By Shikha Gupta & Atul Jaiswal Globally, approximately 285 million people of the world’s population live with visual impairment, out of which 39 million are blind. In India, there are around 62 million people with visual impairment, of who which 8 million are blind and 54 million with low vision. India is home to the world’s […]
Capacity building for disability organisations in Pakistan
NAWABSHAH (Pakistan): The National Disability and Development Forum (NDF) recently conducted capacity building sessions for CSOs, CBOs and DPOs in collaboration with the organization Darul Sukun and UNICEF in Nawabshah District Shaheed Benazir Abad. Training was conducted at Gymkhana District Shaheed Benazir Abad where 50 organizations participated. After the training, certificates were handed to participants by the […]
Disability inclusive education in Indonesian Islamic education institutions
WRITE INSIDE: Critical Perspectives Article by: Dina Afrianty (Australian Catholic University) & Karen Soldatic (Western Sydney University) Contrary to popular Western belief, the Indonesia Islamic education system and its schooling institutions have remained an important counter institution to processes of colonisation, while adopting elements of western education system. Emerging in the late nineteenth century in […]
Youth build support for disability rights in Pakistan
LAHORE: A group of young people continue to work to support disability rights in Pakistan. Khizran, an architecture student at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and alumna of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Pakistan (Global UGRAD-Pakistan) works with children with hearing impairments: “I always felt that a person is only disabled if the society […]
India: Reforms and disabled people
Published by The Hindu Author: Javed Abidi Date: August 4, 2016 Go to Original Source The history of codification of the rights of the disabled coincides with the era of reforms. Any assessment of the economic reforms of the past 25 years could well do with some understanding of their impact on people with disabilities in […]