n\n#### International News\n\nRobots can't replace guide dogs. “Man’s best friend shares an ‘invisible care world’ with humans that AI can’t beat—yet.” (Apr, Popular Science)\n\n#### New Zealand\n\nHow Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak:\n\n> “Male keas typically bite one another around the neck. Bruce can’t bite; instead, he has learned to joust. He rushes his opponents and slams his lower beak into their bodies.” (Apr, New York Times)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nThis Designer Is Turning Assistive Devices  Like Compression Gloves, Ostomy Bags Into Stylish Accessories. (Apr, Teen Vogue)\n\n#### United States\n\nA Definitive Ranking of Every Wheelchair I’ve Ever Owned. (May, Steve Way's Substack)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Civil Society and Community\n\n#### International News\n\nThe Weight of the House We Built. Rethinking representation of people with disabilities and the role of OPDs:\n\n> ‘The CRPD provided a framework for realising “nothing about us without us”, but in doing so it also shifted the emphasis towards identifying representative organisations. In practice, this shift has reduced the broader political principle to the technical question of “what counts as an OPD?”’ (May, Disability Debrief)\n\n#### Canada\n\nThe R-word was taboo as a slur for people with disabilities. Now it's being normalized again. (Apr, CBC)\n\n#### Europe\n\nRenewed leadership: meet our new governing bodies. (May, EDF)\n\n#### Italy\n\nFrancesca Sbianchi, the first female President of the Italian Disability Forum. (In Italian, Apr, Superando)\n\n#### South Korea\n\n\"Punish Sloppy Investigation\" Disability Advocacy Group Holds Prostration Protest Over Late Director Kim Chang-min Case. (Apr, Seoul Economic Daily)\n\nProtests expose divide over disability care. With protests for and against provision of care in residential facilities. (Apr, The Korea Herald)\n\nSADD Protest Halts Seoul Traffic During Rush Hour, Officer Injured. (Apr, The Chosun Daily)\n\n#### Taiwan\n\nOfficial apologizes for comment on disabled people. “A senior Ministry of Health and Welfare official has apologized for implying that people with disabilities should be excluded from public hearings to prevent them from slowing down the process, groups said yesterday.” (Apr, Taipei Times)\n\n#### United States\n\nForbes' Accessibility List 2026:  “highlights the biggest innovators and impact-makers in accessibility, from juggernauts like Microsoft to VC-seeking startups”. (May, Forbes)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Climate Crisis and Environment\n\n#### India\n\nAs Climate Threats Rise in Eastern India, Evacuations Still Fail Disabled People. (Apr, The Global Disability News Network)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Communication and Language\n\n### Sign Languages\n\n#### Europe\n\nThe History of Sign Language at the Eurovision Song Contest. (May, A11y News)\n\n#### Pakistan\n\nAI-powered sign language alerts launched for deaf community. (Apr, The News)\n\n#### United States\n\n“My Deaf Kid Connected Me With a Whole Deaf Community”: A conversation with Will Fertman, author of The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual. (Apr, Switchbacks)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Conflict and Peace\n\n#### Lebanon\n\nA War of Exclusion: Lebanon’s Displacement Crisis Hits People with Disabilities. (May, Humanity & Inclusion)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Culture, Entertainment and Media\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nAccessible Lines: Accessible illustrations in the voices of the illustrators. (Accessible Lines) See also an introduction of the project by Hatiye Garip, on Illustration Research.\n\n#### Pakistan\n\nFinding my armour in threads. Fashion and identity as a wheelchair user in Pakistan:\n\n> “My disability made my body a unique canvas for fashion and styling. Through clothes I found new forms of inclusion and participation. And with a unique form of self-expression, I found my identity.” (May, Disability Debrief)\n\n#### United States\n\nAn Interview with Christine Sun Kim. “I realized that if I wanted to become an artist, I had to learn how to be with hearing people—like, really with them, not just next to them.” (Mar, Believer)\n\n### TV and Film\n\n#### International News\n\n'Code of Silence,' 'Pulse'  and More Honored by Ruderman Family Foundation for Portrayals of Characters With Disabilities. (Apr, Variety)\n\n### Media\n\n#### United States\n\nWhy (and How) to Hire a Blind Producer:\n\n> “There are inherent skillsets that a visually impaired person has that can make them a better radio journalist,” [Jason Strother told