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My last chance: the story of Qusai, a disabled Syrian refugee

9th July 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Qusai recovering in bed. Photo credit: Darrin Zammit Lupi/JRS Europe)

Published by JRS Europe Author: Danielle Vella Go to Original Source Refugees who face a terrifying journey to seek life over death deserve praise for their courage. This came to me powerfully in recent weeks when I met so many travelling the Balkan route to find asylum in Europe. And especially when I listened to […]

Filed Under: Disability and Migration, Middle East Tagged With: Migration, Refugees, Syria

Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian with down’s syndrome and flee

8th July 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Arif Jaradat.Tomer Appelbaum (reproduction)

Online paper Haretz claims that Arif Jaradat, 23, a man with down’s syndrome was recently shot by Israeli troops. Jaradat, a man described as one ‘loved by all the children in his village’ died of his injuries last week. GDW has no means of confirming the story. Below is the original story. Go to Original […]

Filed Under: Middle East, News Tagged With: Downs Syndrome, Israeli Forces, Palestine

The Cairo Declaration: noone should be left behind

2nd April 2016 by Global Disability Watch

We, people with disabilities and disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) representing 57 countries from around the world, have participated in the international conference titled United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – “No one left behind” organized by the Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities (AOPD) in partnership with Disabled People’s International (DPI) to host it’s 9th World […]

Filed Under: Middle East, News Tagged With: Cairo Declaration, DPI

Israeli forces detain Gaza patient at Erez crossing

30th March 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Published by Ma’an News Agency Go to Original Source GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Tuesday detained a Palestinian man at the Erez crossing as he was attempting to leave the blockaded Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in the occupied West Bank, his family said. Relatives of Muhammad Kamel Rajab Abu Odeh, 34, said […]

Filed Under: Middle East, News Tagged With: Gaza, Palestine

Attack on Palestinian rehabilitation center by occupation forces

25th March 2016 by Global Disability Watch

soldier walking in occupied territory

Attacks on disabled people in occupied Palestine continue, this time on a rehabilitation facility in the town of Husan near Bethlehem, south of the West Bank. On March 21, heavily armed Israeli military forces stormed into the Husan Vocational Center for Children with Disabilities, destroying property and causing substantial damage to the facility. Neighbours commented that the […]

Filed Under: Middle East, Reports Tagged With: Israeli occupation, Palestine, Rehabilitation

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