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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed ...

This Facilitator’s Guide on Strengthening Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Forced Displacement is designed to support UNHCR staff, partners and other stakeholders at the field level to: ...

The man was found malnourished and covered in feces, police said. Getty Images/iStock photo A man with intellectual disabilities was forced by his caretaker to live in a hut in the backyard of a ...

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A White House order calling for greater reliance on institutionalization threatens decades of precedent on disability rights, advocates are warning. The executive order issued late last month by ...

The World Health Organization estimates that around 15 per cent of the world’s population has a disability. Several million are thought to be displaced but often remain invisible within uprooted ...