'Facing the Falls' Film Focuses on Disability Rights, Challenges | Arts & Entertainment

'Facing the Falls' Film Focuses on Disability Rights, Challenges | Arts & Entertainment

UCSB Arts & Lectures will screen the film “Facing the Falls,” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 at UCSB Campbell Hall. Executive produced by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, “Facing the Falls” chronicles international disability rights advocate and entrepreneur Cara Yar Khan’s quest to live an extraordinary life and shatter stigma against people living with disabilities. Deep in the throes of an aggressive muscle-wasting disease and no longer able…

EU failing to uphold UN convention on disability rights, says NGO

From voting to forced treatment, the EU does not meet the UN's standards of disability rights, said the NGO.

UCOP hosts ‘year-in-review’ on disability rights in higher education

The University of California Office of the President, or UCOP, Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services, or ECAS, hosted a year-in-review webinar regarding disability rights and accommodations in higher education March 5.

EU not complying with treaty on disability due to lack of political leadership

Our report, released today, shows that the EU is not sufficiently meeting its international commitment to advance the rights of persons with disabilities. The report was submitted to a group of UN experts who are slated to review the European Union’s approach to fulfilling the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The review will take place on 11-12 March at the United Nations in Geneva. The European Union has ratified the Co…