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WEST CHESTER - Thanks to the work of Senator Carolyn Comitta, Chester County's disability rights activist Jessica Keogh, and many other organizations and lawyers around the world, a major law was recently…

Living with a disability should not mean living in poverty. Unfortunately, this is the reality for too many people with disabilities in Canada. I should know I've lived with severe mental illness for several decades, and while…

Juli is Disability Pride Month. If you didn't know, that's one reason it needs to be celebrated. While millions of people live with disabilities and anyone can be disabled at any time, all too often all attention takes the form of pity.…

I have entered many restaurants through the kitchen door over the years.Many facilities had front door steps or other barriers that did not provide easy access when accompanying a friend using a wheelchair…

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As COVID-19 vaccines become increasingly available, employers may consider requiring that employees be…

May 12, 2021 - 3:06 p.m. PanARMENIAN.Net - Human Rights Watch identified "important advances" made for people with disabilities in Armenia after the country's parliament passed the Disability Rights Act. The long awaited reform will…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the Maine State's P-EBT (Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer) plan. The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) has partnered with the Maine Department of…

A senior getting vaccinated at the Tamil Nadu government's multi-super specialty hospital, Omandurar. Image: Bhavani PrabhakarAIADMK, DMK and MNM release candidate listConstituencyAIADMKMNMDMKAvadiK pandiarajanUdaya KumarSM…

Supreme Court: Conflating the rights of PwDs with the notion of benchmark disabilities does a dis-serviceIn the case Vikash Kumar vs. Union Public Service Commission & Ors, the Supreme court held that conflating the rights and…

Whilst the focus for many employers during 2020 has undoubtedly been on Covid and little else, the courts and tribunals have continued to operate and produce some important decisions which employers should know about. There is also some…