Without Warning
NEW RELEASE: For Deaf Nigerians caught in conflict, the difference between safety and danger can be a warning that never comes.
Filmmaker: Alexander Ogheneruemu
Alexander Ogheneruemu is a Deaf writer, special educator, and disability advocate based in Nigeria. Read more about Alexander Ogheneruemu
In Harm’s Way
NEW RELEASE: As Nigeria's growing insecurity crisis deepens, disabled people face barriers that can make reaching safety impossible.
Filmmaker: Alexander Ogheneruemu
Alexander Ogheneruemu is a Deaf writer, special educator, and disability advocate based in Nigeria. Read more about Alexander Ogheneruemu
The Road to Til
NEW RELEASE: Glacial flooding has isolated a village in Nepal’s remote Humla district. Disabled residents describe the growing risks climate change brings to their safety, livelihoods, and homes.
Filmmaker: Rajan Kathet
Rajan Kathet is a Nepal-based filmmaker working across fiction and documentary. In recent years, his films have portrayed lives shaped by climate change, migration, and social discrimination, with resilience and coexistence at their core. Read more about Rajan Kathet
Changing Land
NEW RELEASE: Once green and dependable, the land Steven Bukaya farms has been reshaped by deforestation and unpredictable rain.
Filmmaker: Isaac Oboth
Isaac Oboth is a self-taught filmmaker from Uganda. He has shot, produced, and edited over 50 hours of internationally distributed documentary content from 40 African countries. Read more about Isaac Oboth
News From the Global Frontlines of Disability Justice
Beyond the ADA
The ADA’s influence extends far beyond the United States. It helped shape a growing international approach to disability rights that eventually contributed to the development of the CRPD. But global disability movements have also expanded on ideas that U.S. law has yet to fully embrace. “I think many U.S. disability rights activists were surprised to find out how much we could learn from the international community,” says Eric Rosenthal, founder and executive director of Disability Rights International.
Forgotten People
As Nigeria’s growing insecurity crisis spreads, disabled people face barriers that can make escaping violence far more difficult. Across the country, they describe inaccessible emergency warnings, challenges reaching safety, disrupted livelihoods, and limited access to assistance during times of crisis. Their stories reveal how conflict is experienced differently when mobility, communication, and support cannot be taken for granted and how disability is too often overlooked in emergency planning and response.
The Cost of Surviving
After years of failed treatments for complex PTSD, Marian Siljeholm followed an unlikely lead into the underground world of MDMA-assisted therapy. What began as a search for healing became a journey through the science of trauma, the politics of prohibition, and the hidden global network of people risking their freedom to help others reclaim their lives. Their stories would change her own. As Marian writes, “The next morning, I woke with a thought as real as the bed: This is the first day of my life.”
‘Deaf People Are Finally Seen as Equal Citizens’
After decades of advocacy, Nepal’s Deaf community is gaining access to information in its own language. Interpreted national news broadcasts now air twice daily, and sign language interpretation has recently been introduced in parliament. Advocates say the changes mark a major step toward inclusion, recognition, and equal participation in public life for Deaf Nepalis who have long been excluded from critical information and decision-making.
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The Politics of Waiting, Wanting, and Hoping
In Malaysia, disability exclusion is rarely one dramatic denial. More often, writes Beatrice Leong, it is “a series of ordinary delays” — inaccessible schools, symbolic consultations, policies without enforcement, and a system that asks disabled people to wait patiently for dignity and belonging. Blending personal reflection with political analysis, Leong examines what happens when inclusion is promised repeatedly, but justice never fully arrives.
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A ‘Direct Threat’ to Democracy
A Deaf asylum seeker from Mongolia spent five months in U.S. immigration detention without access to a sign language interpreter, leaving him unable to communicate with officers or explain his fear of persecution. His case raises questions about whether disability rights laws are being followed inside ICE facilities, where access to communication can determine the outcome of an asylum claim. Lawyer and advocate Qudsiya Naqui says the “absolute disregard” for disability rights under the Trump administration is a “direct threat” to democracy and rule of law.