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Paul Hunt [1] (1937 – 1979) was an early disability rights activist and leader of disabled people's campaigns in the UK against residential institutions and for independent living. He was born on 9 March 1937 in Angmering , Sussex, with an impairment and he died aged 42 years in London, on 12 July 1979.
The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS) was an early disability rights organisation in the United Kingdom. It established the principles that led to the development of the social model of disability, wherein a sharp distinction is made between impairment and disability. From the organisation's policy statement: "What we ...
In 2018, a database of disability statistics called the Disability Data Portal was launched for people with disabilities to use to monitor and demand changes within their country of residence. [ 36 ] As part of a call for new trustees in late 2022, Leonard Cheshire announced plans for a significant scaling back and a review of the make-up and ...
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Paul Hunt may refer to: Paul Hunt (academic) , British professor and Chief Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission Paul Hunt (activist) (1937–1979), British disability rights activist
Per the ADA, employers with 15 or more employees must engage in an interactive process to determine if an employee’s condition qualifies as a disability before taking adverse action.
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257. In the past decade, Arizona’s heroin deaths rose by more than 90 percent. New York City had 420 heroin overdose deaths in 2013 — the most in a decade.