Editing Disability (section)

==== Rights movement ====
{{main|Disability rights movement}}

The disability rights movement aims to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for disabled people. The specific goals and demands of the movement are [[accessibility]] and [[safety]] in transportation, architecture, and the physical environment; equal opportunities in [[independent living]], employment, education, and housing; and freedom from abuse, neglect, and violations of [[patients' rights]].<ref name="disabilityrightswi.org">{{cite web |title=Disability Rights Wisconsin |url=http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/priority-issues/abuse-neglect-and-patient-rights |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319215011/http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/priority-issues/abuse-neglect-and-patient-rights |archive-date=March 19, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |publisher=Disabilityrightswi.org}}</ref> Effective civil rights legislation is sought to secure these opportunities and rights.<ref name="disabilityrightswi.org" /><ref name="Law">{{cite book |last=Bagenstos |first=Samuel |url=https://archive.org/details/lawcontradiction0000bage |title=Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-300-12449-1 |location=New Haven |jstor=j.ctt1npkj3 |oclc=262432366}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Löve |first1=Laufey |last2=Traustadóttir |first2=Rannveig |last3=Rice |first3=James |date=March 26, 2018 |title=Achieving disability equality: Empowering disabled people to take the lead |journal=Social Inclusion |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.17645/si.v6i1.1180 |doi-access=free|hdl=20.500.11815/760 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

The early disability rights movement was dominated by the medical model of disability, where emphasis was placed on curing or treating disabled people so that they would adhere to the social norm, but starting in the 1960s, rights groups began shifting to the social model of disability, where disability is interpreted as an issue of discrimination, thereby paving the way for rights groups to achieve equality through legal means.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kemple |first1=Miriam |last2=Ahmad |first2=Fatima |last3=Girijashanker |first3=Suraj |date=2011 |title=Shaping Disability Rights through Shaping the Disability Movement |journal=Journal of Human Rights Practice |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=355–63 |doi=10.1093/jhuman/hur019}}</ref>

Advocacy for disability issues and accessibility in the republics of the former Soviet Union has become more organized and influential in policymaking.<ref name="kzdisab">{{cite news |last=Satubaldina |first=Assel |date=November 27, 2020 |title=We Seek to Promote a Human Rights Based Approach to Disability |newspaper=The Astana Times |location=Kazakhstan |url=https://astanatimes.com/2020/11/we-seek-to-promote-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-disability-says-shyrak-association-leader-lyazzat-kaltayeva/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202115456/https://astanatimes.com/2020/11/we-seek-to-promote-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-disability-says-shyrak-association-leader-lyazzat-kaltayeva/ |archive-date=December 2, 2020}}</ref>