Face Equality Week News Today

Global non-profit Face Equality International is fighting to ensure that facial differences and other disfigurements are recognized as a disability.

Amit Ghose was born with neurofibromatosis type 1, a condition that causes tumours to grow along the nerves.

Linslade Changing Faces campaigner Katie Stanton, who has a congenital melanocytic naevus birthmark on her face, would like to see more people like her represented on TV and in ad campaigns to tackle the social stigma around appearance.

People with visible differences and disfigurements, including charity ambassador, Brenda Finn who lives in Hastings, are this week, Face Equality Week (15-19 May), sharing their images and stories. They are saying ‘This Is Me’ and refusing to be left out or hidden away by society, presenting themselves as the role models they want to see more of.

My sister and I started running online life drawing classes during lockdown. When I began to pose for the artists, I found myself liberated

Groton ― Autumn Hanscom recalled that when she met another person with Freeman-Sheldon syndrome in Boston while in her 20s, “it just sort of opened up my world.” They talked for eight hours, comparin...

A man from Nine Elms has been missing from his home for over a week.

A campaigner from is calling upon people to think twice when it comes to staring and consider the impact.

A man from Nine Elms has been missing from his home for over a week.

A campaigner from Brora is calling upon people to think twice when it comes to staring.