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What to know about state proposals to ban abortion pills and punish women who seek to end pregnancies
By — Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Feb 11, 2025 1:32 PM EDT Lawmakers in some states where abortion is already banned are seeking to explicitly bar abortion pills or take a step that most leading anti-abortion groups oppose: punish women who seek to end their pregnancies. It’s too early in some legislative sessions to know…
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Women, girls bear brunt of cyberbullying against persons with disabilities
Social networks and online apps should be more inclusive of the needs of all people in society, the Human Rights heard, in a debate covering digital and assistive technologies. 10 March 2025 States must do more to prevent cyberbullying and overcome unequal access to assistive technology which hampers the rights of persons with disabilities –…
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Will a Texas-led legal fight over gender dysphoria threaten disabled student protections?
Kayla Jimenez March 12, 2025 Villanova University student Kaleigh Brendle has had low vision her entire young life. At her college in Pennsylvania and as a child growing up in New Jersey, she has used screen-reading technology that turns written documents or books into audio recordings and hardcover braille texts. To compensate for the longer…
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Here’s how a Pennsylvania school is setting students with autism, intellectual disabilities up for success
By Madeleine Wright Updated on: March 8, 2025 / 12:11 PM EST / CBS Philadelphia People with autism often face barriers to employment, but a private school in Middletown Township, Delaware County, is coming up with a solution. Davidson School, operated by the nonprofit Elwyn, opened a café on Feb. 3 so students can get real world…
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Wisconsin appeals court overturns ruling allowing for emailing ballots to disabled voters
By SCOTT BAUER Updated 3:49 PM CDT, March 12, 2025 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Wednesday that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election. The initial ruling by a Dane County Circuit Court judge allowing for the…
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What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities
Experts say this week’s mass layoffs could lead to less research and support for children nationwide. March 12, 2025, 6:34 PM CDT By Tyler Kingkade and Adam Edelman Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said, citing blows to the…
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DR Congo’s M23 rebels say they will no longer join peace talks in Angola
Talks, which the DRC government previously rejected, sought to resolve the conflict in the east of the country. Published On 17 Mar 2025 The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has announced that it is no longer participating in peace talks after earlier confirming it would alongside the Congolese government, which says it will still attend the…
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Israel warns more to come as airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza after two months of truce
Hundreds killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes: Palestinian authorities By James Mackenzie, Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose March 18, 2025 3:45 PM CDT Summary JERUSALEM/CAIRO, March 18 (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said, shattering nearly two months of relative calm since a ceasefire began, as Israel warned the onslaught…
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Entire families killed during Syria’s violence, UN says
By Reuters March 11, 20251:00 PM CDT GENEVA, March 11 (Reuters) – Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on Tuesday. Pressure has been growing on Syria’s Islamist-led government to investigate after reports by a war…
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