me] “When I’ve been out in the field covering a demonstration, for example, I can’t see what’s written on the signs, so I’ll ask a protester, ‘Hey, what’s written on your banner?’” It sounds better to have his sources read it than for Jason to repeat it back. “They don’t realize I’ve deputized them as my in-field guide,” (Apr, Transom)\n\n### Clothing and Fashion\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nThis Designer Is Turning Assistive Devices  Like Compression Gloves, Ostomy Bags Into Stylish Accessories. (Apr, Teen Vogue)\n\n#### United States\n\n“Girls, I've Made It.” Aariana Rose Philip On Attending The 2026 Met Gala. (May, British Vogue)\n\nTilting the Lens and the Met  – a story of accessibility and representation in ‘Costume Art’. (May, Tilting the Lens)\n\nThe Met Gala's Inclusion of Disabled People Proves Fashion Can't Exist Without Body Diversity. (May, Teen Vogue)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Data and Research\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nDisability Identification Instruments in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review of Prevalence, Populations, and Characteristics. (Apr, Disabilities)\n\n### Research\n\n#### International News\n\nAdvancing Disability-Inclusive Participatory Research:  Lessons, Challenges, and Future Directions: “Parents were motivated seeing me, a disabled person, interviewing them.” (IDS Bulletin)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Digital Accessibility and Technology\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nAccessibility fundamentals an introduction to accessibility. (Apr, Inklusivo)\n\n### Artificial Intelligence\n\n#### International News\n\nAAC, AI, and authenticity: “Should we be measuring authorship or agency?” (Apr, Beth Moulam)\n\nRobots can't replace guide dogs. “Man’s best friend shares an ‘invisible care world’ with humans that AI can’t beat—yet.” (Apr, Popular Science)\n\n### Online Accessibility\n\n#### Netherlands\n\n6 in 10 Dutch webshops inaccessible to users with disabilities: “In 61 percent of cases, ordering was entirely impossible, with assistive tools failing to function.” (Mar, NL Times)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Economics and Social Protection\n\n### Financial Inclusion\n\n#### Bangladesh\n\nDisability-Inclusive Budget 2026–27: \n\n> “Bangladesh currently runs 95 social security programmes, with only seven focused on persons with disabilities, and just two provide direct individual benefits. Although 35.31 lakh people receive support, including 1 lakh students, the overall allocation remains limited, only 0.52% of the national budget. The monthly allowances remain at Tk 900, significantly lower than the support in the neighbouring countries.” (May, The Daily Star)\n\n#### India\n\nResponse to Union Budget 2026-27 Commitments Vs Expectation & Promises. (Mar, CIP)\n\n### Social Protection\n\n#### Ukraine\n\nFor $25,000,  she promised to issue a disability certificate, which would serve men of conscription age grounds for declaring them unfit for military service. (Apr, Prosecutor's Office)\n\n#### United States\n\nPasco County woman accused  of hiding son’s disappearance to use his disability benefits: DOJ. (Apr, News Channel 8)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Education and Childhood\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nWhat Works: Learning from Inclusive Education Projects Across Five Countries. (IDS Bulletin)\n\n#### Australia\n\n27% of Australian students  now have an adjustment for disability at school:\n\n> “There is no incentive for schools to meet children’s needs through accessible quality universal teaching – in fact, there’s a perverse incentive not to.” (May, the Conversation)\n\n#### Bangladesh\n\nThe disability-poverty loop: school exclusion traps disabled workers:\n\n> ‘In Dhaka’s elite English-medium schools, disabled children access resource rooms, therapists and trained teachers. These schools charge 20,000-50,000 taka monthly, ten times what most families earn. For the poor, “inclusion” exists only in United Nations documents.’ (Apr, Development Policy Centre)\n\n#### Canada\n\n”My Disability was Treated Like a Big Secret”: Disabled Perspectives on Anti-Ableist Discussion in Elementary and Secondary Classrooms in the United States. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n#### Nigeria\n\n'I was tortured and lost my hand' - one student's struggle to get an education in Nigeria. (Apr, BBC)\n\n### Higher Education\n\n#### International News\n\nIs This Disability Justice? Hating and Wanting Hyflex. Discussion of hybrid events in academic settings. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n#### Canada\n\nStudent Perceptions on Academic Accommodations: Needs and Barriers for Support. