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UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Official Side Event: Shifting the Charity Paradigm – Global Disability-Led Organizations Accelerating Humanitarian Action and Emergency Resources Directly to Local Disability Led Organizations

The Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration held a UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Official Side Event: Shifting the Charity Paradigm – Global Disability-Led Organizations Accelerating Humanitarian Action and Emergency…
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Sheryl Ellis, a white woman wearing a blazer and blouse smiles.

What’s Up WID: Accessible Workplace Accommodations Transcripts

Ashley Inkumsah:            Hello, everyone, and welcome back to What’s Up WID: The World Institute on Disability podcast, where we discuss what’s up in the disability community across the globe. I’m your host, Ashley Inkumsah. On today’s episode, Sheryl Ellis is…
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Photos of Rosie Jones, a white woman with pig-tailed hair, hooped earrings, a white t-shirt and flower-covered overalls smiles with her hands in her pockets. Aaron Rose Phillip, a Black woman with a gray t-shirt dress with a Pride rainbow heart, black and white sneakers and short black hair sits in her wheelchair. Lydia X.Z. Brown an Asian person with a purple t-shirt reading ‘Disabled & Proud” and a flannel shirt on top smiles with their hands on their hips. A Pride-themed gradient is behind them.

12 Disabled LGBTQIA+ Activists & Advocates Who You Need to Know

By Charlotte Stasio There is a great deal of intersectionality between being LGBTQIA+ and disabled, with experiences like hiding an important part of your identity for your safety, discrimination, and social isolation often shared across these identities. In addition, cultural,…
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A TSA agent escorts a passenger in a wheelchair into the checkpoint area in an airport.

Airline Accessibility for Passengers with Disabilities

By Sarah Kim People with disabilities often experience difficulties getting appropriate accessibility accommodations on airplanes and airports with wheelchairs and other assistive technologies often geting lost or damaged. As pandemic-related travel protections are being lifted coupled with the fact that…
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