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Harleen Kaur
Medical Paternalistic View of Disability Afflicts University of Disability Studies Bill
03 Jan 2021
The bill seems to view disability as a problem of dysfunctional or diseased bodies requiring services, and ignore the reality of discrimination as a source of the social, cultural and economic…
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NPRD Criticises Draft NEP for Being ‘Profoundly Regressive’
04 Jul 2019
The organisation heavily censured the Modi government for its “lackadaisical approach to matters concerning the disabled” and goes on to expose the vanity of the “Accessible India” campaign.
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Delhi High Court Issues Notices to Railways, Social Justice Ministry
14 Mar 2019
The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled has demanded that the requirement of a separate card for the disabled to avail concessions be scrapped.
Zubair Sofi
Their Journey of Friendship Began in Hospital, Faces Pierced by Pellets
09 Jan 2019
The three teenage Kashmiri girls, who are disabled now, were hit with pellets on October 31, 2016 – the 115th day of curfew in Kashmir after the killing of Hizbul Mujahedeen’s commander Burhan Wani.
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Highly Reputed Autism Researcher Hans Asperger Implicated in Nazi Programs that Killed Disabled Children
23 Apr 2018
New findings show that Asperger referred many children to a Viennese clinic where they were either experimented upon by doctors, or killed.
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Modi Government and (In)accessible India
06 Mar 2018
Representatives of various organisations, activists and individuals working with the disabled community in the country gathered today at Delhi's Parliament Street to raise their voices about issues…
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How Disabled Friendly Are We As a Nation?
03 Dec 2017
December 3 is the International Day For People With Disability. What is the ground reality in India in terms of infrastructure and perception? Three active persons with disability paint the real…