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n#### United States\n\nHelping Disabled College Students of Color Prepare for Life After Graduation. (Apr, Center for American Progress)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Employment, Business and Work\n\n#### International News\n\n840,000 deaths a year  linked to psychosocial risks at work, “such as long working hours, job insecurity, and workplace harassment”. (Apr, ILO)\n\n#### France\n\nThe Direct employment rate of people with disabilities in the civil service will exceed 6% by 2025. (Apr, fiphfp)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nA Right to Try Work Must Come with the Support to Succeed:\n\n> “For many Disabled people, the greatest barrier to work is not the benefits system itself but whether the right support will be in place to make work possible and sustainable.” (Apr, Disability Rights UK)\n\nGovernment publishes response and “confirmed that it will proceed with mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for large employers”. (Apr, Lexology)\n\n#### United States\n\nA hiring rule meant to help people with disabilities get federal jobs  instead left them more vulnerable to DOGE mass firings. (Apr, Government Executive)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities\n\n#### Egypt\n\nIn Search of Trans Identity  and Community in Cairo:\n\n> “I firmly believe in the _becoming_ ; that through being perceived as disabled, we become just that. And I have witnessed, before my very eyes, the resilience wrought within us by virtue of being excluded … by being abnormally alone. By being different.” (Apr, Disability Culture Lab)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nEHRC Trans Guidance Disabled People and Adapted Toilets: “The new guidance on single sex toilets and trans people targets the trans community - and disabled people are becoming collateral damage in this cultural warfare.” (May, Jamie Hale)\n\n#### United States\n\nQueer and Trans Histories of Disability. (Apr, A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Health\n\n#### International News\n\nThe autism spectrum isn’t a sliding scale: 39 traits show the complexity. (Mar)\n\nWhat is Required to Support the Implementation of Inclusive Health in Mainstream Programmes? (IDS Bulletin)\n\n#### Europe\n\nHaemophilia Rights:  The Half a Million Euro Question:\n\n> “A person with haemophilia whose treatment is switched without meaningful consent, whose clinician is constrained by tender outcomes, who has no say in decisions that directly affect their quality of life, is not living independently. They are subject to institutional discretion in exactly the way Independent Living principles exist to challenge. Haemophilia belongs on the disability spectrum not because of what it does to the body but because of what institutions do to the person living with it.” (Apr, ENIL)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## History and Memorial\n\n#### Australia\n\nThe sound of our cities: why the Australian pedestrian button belongs in our archives. (Apr, The Conversation)\n\n#### Brazil\n\nLuciana Novaes. “Quadriplegic after being shot at a university, she served three terms as a city councilor and was active in defending people with disabilities and victims of violence.” (In Portuguese, Apr, Globo)\n\n#### Greece\n\nAncient Greece and Disability: A zine showing how: “disabled people were present across all levels of society, from soldiers, labourers, poets, seers, and even kings.” (Apr, DisabilityARK)\n\nA Dwarf Maiden on the Athenian Acropolis: Disability and Dedication in the Archaic Polis. (Feb, The Art Bulletin)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nGraham Findlay obituary. ‘The idea of inclusive design was one of Graham’s main preoccupations, and he was a champion of disabled people becoming the “architects of their own lives”.’ (May, the Guardian)\n\nPiss On Pity: The Graphic Novel. “That gives a condensed history of the disability rights movement, from its original theory to its victory with the enshrinement of the Disability Discrimination Act” (Apr, NDMAC)\n\n#### United States\n\nEleven Deaf Men Got Us To The Moon. That Talent Pool Is Still Untapped. (Apr, Forbes)\n\nIn 1978, they stopped buses — and helped launch a disability rights movement. Civil disobedience in Denver. (Mar, NPR)\n\nThe Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education:\n\n> “This Article concludes that the recognition of the disability history of a prominent civil rights case like _Brown_ adds important nuance to the story of desegregation.” (Feb, Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees\n\n### Migration\n\n#### Europe\n\nThe