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In 2022, there were some impactful, but relatively quiet developments in federal employment law. These developments affect confidentiality, non-disparagement, and arbitration...

Frenchtown is asking residents and businesses for comment on two street safety projects.

How many emotional support animals can you have? We discuss how to qualify for more than one emotional support animal in 2023

What are the rights of employees working in Malta?

Continued Abuse of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities Worries MeHUCA

Summary Complaint about a determination by the Ministry of Health that a person was ineligible for publicly funded healthcare as they did not meet the time criteria prescribed in the Health and Disability Services Direction 2011 – the Ministry

The Persons with Disability Act 715 was passed in 2006 to uphold rights such as unrestricted access to public places and buildings, free healthcare, employment, education, and transportation. Ghana signed the United Nations Convention on the Right of People with Disabilities in 2007 and ratified it in 2012. Nonetheless, persons…

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and social distancing became a life-saving necessity, one vulnerable population that had a tough time complying with that protocol were persons with visual impairment. In the absence of flexible mobility tools such as white canes that would reduce their dependence on other people to be…

About 21 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) within the Tema Metropolis have received various items from the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) to boost their businesses. The items included deep freezers, bottled and sachet water, mobile money vending stands, fufu making machine, and soft drinks, among others. Mr Yohane Armah Ashitey, Tema…

“Low level of inclusion in Nigeria incapacitates not just the excluded groups but the country itself,” states Agora Policy