Daily Archives: 12/05/2012

Leveson inquiry ‘has sidelined disability’

Disabled activists who want to give evidence about newspapers that have stirred up hostility towards claimants of disability benefits appear to have been sidelined by the Leveson inquiry into press standards.
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) – including Inclusion London, the UK Disabled People’s Council and the Disability Hate Crime Network (DHCN) – told Disability News Service [...]

Sex, farmers and mobile phones mean success for seventh blogging day

Disabled bloggers have posted their views about topics as diverse as sex, special education, assistive technology and the barriers facing disabled farmers, as part of the seventh annual Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD).
The annual event, which took place on 1 May, was the idea of the anonymous disabled activist who has been blogging at Diary [...]