EU Pact on Migration and Asylum Doesn’t Protect People with Disabilities:\n\n> “Among the gaps they identify are patterns of discrimination faced by persons with disabilities in detention and return procedures; inaccessibility and/or discrimination faced by many with disabilities to reception and screening procedures, and exclusion from social protection and risks of institutionalisation.” (Mar, HRRC)\n\nA Pact That Excludes:  Closing the Protection Gap for Migrants and Asylum Seekers with Disabilities in the EU:\n\n> “From inaccessible reception systems and discriminatory migration requirements to exclusion from national social welfare schemes, discrimination within the migration and asylum frameworks continues to undermine the rights of migrants and asylum seekers with disabilities and restricts their full participation in society.” (Feb, EDF)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization\n\n### Overview\n\n#### United States\n\nCaregivers with Disabilities: “An estimated 36% of adult family caregivers in the U.S. are disabled themselves:”\n\n> “Caregivers with disabilities face the highest levels of housing insecurity, food insecurity, and transportation barriers. They are least likely to receive social and emotional support and report the highest levels of social isolation and loneliness. They experience high levels of multiple chronic conditions and report the greatest levels of stress, difficulty sleeping, poor mental health, and unmet healthcare needs.” (Apr, The Heller School)\n\n### Conditions in Institutions\n\n#### New Zealand\n\nEight patients in seclusion for more than 45,000 hours combined in one year:\n\n> “Five of the patients, who were in intellectual disability services, spent on average the equivalent of 283 days of the year in seclusion.” (Apr, RNZ News)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nBook review of The Silence They Wrote for Me: A Black Disabled Woman’s Fight Against Institutional Erasure. (Mar, National Survivor User Network)\n\n#### United States\n\nTrump’s Vision for the Homeless Is Already Here. “Forcing the most vulnerable among us into institutions only perpetuates their trauma. I know, because I’ve lived it.” (Apr, Progressive.org)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Indigenous People and Minority Communities\n\n#### International News\n\nReview of Indigenous Disability Studies by John T Ward. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## International Cooperation\n\n#### International News\n\nVoices of strength: international civil servants share personal reflections on disability inclusion and their work. (April, newSpecial)\n\nWhat we have learnt  about disability inclusive programming: Lessons from Inclusive Futures. (Mar, Inclusive Futures)\n\nDisability Stigma Reduction: Learnings From Disability-Inclusive Programming:\n\n> “The lack of a shared conceptualisation of stigma contributed to many Inclusive Futures projects not having stigma reduction as an explicit outcome and not being intentional in how they were going to reduce stigma through their interventions.” (IDS Bulletin)\n\nLessons on Power and Partnership in Disability-Inclusive Safeguarding. (IDS Bulletin)\n\nAdapting Development Programmes or People with Disabilities with High Support Needs. (IDS Bulletin)\n\nPeople with Disabilities and Transport Access: Evidence from PENDA and Inclusive Futures:\n\n> “However, even within holistic, multi-level interventions that aim to both support individuals and address structural barriers to inclusion (e.g. inaccessible workplaces, negative attitudes), access to transport is often treated as peripheral or left unaddressed entirely.” (IDS Bulletin)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Justice Systems and Legal Capacity\n\n#### International News\n\nImplementing the Right to Decide  under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A book on Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities by Janos Fiala-Butora. (2025, Bloomsbury)\n\n#### United States\n\nSupreme Court Leaves Rulings on Executing the Intellectually Disabled in Place. “Alabama won’t be allowed to kill someone because of a single passing IQ test.” (May, Mother Jones)\n\nMapping Disabled Justice: Empirical Research Towards a People-Centered Approach. (Global Perspectives on People-Centered Justice)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Lived Experience and Opinion\n\n#### New Zealand\n\n'I was too scared... too angry': Journalist Sally Wenley revisits the school bus crash that changed her life about 40 years ago. (Apr, RNZ)\n\n#### United States\n\nOral History An excerpt from the new memoir _Mother Tongue_ , on deafness, parenting, and