Disability
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‘I focus on the person, not the disability’: the photographer on a mission to make India inclusive
After spending four years meeting people all over the country, Vicky Roy’s new book, Everyone is Good at Somet…
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We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part one
From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave indi…
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Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive
Goze – women who earned a living as musicians despite sight impairments – are all but forgotten in Japan but R…
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Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection
And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabili…
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Power of touch: how blind women are helping detect breast cancer in India
A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and exam…
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Veteran who lost both legs in Afghanistan plans Everest summit bid
Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha, hopes to be first ever double above-the-knee amputee to scale mountainA for…
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Left out of society: Vanuatu’s deaf community push for national sign language
With no official sign language, the deaf community are unable to communicate widely and are more vulnerable du…
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‘Without a wheelchair my life would be useless’: the woman changing the lives of disabled Pakistanis
Zahida Qureshi, who became disabled after contracting polio, was forced to crawl around her school as a child.…
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Tanzila Khan: disability rights campaigner tells young women ‘the world is yours’
Winner of the inaugural Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment award says she saw mainstream culture did not represe…
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‘It’s good to be alive’: groundbreaking New Zealand artist brings light and joy to city streets
Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Well…
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Singapore: indefinite stay of execution for man with learning disabilities after he gets Covid
Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, who has an IQ of 69, has been on death row since 2010Coronavirus – latest updatesS…
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Disabled Afghans in special jeopardy, warns exiled campaigner
After her flight from the Taliban, blind activist Benafsha Yaqoobi says fellow vulnerable compatriots are in d…
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Hungary’s LGBT protests and Juneteenth Day: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms from China to Colombia Continue reading..…
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‘Disability is possibility’: a mission to bust myths in India – photo essay
The photographer Vicky Roy has been travelling around the country documenting people with disabilities. The pr…
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Normalising special needs: the Kabul school offering hope
Fatima Khalil school has given some children the first taste of education – and love – in their livesLaughter …