List of disability rights activists
Overview
Disability rights movement
The disability rights movement is the movement to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for people with disabilities. The specific goals and demands of the movement are: accessibility and safety in transportation, architecture, and the physical environment, equal opportunities in independent...
and/or the independent living movement
Independent living
Independent living, as seen by its advocates, is a philosophy, a way of looking at disability and society, and a worldwide movement of people with disabilities working for self-determination, self-respect and equal opportunities...
. Names on this list should be sourced and their notability should come at least partly from being disability rights activists.
- Javed AbidiJaved AbidiJaved Abidi is the director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People in India, and the founder of the Disability Rights Group....
- Director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India. - Gabriela BrimmerGabriela BrimmerGabriela "Gaby" Brimmer , a writer and activist for persons with disabilities, was born in Mexico as a daughter of Austrian Jewish immigrants. Gaby was born with cerebral palsy and since childhood learned to act in a world that has difficulty accepting diversity...
- Had cerebral palsy, life chronicled in Gaby: A True StoryGaby: A True StoryGaby: A True Story is a 1987 American-Mexican drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Martín Salinas. It chronicles the life of Gabriela Brimmer, Mexican writer and disability rights activist.- Plot :...
. - Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton - Had Spinal muscular atrophySpinal muscular atrophySpinal Muscular Atrophy is a neuromuscular disease characterized by degeneration of motor neurons, resulting in progressive muscular atrophy and weakness. The clinical spectrum of SMA ranges from early infant death to normal adult life with only mild weakness...
and was a commissioner of the Disability Rights CommissionDisability Rights CommissionThe Disability Rights Commission was established by the British Labour government in 1999. At that time, the DRC was the UK's third equality commission alongside the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission....
. - Judi ChamberlinJudi ChamberlinJudi Chamberlin was an American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement. Her political activism followed her involuntary confinement in a psychiatric facility in the 1960s...
, was an American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movementPsychiatric survivors movementThe psychiatric survivors movement is a diverse association of individuals who are either currently clients of mental health services , or who consider themselves survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who identify themselves as ex-patients of mental health services...
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