Disability

Please see below selected recent disability-related developments.

See also: Halcyon Disability Headlines

July 2018

• Asos has been praised for selling clothes designed with people who have disabilities in mind. The online retailer has released a tie-dye waterproof jumpsuit for festival season, which has been adapted to be wheelchair friendly.

May 2018

• In its Modern Workplace: Disability special report, the Financial Times looked at the struggles many disabled people face in finding employment, as well as the schemes and technology to help them become and remain economically active,

At TEDxBrussels 2011, the idea of building "paraorchestras", which would showcase the talents of disabled musicians worldwide, met with great enthusiasm.

A global foundation helps people who are significantly impaired by a physical limitation in their daily lives, and helps improve their integration into the wider society and economy.

With 80% of people with disabilities

...won by a particular nation being an accurate proxy of the way it looks after its disabled. Or is it merely that investment is concentrated in high-profile events like the Paralympics to the detriment of day-to-day care? Or, less cynically, is it just that a particular crop of athletes all happen to come good at the same time?

• Disability - 20 countries have ratified a first international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.