Beijing is now host to the more than 4000 athletes who are taking part in this year's Paralympic Games. But these games are now a 'must' for Olympic host cities, so are Chinese attitudes to disability really changing?

A festival aimed at promoting disabled artists in Cambodia has just ended in the nation's capital, Phnom Penh. Despite having one of the world's highest rates of disabled people, social, political and economic discrimination against the disabled is widespread in Cambodia. Organizers say that the aim of the festival was to try to help change popular perceptions of disability in Cambodia by promoting disabled people's abilities rather than their disabilities. Rory Byrne reports for VOA from Phnom Penh.

Diverse local authority policies and practices throughout the UK are making big differences to the uptake and operation of ‘direct payments’ – a system for supporting people who are receiving community care by enabling them to ‘purchase’ their own care.

Some 80 countries have signed a United Nations treaty aimed at protecting the rights of the world's 650 million disabled people.