NOW and Disability Rights

• Together We Will Achieve Disability Rights

Latest News

• Victory! Congress Approves Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (09/08)
• NOW Lobbies House on Hate Crimes Legislation (11/07)

Archive

• NOW Celebrates ADA Anniversary; Members Call for Dialogue on Disability Rights (7/05)
• Conference Resolution: Women with Disabilities Activist Strategy Caucus (7/05)

• Disability Victory Hinged on 5-4 Supreme Court Balance (5/04)

• Forum Inspires Women's Rights and Disability Rights Supporters to Work Together (10/03)
• Event: Women with Disabilities and Allies Forum (10/03)
• Women with Disabilities and Allies Will Link Arms at October Forum (8/03)
• NOW Foundation and AAPD to Co-Sponsor Women with Disabilities & Allies Forum (4/03)

• Women Entering, Winning in Sports for Disabled (3/02)

• Feminists Denounce Attack on People with Disabilities and Erosion of Civil Right Laws (2/01)

• Supreme Court Restricts Civil Rights Remedies; Disability Definition Restricted; State Duty to Integrate Disabled (Fall 1999)
• Addition of Sex, Disability to Hate Crimes Bill Is Under Attack (10/99)
• Activists Call for Disability Rights (Summer 1999)
• New Brochures Cover Disability Issues and Expand NOW's Outreach to Spanish Speaking Community (Spring 1999)

• Guidelines Ensure Accessibility for All (11/96)
• Disability and Feminism (1/96)

• NOW Activists Are Winners (1/95)

National NOW Conference Resolutions

• Women and Disability Allies Forum (2001)
• Envisioning Disability Rights (1997)
• Parental Rights of the Disabled (1996)
• Disability Rights Education (1995)