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Filipina duo take spotlight at Princess of the Universe beauty contest
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Sony to launch groundbreaking Access Controller for disabled gamers
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Hyperrealistic prosthetics start-up hopes to improve amputees’ lives
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European Commission unveils plans for EU-wide disability card
The rights of people with disabilities may be recognised across the whole continent in a few years' time.
France: 11 dead after fire in disabled holiday care home
France's Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne visited the scene of the holiday home for people with disabilities in eastern France where 11 people died after a fire broke out early Wednesday.
United Airlines becomes first US airline to feature braille in-cabin
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Extreme weather in Spain is affecting its citizens with disabilities disproportionately, leaving many to fend for themselves without support.
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Europe's hidden shame: Forced sterilisation of women with disabilities
Forced sterilisation of women with disabilities is still happening in Europe. The European Parliament is currently debating a binding legislation that would make this pratice illegal.
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Here’s what the EU’s new rail rules mean for passengers facing delays
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Why did Sweden sterilise up to 30,000 people against their will?
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976. “They wanted to get rid of a certain type of people: The weaker ones”.