Disabled News
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A donation fund set up to help a disabled pensioner who was mugged outside his own home has drawn over £160,000 from gracious members of the public wishing to help the victim.
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Chicago -
One of the biggest ongoing advocacy efforts by anyone in the disability community is employment awareness. Activists promote the message that disabled people are just as competent, sometimes better, workers than their non disabled colleagues
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Tours -
One person was killed and five were injured in central France Wednesday after a military training jet crashed into a home for the disabled, authorities said.
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Pretoria -
South African Judge Thokozile Masipa adjourned Oscar Pistorius's sentencing hearing on Friday and scheduled the handing down of his sentence for Tuesday 21 October.
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Chicago -
There are not many residencies for artists and or writers with disabilities. Mostly residencies are for everybody, but a nonprofit organization has partnered with a university to provide unprecedented residencies.
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Berlin -
To the mournful strains of a single cello and tearful remembrances by family members, Germany on Tuesday inaugurated a national memorial to the 300,000 ill and disabled people systematically murdered by the Nazis.
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Berlin -
Germany will inaugurate the first national memorial to the estimated 300,000 ill and disabled people systematically murdered by the Nazis on Tuesday, at a ceremony with victims' relatives.
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Belleville -
A 68-year-old Belleville, Illinois resident is facing up to 70 years in prison, accused of "food tampering" after allegedly inserting sewing needles into packages of meat at the local Shop n' Save supermarket.
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Indianapolis -
The video of a disabled Chihuahua learning to walk with the help of a modified children toy is the latest feelgood video to go viral.
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Gaza -
Twenty-year-old Palestinian Sally Saqr lies in a hospital bed in Gaza's Shifa hospital with burns that have turned her cheeks an angry pink beneath her ventilation tube.
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United States President Barack Obama is moving forward with a plan that will guarantee that disabled federal workers will no longer receive less than the federal minimum wage.
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Mumbai -
The nine-year-old boy dressed in blue lay listlessly on the pavement in the scorching Mumbai summer afternoon, his ankle tethered with rope to a bus stop, unheeded by pedestrians strolling past.
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Pretoria -
Oscar Pistorius introduced Reeva Steenkamp as his fiancee just a week before he shot her, a close neighbour of the runner testified in his defence Tuesday.
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Paris -
Lower back pain causes more disability around the world than any other single condition, and accounts for a third of work-related handicaps, a specialist journal reported on Monday.Nearly a tenth -- 9.4 percent -- of the world's population has lower ba...
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Kabul -
Taking his first faltering steps since his left leg was blown off by a landmine, Sergeant Muneer Ahmad is grim proof that the Afghan army is paying a heavy price in its war against the Taliban and struggling to care for its wounded.
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Madrid -
After completing high school, 46-year-old Spaniard Ricardo Velesar struggled to hold down a job as a degenerative eye disease slowly robbed him of his sight.
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Not everyone is perfect in this world. Pro Infirmis, an organization for the disabled, did something amazing earlier this month, which astonished passersby on Zurich's popular shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse.
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Maverick, six months old, was born with a severe heart defect. He has received two surgeries, but still went into heart failure. Doctors discussed a heart transplant with parents Autumn Chenkus and Charlie Higgs. However, Maverick ended up being denied.
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Aspen -
If you watch the Sochi Winter Games, you may not see the best U.S. Paralympic skiers, or may not see them in their best shape.
Remember the government shutdown?
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Achern -
Schildi the tortoise was found recently in Germany, possibly abandoned by his owners and shy one leg. Now vets have fixed him up and have fitted a Lego wheel to help him get around.
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Philadelphia -
This month Comcast has announced three new initiatives to support their customers with disabilities. No other cable provider is making such accessibility improvements at the time of this writing.
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Toronto -
Author Jewel Kats talks about her traumatic childhood accident that left her with lifetime physical limitations, yet only added to the spirit of the children's author who now brings hope to other people’s lives affected by trauma or injuries.
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The U.K. government is supporting new plans to create additional housing to help older and disabled people to maintain their independence for longer.
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A Catalan organization is pushing to help provide disabled people with sexual relations by providing legal "disability prostitutes."
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Providence -
A vocational school in Providence has been accused of operating a sweatshop involving disabled students, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
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A disabled woman sat down for Sunday dinner only to be choked by an enraged man because she grabbed the last piece of chicken.
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Washington -
It seems hard to believe that a United Nations treaty that calls for those with disabilities to be treated equally could be something the US Senate would be against, but the unimaginable became a reality on Tuesday.
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Spokane -
A former Spokane Police Officer, accused of beating a mentally challenged man to death more than 6 years ago, has been sentenced to four years in prison.
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Kitchener -
Access 2012, a trade show presented by the Independent Living Centre of Waterloo Region opened on Friday, September 21 and continues on Saturday, September 22 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium's Kiwanis Arena.
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London -
Over 400 protesters from Disabled People Against the Cuts and U.K. Uncut protested on Friday outside Paralympic sponsor Atos' headquarters and the Department for Work and Pensions in London.
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"Miteinander Leben", the annual trade dedicated to the disabled and elderly persons has been taking place in Berlin from 8 to 10 April, 2010.
U.S. Social Security, Medicare funds could run out by 2035 wikimedia commons, R. Chamnes
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"Miteinander Leben", the annual trade dedicated to the disabled and elderly persons has been taking place in Berlin from 8 to 10 April.
Disabled sign. Creative Commons
The picture clearly indicates that it is a Senator of the Republic of Brazil’s car (SENADOR DA REPÚBLICA). DeficienteCiente.com.br
An agency devoted to "empowering the disabled". Yet for one client, it seemed like they were determined to keep him "dependent" and "in line." Ray Graham Association Website Front Page
3Arts Fellow Robert Schleifer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is working to translate Yasmina Reza’s "Art" completely into American Sign Language. Image courtesy of the artist.
Inclusion: disabled people's protest at the Brandenburg Tor in Berlin
A wheelchair in a church Corey Elsen
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"Miteinander Leben", the annual trade dedicated to the disabled and elderly persons has been taking place in Berlin from 8 to 10 April, 2010.
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