Natural and manmade disasters tend to have a disproportionate impact on people with disabilities. This issue is recognized and addressed by Article 11...

2013. "Disability, natural disasters and emergency situations". Division for Inclusive Social Development. United Nations Department of Economic and Social...

and respond to the needs and rights of persons with disabilities. Assistive technology Climate change and cities Disability and disasters Disability rights...

disablism (British English), anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination and social prejudice against physically or mentally disabled...

associated with developmental delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic physical features. The parents of the affected individual...

(England, Scotland, Wales) and Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Northern Ireland) provides for people with disabilities to have the same right to services...

Health Services in Disasters Guidelines on Management of Chemical(Terrorism) Disasters Guidelines on Management of Landslides and Snow Avalanches Guidelines...

to reduce the disaster risks. Nature alone is blamed for disasters even when disasters result from failures in development. Disasters also result from...

with disabilities, for example at entrances to raised bus stops in Curitiba, Brazil. A wheelchair lift is specifically designed to carry the user and the...

(hyperglycemia) or low (hypoglycemia) levels of blood sugar in humans with diabetes and alert their owners to dangerous changes in blood glucose levels. This allows...

Individuals with disabilities are more susceptible to contracting COVID-19 and have higher mortality rates compared to those without disabilities. This is particularly...

Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society...

powered lifting mechanism that pushes the entire chair up from its base and so assists the user to a standing position. In the United States, lift chairs...

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA (42 U.S.C. § 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar...

like road traffic crashes, violence and disasters contribute to the growing numbers in certain contexts. Disability disproportionately affects vulnerable...

within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actually focus on the...

education, women's development, disability and disaster relief assistance. TCI Developers Ltd is the real estate arm of TCI Group, and was created to look into...

justice must include disability justice, guided by the principle of “nothing about us without us.” The term was coined by disabled and neurodivergent environmental...

with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties...

differentiation between cascading effects and Cascading disasters have been defined as: Cascading disasters are extreme events, in which cascading effects...

the Chernobyl disaster – Continuing list of books about the Chernobyl meltdown List of industrial disasters Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents...

holiday during Australia's 2019–20 bushfire season and for his government's response to the disaster. Morrison also faced criticism for his response to...

(30 March 2020); Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (15 April 2021); and (together) Home Affairs and Treasury (6 May 2021). All were by an instrument...

The Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety is a department in the Queensland Government which is responsible for providing...

triggered by an event causing the death, dismemberment, or permanent disability of at least five players from a team's active, injured, or suspended roster...

take care of individuals with disabilities during natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Cuk said "In both wealthy and poor countries, we are getting...

variety of benefit and assistance programs for veterans, seniors, students, teachers, children, people with disabilities, dependents, disaster victims, farmers...

clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old...

"Calculating the Cost of Weather and Climate Disasters / Seven things to know about NCEI's U.S. billion-dollar disasters data". ncei.noaa.gov. October 6...

disability (physical and/or mental), discrimination, disease, driving under the influence, dysfunctional families, dystopian societies, disasters, existential...