Home Office statistics suggest disability related hate crime is falling, but Steven Lacey's lived experience paints a different picture.

Assault and abuse are often perpetrated by the systems and caregivers meant to protect such women, making it harder for them ...

Victoria University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — A New York man was convicted on felony sex charges against an individual with a mental disability. Carl Barton, 58, was convicted of criminal sex act in the second degree and ...

A disability advocacy organization has sued the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health, accusing the agency of withholding ...

Warning: This story contains details which may be distressing to some readers. South Australians living with a disability have reportedly had their hands shackled with rope, their wheelchair tyres ...

After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses ...

Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new lawsuit pinpoints accusations of violence and abuse of Tennessee children in the custody of the Department of Children's Services. Disability Rights Tennessee filed the ...