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"Official apologizes for comment on disabled people.",
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"From beneficiaries to policymakers:",
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"Renewed leadership:",
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"A Pact That Excludes:",
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"Graham Findlay obituary.",
"Piss On Pity: The Graphic Novel.",
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"Why (and How) to Hire a Blind Producer:",
"“Girls, I've Made It.”",
"Tilting the Lens and the Met",
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"textContent": "**Library > May 2026**\n\n_This page is organized by country, you can also see links organized by subject._\n\nThis update has 108 curated links from 31 countries and regions, organized across 40 subjects.\n\n## Contents\n\n * Global\n\n * International News\n\n * Latin America and the Caribbean\n\n * Africa\n\n * Egypt\n\n * Nigeria\n\n * Sierra Leone\n\n * South Sudan\n\n * Asia\n\n * Bangladesh\n\n * India\n\n * Indonesia\n\n * Israel\n\n * Lebanon\n\n * Pakistan\n\n * South Korea\n\n * Taiwan\n\n * Vietnam\n\n * Europe\n\n * Europe\n\n * France\n\n * Greece\n\n * Hungary\n\n * Italy\n\n * Netherlands\n\n * Spain\n\n * Ukraine\n\n * United Kingdom\n\n * North America\n\n * Canada\n\n * Mexico\n\n * United States\n\n * Oceania\n\n * Australia\n\n * New Zealand\n\n * Papua New Guinea\n\n * South America\n\n * Brazil\n\n\n\n## Resources\n\n### Global\n\n#### International News\n\n**In Assistive Technology** :\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**In Civil Society and Community** :\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**In Culture, Entertainment and Media** :\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'Code of Silence,' 'Pulse' and More Honored by Ruderman Family Foundation for Portrayals of Characters With Disabilities. (Apr, Variety)\n\n**In Data and Research** :\n\nDisability Identification Instruments in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review of Prevalence, Populations, and Characteristics. (Apr, Disabilities)\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**In Digital Accessibility and Technology** :\n\nAccessibility fundamentals an introduction to accessibility. (Apr, Inklusivo)\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**In Education and Childhood** :\n\nWhat Works: Learning from Inclusive Education Projects Across Five Countries. (IDS Bulletin)\n\nIs This Disability Justice? Hating and Wanting Hyflex. Discussion of hybrid events in academic settings. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n**In Employment, Business and Work** :\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**In Health** :\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**In Indigenous People and Minority Communities** :\n\nReview of Indigenous Disability Studies by John T Ward. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n**In International Cooperation** :\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**In Justice Systems and Legal Capacity** :\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**In Policy and Rights** :\n\nCRPD Pulse: outcomes, highlights and new elements in recommendations from the 34th session of the CRPD Committee. (Apr, IDA)\n\n**In Politics and Elections** :\n\nElectionPATHS. A platform with “transparent data about the accessibility features of election technology on the marketplace today.” (IFES)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Latin America and the Caribbean\n\n**In Mental Health** :\n\nLooking at madness from a rights perspective. (In Spanish, Apr, ElChasque)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n### Africa\n\n#### Egypt\n\n**In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Nigeria\n\n**In Education and Childhood** :\n\n'I was tortured and lost my hand' - one student's struggle to get an education in Nigeria. (Apr, BBC)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Sierra Leone\n\n**In Policy and Rights** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### South Sudan\n\n**In Sport and Paralympics** :\n\nFrom lockdown to Los Angeles: the rise and rise of South Sudan’s blind footballers. (Apr, The Telegraph)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n### Asia\n\n#### Bangladesh\n\n**In Economics and Social Protection** :\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**In Education and Childhood** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### India\n\n**In Climate Crisis and Environment** :\n\nAs Climate Threats Rise in Eastern India, Evacuations Still Fail Disabled People. (Apr, The Global Disability News Network)\n\n**In Economics and Social Protection** :\n\nResponse to Union Budget 2026-27 Commitments Vs Expectation & Promises. (Mar, CIP)\n\n**In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism** :\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**In Policy and Rights** :\n\nHarish Rana: First Indian to be allowed 'passive euthanasia' dies. (Mar, BBC)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Indonesia\n\n**In Sport and Paralympics** :\n\nIndonesia targets 300 certified coaches for disability sports. (Apr, ANTARA News)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Israel\n\n**In Politics and Elections** :\n\nNaftali Bennett launches disability inclusion plan, pledges accessibility reforms if elected. (Apr, The Jerusalem Post)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Lebanon\n\n**In Conflict and Peace** :\n\nA War of Exclusion: Lebanon’s Displacement Crisis Hits People with Disabilities. (May, Humanity & Inclusion)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Pakistan\n\n**In Communication and Language** :\n\nAI-powered sign language alerts launched for deaf community. (Apr, The News)\n\n**In Culture, Entertainment and Media** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### South Korea\n\n**In Civil Society and Community** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Taiwan\n\n**In Civil Society and Community** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Vietnam\n\n**In Politics and Elections** :\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### Europe\n\n#### Europe\n\n**In Civil Society and Community** :\n\nRenewed leadership: meet our new governing bodies. (May, EDF)\n\n**In Communication and Language** :\n\nThe History of Sign Language at the Eurovision Song Contest. (May, A11y News)\n\n**In