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Leading actors and writers have called on the film-making industry to move far more quickly to improve access and opportunities for disabled talent. Among those calling for change was disabled BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne, who said the pace of change within […]
A disabled comedian has described how she was reduced to tears after being publicly “shamed” by a train guard who forced her to move her mobility scooter to make way for a mother with a baby buggy. Tanyalee Davis was on […]
A court’s rejection of the latest bid to legalise assisted suicide shows that a group of disabled activists, and the medical profession, are now leading the opposition to a change in the law, according to a disabled peer. Noel Conway, who […]
Sculptures of figures falling down, fat activism, and a dance performance dedicated to the disabled victims of the Nazi euthanasia programme will all feature in DaDaFest’s 13th festival of disability and Deaf arts, which begins next month. DaDaFest said the Liverpool-based […]
Appalled activists protested outside a London premiere last night after describing the film as a “disability snuff movie” that suggests disabled people are better off dead. The protest outside the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London’s West End was coordinated by the […]
Friends and fellow activists have paid tribute to the anti-euthanasia and disability rights campaigner Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick, whose life and death “epitomised the true meaning of dignity”. Fitzpatrick – who died on 15 January, leaving a wife, Fabienne, and three adopted […]
By Raya Al Jadir Organisers of the UK’s annual disability history month hope this year’s event will pressure the government into living up to its responsibility to promote the positive portrayal of disabled people in the media. UK Disability History Month […]
MPs have been warned by a prominent activist that legalising assisted suicide would mean that some disabled people would die as a result of “exploitation and abuse”. The user-led organisation Not Dead Yet UK held a lobby of MPs this week […]
A leading disabled artist and activist is hoping that securing funding to develop a musical about assisted suicide from a prestigious disability arts programme might help “tip the balance” in the continuing campaign to oppose legalisation. Liz Carr is one of […]
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of “deadly discrimination”, after they failed to pledge that their new target of “zero suicides in the NHS” would also apply to terminally-ill people. Disabled activists campaigning against the legalisation of assisted suicide were initially […]