The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 made it unlawful in the United Kingdom to discriminate against disabled people in employment, the provision of goods and services, education and transport, and it introduced the concept of reasonable adjustments, requiring organizations to actively remove barriers to disabled people's participation. It received royal assent on 8 November 1995, coming into force at various later dates, following a public campaign that included demonstrations by at least 100,000 people demanding an end to state and business discrimination against disabled people. Earlier UK discrimination statutes, the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, had made no provision for disability, so the act's reasonable-adjustment concept marked a shift from passive non-discrimination toward an active duty of inclusion.
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