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PARIS - Pascale Ribes and other campaigners for the rights of people with disabilities in France have an invite to meet the French president Wednesday. But because she uses a wheelchair, Ribes won't risk…

<!-- -->Kaylea Titford was "left to die alone," judge (Representational)London: A British couple were jailed on Wednesday for manslaughter after their disabled 16-year-old daughter died at home suffering from morbid obesity in utter…

Disabled people are being deprived of the chance to live independently because profiteering firms are cynically inflating the prices of medical aids, campaigners claim.Many crucial disability devices, such as walking aids, specialist beds…

South African wheelchair basketball player Michelle Moganedi won the Disabled Sportswoman of the Year award at the Gauteng Sports awards.…

Woman suffered a hernia during sex - and it could have left her permanently disabledThe 36-year-old suddenly developed numbness in her abdomen after sex  She was diagnosed with cauda equina syndrome which requires urgent…

The contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu app has been disabled and the contact tracing data collected through the app has been deleted, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. In a…

Twenty-three years ago, veteran BBC reporter Humphrey Hawksley wrote in The Mail on Sunday of his struggle to find support for his severely disabled three-year-old son, Christopher.Securing basic care was a 'constant battle', even though…

Love Island contestants appearing on the upcoming winter series will have to disable their social media accounts to protect them and their families, ITV has said. The broadcaster said islanders will have to make their accounts…

A disabled five-year-old girl with Strep A symptoms was left without antibiotics for 24 hours because pharmacies were 'out of stock', her mother claims.Betsy Curtis, who has Down's syndrome, was prescribed the drugs last Wednesday after…

This column is an opinion by Allie Pauld, a Montreal-based activist. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.One of the biggest misconceptions about the disabled community is that we are passive recipients of…