Editing Disability rights movement (section)

{{Short description|Social movement seeking equal rights for disabled people}}
{{Distinguish|Disability studies}}
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{{Rights}}

The '''disability rights movement''' is a global<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Groce |first1=Nora Ellen |title=Global disability: an emerging issue |journal=The Lancet Global Health |date=July 1, 2018 |volume=6 |issue=7 |pages=e724–e725 |doi=10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30265-1 |pmid=29903370|s2cid=49208126 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=International Disability Rights|url=https://dredf.org/legal-advocacy/international-disability-rights/|website=Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund|date=27 December 2012 | location =  Berkeley CA, & Washington DC |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Bell|first1=Beverly|title=The Global Disability Rights Movement: Winning Power, Participation, and Access|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/the-global-disability-rig_b_5651235.html|access-date=18 October 2017|work=Huffington Post|date=5 August 2014}}</ref> [[new social movements|social movement]] that seeks to secure [[equal opportunity|equal opportunities]] and [[equality before the law|equal rights]] for all [[disabled]] people.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scotch |first1=Richard |last2=Sutton |first2=Kara |title=The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability |date=2023 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |isbn=9780190093167 |chapter=The Disability Rights Movement |pages=790–806 |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/37079/chapter-abstract/323168551 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190093167.013.44}}</ref>

It is made up of organizations of '''disability activists''', also known as '''disability advocates''', around the world working together with similar goals and demands, such as: [[accessibility]] and [[safety]] in architecture, transportation, and the physical environment; [[equal opportunity|equal opportunities]] in independent living, [[employment equity]], [[right to education|education]], and [[right to housing|housing]]; and freedom from discrimination, [[disability abuse|abuse]], [[neglect]], and from other rights violations.<ref name="disabilityrightswi.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/priority-issues/abuse-neglect-and-patient-rights|title=Abuse, Neglect and Patient Rights by the Disability Rights Wisconsin website|author=Karan, Joan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118042703/http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/resources/abuse-neglect/|archive-date=18 November 2018   |work=Disability Rights Wisconsin|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref> Disability activists are working to break institutional, physical, and societal barriers that prevent people with disabilities from living their lives like other citizens.<ref name="disabilityrightswi.org" /><ref name="Law">{{cite book | last = Bagenstos | first = Samuel | title = Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement | url = https://archive.org/details/lawcontradiction0000bage | publisher = Yale University Press | location = New Haven | year = 2009 |jstor = j.ctt1npkj3 | doi = 10.12987/yale/9780300124491.001.0001 | oclc = 871782238  |  isbn = 978-0-300-12449-1 | s2cid = 151301307 }}</ref>

Disability rights is complex because there are multiple ways in which a person with a disability can have their rights violated in different socio-political, cultural, and legal contexts. For example, a common barrier that individuals with disabilities face deals with employment. Specifically, employers are often unwilling or unable to provide the necessary accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to effectively carry out their job functions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Long|first=Alex|date=2014|title=Reasonable Accommodation as Professional Responsibility, Reasonable Accommodation as Professionalism |url=https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/47/5/Articles/47-5_Long.pdf|journal=University of California, Davis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023030258/https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/47/5/Articles/47-5_Long.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2014  |quote=47 U.C.D. L. Rev. 1753 (2013-2014) |pages=3–10}}</ref>