Concerns disability hate crime under-reported

Disability hate crime could still be under-reported despite an increase in the number of people coming forward, police have ...
Opinion

Disability hate crime: 'It's the worst I've experienced it'

Home Office statistics suggest disability related hate crime is falling, but Steven Lacey's lived experience paints a different picture.

Disability advocacy organization sues Ohio over release of records tied to alleged abuse

A disability advocacy organization has sued the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health, accusing the agency of withholding ...
Times Union

Disability group accuses state of blocking access to abuse records

Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...

How disability compounds violence against women

Assault and abuse are often perpetrated by the systems and caregivers meant to protect such women, making it harder for them ...
The Conversation

Deaf women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence. How perpetrators weaponise disability

Victoria University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and ...
The Conversation

The disability royal commission delivers its findings today. We must all listen to end violence, abuse and neglect

Sally Robinson receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Australian Federal and State governments. Karen R Fisher receives funding from Australian Research Council, state and ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

Assisted suicide puts people like me with a disability at risk of coercion and abuse

Assisted suicide is a dangerous public policy that threatens the most vulnerable in society, including people like myself who live with a disability. I have the rare condition fibroidodysplasia ...