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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.
In 1997, disability activist Clare Evans became Leonard Cheshire's first head of Service User Support and established the Service Users Networking Association in 1998. [ 19 ] In 2010, Leonard Cheshire launched their Young Voices website and programme that supported disabled children around the world to campaign for access and their human rights.
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
How many of those are people of color?Regardless of your answers, it's probably time to diversify those feeds and follow more online creators who educate and advocate for the rights of people with ...
“Our society penalizes you for being disabled,” says writer and disability activist Imani Barbarin. “When your ability to live, find a home, food, and resources is tied directly to your ...
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; Paul Hunt (footballer) (born 1970), former Forest Green Rovers player; Paul Hunt (gymnast), American gymnastics coach
The Supreme Court took up a case that could curtail disability rights campaigner Deborah Laufer's lawsuit over hotel accessibility involving Acheson Hotels.
The Responaut was a quarterly magazine that was "by, for and about respirator-aided and other gadget-aided people". [1] It was first published in December 1963 and ran until 1989.