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UN Report on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism

Field Pulse

Mothers of children with cerebral palsy trained to make APT Chairs

Some mothers of children with cerebral palsy at the With God Cerebral Palsy centre have undergone training in how to make Appropriate Paper … [Read More...]

  • Ghanaian mothers of children with cerebral palsy told to ‘seek help’
  • Ghana: new inclusive education centre for children with cerebral palsy
  • Ghana: stakeholders call for inclusive community based day care centres
  • Guatemala: personas con discapacidad ante oportunidad de salir de la exclusion

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Oppressive International Disability Development: Calling Out the Bully in the Room

I have written this piece following a series of concerning interactions with a large disability-focused non-governmental organization (NGO). I hope that telling this story will help disabled people, grassroots disability rights activists, and large disability organizations find more productive ways to support one another. The major issues with NGOs highlighted here include: NGOs not understanding […]

  • Disability inclusive development: bullshit bingo?
  • Ghana: ‘We lock up our child with Cerebral Palsy so we can go out and earn a living’
  • Poverty, migration and disability in India: from challenges to change
  • Ghana: I dream of the day that children with cerebral palsy can have opportunities

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Javed Abidi. Photo: Special Arrangement

India: Reforms and disabled people

  • Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian with down’s syndrome and flee
  • Summary: country by country attacks on persons with albinism
  • The Cairo Declaration: noone should be left behind
  • Israeli forces detain Gaza patient at Erez crossing

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Disability and Development

Eleanor Lisney

Election leaves UN disability committee with 17 men and just one woman

Published by Disability News Service John Pring, June 23, 2016. Go to Original Source Disabled activists are calling on the UN to take action … [Read More...]

  • Disability in the SDGs: call for celebration?

Policy Watch

Guatemala MP: “Disabled people only constitute an expense for the country”.

MP Fernando Linares Beltranena denounced by organisations of disabled people after stating that “Disabled people only constitute an expense … [Read More...]

  • UN urges Guatemala to abolish institutionalization of children with disabilities
  • Statement by UN Independent Expert on enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
  • UNCRPD Committee urges Guatemala to abolish institutionalization of all children
  • Attacks on people with albinism in Africa: European Parliament calls for end to impunity

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Humanitarian & Migration

sign saying 'this way out' in arrow pointing to the right

Canada’s dismal treatment of disabled immigrants or ‘how to build a disability-free country’

by Natalie Spagnuolo & Hadayt Nazami* On April 5th, 2016, a lively community discussion on Canada’s immigration system took place in Toronto, … [Read More...]

  • My last chance: the story of Qusai, a disabled Syrian refugee
  • Malta: high number of suicide attempts among migrants
  • Syrian refugees in Jordan blocked from accessing critical health services

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  • UN Report on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
  • Canada’s first federal disability law- gaps and ways forward
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Publication Monitor

  1. Discrimination and Violence Against Children With Albinism in Cameroon
  2. Albinism: Report on Investigative Mission on the Situation of Children with Albinism in Temporary Holding Shelters - Tanzania
  3. Research Toolkit for Disabled People’s Organisations: How to undertake and use applied research, LCI London
  4. Equal Access Monitor: Handicap International. Feb 2016
  5. Disability and Rehabilitation Services in Nagaland
  6. Disability & Rehabilitation in the North East of India: working paper

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  • August 2016: Lesotho National Federation of the Disabled

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