Down’s Syndrome: When discrimination takes the biscuit… bake cookies
A group of entrepreneurial Egyptian women with Down’s Syndrome have proven that the only handicap they suffer is a financial one as they seek to expand their successful baking business.
Read MorePost-ISIS Mosul, pt 1: The final death of a city?
Its building turned to dust, its citizens traumatised and impoverished, Mosul may have been ‘liberated’ from ISIS but it has become a graveyard. Can this razed and devastated city ever be free again?
Read MoreThe ‘Brexit’ handicap
Leaving the EU could be catastrophic for disabled Britons, yet little attention has been given to their needs or their voices.
Read MoreSocialising with the disabled: A guide for the perplexed
Out of awkardness, the able-bodied find it hard to deal with the disabled. The golden rule is to treat the handicapped like the normal people they are.
Read MoreRamadan with a handicap
As a disabled person, there is no shame in admitting that you can’t fast. I will not lie or hide it to satisfy people’s prejudices
Read MoreThe occupational handicaps of being Palestinian
Living with disability is always a challenge but if you’re a Palestinian living under Israeli occupation you are doubly handicapped.
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