Disability Rights
The Open Society Foundations tackle deeply entrenched discriminatory laws, practices, and attitudes that hinder full equality and inclusion of persons with disabilities in their communities.
Accessibility for All
Q&A: An Inclusive Revolution

In Guatemala, women with disabilities, face exclusion, stigmatization, and worse. Thankfully, one collective, Mujeres Con Capacidad de Soñar a Colores, is responding through research, organizing, and art.
A More Open Future
Q&A: In Kyrgyzstan, a Small Investment Can Make a Big Difference

Using accessible and innovative approaches such as music, dancing, street theater, and more, rights advocates in Kyrgyzstan are doing the grassroots-level work that is essential for a healthy civil society.
Event Recap
A Watershed for the Rights of People with Disabilities
In much of the world today, people with disabilities are confronted with a legal system that denies their basic rights to autonomy, dignity, and inclusion. Two successful reform efforts in Peru and Colombia, however, show that there's a better way.
Inclusion
Q&A: Kazakhstan’s Theater for All

Literal Action, a groundbreaking inclusive theater project in Kazakhstan, is trying to redefine how both audiences and performers understand theater—and unlock its radically inclusive potential.
Event recap
People with Disabilities, Public Policy, and the “Right to Fail”
A new documentary from PBS Frontline and ProPublica poses a challenging question: How can policymakers ensure a “right to fail” when it comes to providing care to people transitioning out of group homes?
Voices
How Effective Are U.S. Testing Practices on Children with Intellectual Disabilities?
A new documentary follows three pioneering young adults with intellectual disabilities as they make their way through the educational system and the workforce.
Voices
How Civil Society Can Best Support Inclusive Education

Throughout Central Asia and Eastern Europe, parents of children with disabilities are struggling against bureaucracy, ignorance, and neglect. To fix this, civil society must build more spaces for advocacy and collaboration.
Voices
Q&A: How Parents in Tajikistan Are Organizing for Their Children’s Rights

Slowly but surely, a coalition of groups dedicated to the rights of children with disabilities is changing the way Tajikistan’s political and social worlds think about disability—and how to support parents as well as kids.