World view round up - July

Leading US rights campaigner dies

The lawyer, author and passionate disability rights campaigner Harriet McBryde Johnson has died at her home in the US.

Johnson, who was profiled in last month’s Disability Now and was famed for publicly taking on the bio-ethicist Peter Singer, died last month at her home in Charleston, South Carolina.

In her interview, she told us: “I’m not much of a future planner. I do what I do and see what happens. I will probably die with my boots on, as they say. I like my work and I need to work to pay for my life.”