Hisayo Katsui, Senior Researcher, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Following the United Nations (UN) Decade of Disabled Persons between 1983-1992, the first African Decade of Persons with Disabilities started in 1999 and ended in 2009. The first…
Róisín Dermody, independent researcher and disability activist, Dublin, Ireland Abortion is a highly contentious issue when the debate focuses on a woman’s right to choose and the right to life of the unborn child. However, when the decision to abort…
Hannah Morgan, Lecturer in Disability Studies, Lancaster University, UK 1st May is celebrated throughout the Nordic countries and beyond as a day of celebration and activism linked to our shared heritage in the international labour movement. Since 2006 it has…