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@Oliver Schick
Disability is a subject I care about very much, both concerning the discrimination that disabled people often encounter and also in trying to improve understanding, especially of learning disabilities, to enable disabled people to participate fully in society. I was reminded that I'd been meaning to start a thread on it for some time by this lovely article:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/03/katie-priced-disabled-child-disability
Discrimination is often based on the 'medical' model of disability, which is contrasted with the 'social' model of disability:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/accessability/staff/accessabilitytutors/information-for-accessability-tutors/the-social-and-medical-model-of-disability
(NB the spelling of the link is deliberate--AccessAbility.)
The UK has excellent disability legislation, based on the social model, and while it has been reasonably effective in bringing about certain kinds of change (such as better accessibility of buildings), there is still a long way to go in others. The law alone will never be enough, however.
Concerning cycling, in London we have the excellent Pedal Power:
http://www.pedalpowercc.org/
Anyway, it's a topic which is always in the news in one way or another.