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Disabled campaigner tells UN of discrimination faced by autistic females

By John Pring on 6th October 2016 Category: Human Rights

Disabled campaigner tells UN of discrimination faced by autistic females
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A British autistic woman has told the United Nations (UN) of the “clinical misogyny” and “misjudgements” that have led to autism being viewed as something that only affects white males, and of the violence and abuse experienced by autistic people. Carly […]

Disabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics

By John Pring on 28th April 2016 Category: Politics

Disabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics
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Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled people over the last 15 years, according to three of the country’s leading academics working in the disability rights field. In […]

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