Health** :\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**In Humanitarian, Migrants and Refugees** :\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**In Policy and Rights** :\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**In Sport and Paralympics** :\n\nA Europe-wide celebration of accessibility in football. (Apr, UEFA)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### France\n\n**In Employment, Business and Work** :\n\nThe Direct employment rate of people with disabilities in the civil service will exceed 6% by 2025. (Apr, fiphfp)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Greece\n\n**In History and Memorial** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Hungary\n\n**In Politics and Elections** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Italy\n\n**In Civil Society and Community** :\n\nFrancesca Sbianchi, the first female President of the Italian Disability Forum. (In Italian, Apr, Superando)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Netherlands\n\n**In Digital Accessibility and Technology** :\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#### Spain\n\n**In Policy and Rights** :\n\nSpanish woman to die by euthanasia after long legal battle with father. (Mar, BBC News)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Ukraine\n\n**In Economics and Social Protection** :\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**In Sport and Paralympics** :\n\nUkraine Wins First UEFA Grassroots Gold for War-Born Disability Initiative. (Apr, UNITED24 Media)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### United Kingdom\n\n**In Assistive Technology** :\n\nThis Designer Is Turning Assistive Devices Like Compression Gloves, Ostomy Bags Into Stylish Accessories. (Apr, Teen Vogue)\n\n**In Culture, Entertainment and Media** :\n\nThis Designer Is Turning Assistive Devices Like Compression Gloves, Ostomy Bags Into Stylish Accessories. (Apr, Teen Vogue)\n\n**In Employment, Business and Work** :\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**In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities** :\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**In History and Memorial** :\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**In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization** :\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**In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism** :\n\n‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges. (Apr, the Guardian)\n\n**In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights** :\n\nFrom Sex To Ghosting, These Are The Realities Of Dating With A Disability. (2025, Elle)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n### North America\n\n#### Canada\n\n**In Civil Society and Community** :\n\nThe R-word was taboo as a slur for people with disabilities. Now it's being normalized again. (Apr, CBC)\n\n**In Education and Childhood** :\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\nStudent Perceptions on Academic Accommodations: Needs and Barriers for Support. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n**In Policy and Rights** :\n\nAbleism Entrenched: Inside the Pedagogical Politics of Canada’s MAiD Curriculum. (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Mexico\n\n**In Sport and Paralympics** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### United States\n\n**In Accessibility and Design** :\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**In Assistive Technology** :\n\nA Definitive Ranking of Every Wheelchair I’ve Ever Owned. (May, Steve Way's Substack)\n\n**In Civil Society and Community** :\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**In Communication and Language** :\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**In Culture, Entertainment and Media** :\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\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“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**In Economics and Social Protection** :\n\nPasco County woman accused of hiding son’s disappearance to use his disability benefits: DOJ. (Apr, News Channel 8)\n\n**In Education and Childhood** :\n\nHelping Disabled College Students of Color Prepare for Life After Graduation. (Apr, Center for American Progress)\n\n**In Employment, Business and Work** :\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**In Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities** :\n\nQueer and Trans Histories of Disability. (Apr, A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)\n\n**In History and Memorial** :\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**In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization** :\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\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**In Justice Systems and Legal Capacity** :\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**In Lived Experience and Opinion** :\n\nOral History An excerpt from the new memoir _Mother Tongue_ , on deafness, parenting, and enduring communities. (Apr, Bomb)\n\n**In Mobility, Travel, Transport and Tourism** :\n\nA New Yorker Rediscovers Her City, in a Wheelchair. (Apr, NYT)\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**In Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights** :\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**In Space Exploration** :\n\nEleven Deaf Men Got Us To The Moon. That Talent Pool Is Still Untapped. (Apr, Forbes)\n\n**In Violence and Harassment** :\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._\n\n### Oceania\n\n#### Australia\n\n**In Education and Childhood** :\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**In History and Memorial** :\n\nThe sound of our cities: why the Australian pedestrian button belongs in our archives. (Apr, The Conversation)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n#### New Zealand\n\n**In Assistive Technology** :\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**In Independent Living and Deinstitutionalization** :\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**In Lived Experience and Opinion** :\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_Back tocontents._\n\n#### Papua New Guinea\n\n**In Policy and Rights** :\n\nDisability support in PNG: bridging policy and reality. (Apr, The National)\n\n_Back tocontents._\n\n### South America\n\n#### Brazil\n\n**In History and Memorial** :\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_Back tocontents._",
"title": "Disability news, May 2026, by country",
"updatedAt": "2026-05-27T12:49:47.051Z"
}