Educating for Disability and Climate Change
Educators have the power and responsibility to change practices now so that students benefit from climate change and disability awareness education.
Disability
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Read more: Disability Participation and Empowerment in the Context of Climate Action: A Human Rights Obligation Disability Participation and Empowerment in the Context of Climate Action: A Human Rights Obligation
International human rights law offers a framework for coordinated climate action where all members of society have a role to play.
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Read more: A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers
The law surrounding reasonable modifications in health care is well-settled, but practical realities pose challenges to securing accommodations.
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Read more: Climate Resilience Planning: A Life-Saving Entry Point for Incorporating Disability Voices into Policy Climate Resilience Planning: A Life-Saving Entry Point for Incorporating Disability Voices into Policy
Incorporating disability issues into general resilience planning is not only a life-saving necessity, but also an opportunity for broader inclusion.
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Read more: Examining the Climate Change-Migration Nexus from a Disability Lens Examining the Climate Change-Migration Nexus from a Disability Lens
Growing interest in migration as a form of climate adaptation risks exacerbating existing inequalities and generating new ones for disabled people.
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Read more: Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action
This piece highlights the failure to recognize the knowledges of disabled people as a form of epistemic injustice.
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Read more: Learning from the ‘COVID War’ Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
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Read more: On Experiencing IBD as a Woman On Experiencing IBD as a Woman
The onus should not be on patients, many of whom are less privileged than me, to convince health care providers to take their pain seriously.
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Read more: 4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand 4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand
By declaring the pandemic over by fiat, the government is giving up the fight when they should be redoubling their efforts.
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Read more: Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID
The need for public health laws and policies that align with and reinforce civil rights protections is greater than ever.