enduring communities. (Apr, Bomb)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Mental Health\n\n#### Latin America and the Caribbean\n\nLooking at madness from a rights perspective. (In Spanish, Apr, ElChasque)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism\n\n### Overview\n\n#### India\n\nHow young leaders are advocating for more inclusive and accessible urban mobility in Indian cities:\n\n> “Last year, 40 Mobility Champions conducted 88 accessibility audits, surveyed 370 individuals, organised 8 empathy-building workshops with people with disabilities and mixed groups, reached 1,300 individuals through workshops and audits, and reached 1.6 lakh cumulative online impressions and interactions.” (Apr, Social Story)\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\n‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges. (Apr, the Guardian)\n\n#### United States\n\nA New Yorker Rediscovers Her City, in a Wheelchair. (Apr, NYT)\n\n### Air Travel\n\n#### United States\n\nRanking: US Airlines  Most Likely to Damage Wheelchairs. Delta airlines the best performer at 0.43% and JetBlue Airways last place at 1.44% in rate of mishandled wheelchairs and scooters per 100 enplaned. (Apr, Wheelchair Travel)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Policy and Rights\n\n### Overview\n\n#### International News\n\nCRPD Pulse: outcomes, highlights and new elements in recommendations from the 34th session of the CRPD Committee. (Apr, IDA)\n\n#### Europe\n\nUpdate of EU Disability Rights Strategy lacks ambition to advance our rights:\n\n> “The Strategy focuses more on studies, preparatory work, and already foreseen actions than on adopting new legislative and funding initiatives.” (May, EDF)\n\n#### Papua New Guinea\n\nDisability support in PNG: bridging policy and reality. (Apr, The National)\n\n#### Sierra Leone\n\nPositive Visibility:  Demystifying Albinism in Sierra Leone: “Nobody can side-line you if you start by accepting and appreciating your state of being”. (Apr, International Journal of Disability and Social Justice)\n\n### Assisted Dying and Euthanasia\n\n#### Canada\n\nAbleism Entrenched: Inside the Pedagogical Politics of Canada’s MAiD Curriculum. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n#### India\n\nHarish Rana:  First Indian to be allowed 'passive euthanasia' dies. (Mar, BBC)\n\n#### Spain\n\nSpanish woman to die by euthanasia  after long legal battle with father. (Mar, BBC News)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Politics and Elections\n\n#### International News\n\nElectionPATHS. A platform with “transparent data about the accessibility features of election technology on the marketplace today.” (IFES)\n\n#### Hungary\n\nSystem change has been promised to people with disabilities for 28 years, it's time for it to actually happen. (In Hungarian, Apr, Mérce)\n\n#### Israel\n\nNaftali Bennett launches disability inclusion plan, pledges accessibility reforms if elected. (Apr, The Jerusalem Post)\n\n#### Vietnam\n\nFrom beneficiaries to policymakers: Persons with disabilities seek a voice in Việt Nam’s legislature. (Mar, Viet Nam News)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\nFrom Sex To Ghosting,  These Are The Realities Of Dating With A Disability. (2025, Elle)\n\n#### United States\n\n\"It should have been my decision\": A mixed methods investigation of contraceptive coercion among U.S. patients with and without disabilities. (Apr, Social Science & Medicine)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Space Exploration\n\n#### United States\n\nEleven Deaf Men Got Us To The Moon. That Talent Pool Is Still Untapped. (Apr, Forbes)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Sport and Paralympics\n\n#### Europe\n\nA Europe-wide celebration of accessibility in football. (Apr, UEFA)\n\n#### Indonesia\n\nIndonesia targets 300 certified coaches for disability sports. (Apr, ANTARA News)\n\n#### Mexico\n\nWith challenges and pending works, Electric Transport affirms: Light Rail will be 100% accessible for the World Cup. (In Spanish, Apr, Yo También)\n\n#### South Sudan\n\nFrom lockdown to Los Angeles: the rise and rise of South Sudan’s blind footballers. (Apr, The Telegraph)\n\n#### Ukraine\n\nUkraine Wins First UEFA Grassroots Gold for War-Born Disability Initiative. (Apr, UNITED24 Media)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n## Violence and Harassment\n\n#### United States\n\nQuadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion “facing a murder charge after he allegedly shot a man in his car during an argument.” (Mar, BBC)\n\n_Back tocontents._",
  "title": "Disability news, May 2026, by subject",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-27T12:49:29.913Z"
}