(Lima) – Peru should remove significant barriers preventing people with disabilities from exercising their right to vote and other civil rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The ...

Any of us could incur a disability due to an accident, illness or ageing and yet we often fail to understand the needs of this group - which can be many and varied. A person’s needs could consist of ...

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* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Peru's decision to restore voting rights to thousands of people with disabilities is an important ...

Carol and Dale Huffman have a special bicycle with a wheelchair attached to the front for their daughter Becky, who has cerebral palsy. The family is preparing for a trip to Lima, Peru, to help at a ...

GENEVA (29 March 2023) - The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) today issued its findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia, after reviewing the six ...

Representatives of five countries exchanged experiences on supporting people with disabilities. They shared several examples of how to enable disabled individuals to live a full, dignified life.

"Life-changing" - that's how Samantha Souter has described her experience volunteering in an orphanage in South America. The Learning Disability Nursing student from De Montfort University Leicester ...