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Our Team

Our team is the heart and soul of GDW and includes a committed staff of global activists, academics, practitioners, and journalists from a diverse range of backgrounds. Our dedicated team works in active and coordinated ways on fact finding, field research and investigation, reporting, connecting and driving solid and concerted advocacy. 

Administration

Shaun Grech Executive Director
Jörg Weber, Deputy Director (Advocacy)
Karen Soldatic, Head of Research
Karen Soldatic, Head of Research

Neil Falzon
Neil Falzon, Human Rights Legal Advisor
Liz Ayling, Website Admin
Liz Ayling, Website Admin


Advisory Committee

Diane Kingston
Anita Ghai
Neema Namadamu

Mary Wickenden
Olivier Nyirubugara, Community Journalism Advisor
Erin Outram & Shaun Webster, Accessibility Advisors


Our Correspondents & Expert Researchers

Carolina Ferrante (Argentina, Chile)
Djenana Jalovcic (Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina & Canada)
Evan Cowo (Belize)
Evan Cowo (Belize)

Shirley Keoagile
Shirley Keoagile (Botswana)
Alexis Havyarimana
Alexis Havyarimana (Burundi)
Nsabayezu Eugene (Burundi)
Nsabayezu Eugene (Burundi)

Thy Nhip (Cambodia)
Rojanet Ty (Cambodia)
Ndi Veronica Ngum (Cameroon)

Aimee Louw
Aimee Louw (Canada)
Solangel Garcia (Colombia)
Johana Lara (Colombia)

Olmedo Zambrano (Ecuador & Latin America)
Yana Zayed (Egypt & Eastern Mediterranean)
Tigabu Gebremedhin (Ethiopia)

Ebrima Dibbasey (Gambia)
Hannah Awadzi, Senior Journalist (Ghana News Agency), Ghana
Silvia Quan (Guatemala)

Leon Walcott (Guyana)
Sunil Deepak (India)
Yustitia Arief (Indonesia)

Shaunette Grant (Jamaica)
Myroslava Tataryn (Jordan)
Helen Mudora Obande (Kenya)

Nerea Thigo (Kenya)
Nerea Thigo (Kenya)
Sandra Katz (Latin America & Caribbean)
Nkhasi Sefuthi (Lesotho)

Luc Pariot (Madagascar)
Margaret Wazakili (Malawi)
Bonface Massah (Malawi)

Oliver Scicluna
Oliver Scicluna (Malta)
Prakash Rajwagle (Nepal)
Soumana Zano (Niger)

Abid Lashari (Pakistan)
Rima Canawati (Palestine & Middle East)
Madezha Cépeda Bazán (Peru)

Paul Edward Muego (Philippines)
Barney McGlade (Philippines)
Mohamed A Farah (Somalia)

Sarah Rule (South Africa)
Kalaiventhan Rajadurai (Sri Lanka)
Qusai Al Rifai (Syria, Netherlands)

Nemes Temba (Tanzania)
Michael Miiro (Uganda)
Michael Miiro (Uganda)
Sandra Beatriz Noe Abelenda (Uruguay)

Manuel Aramayo (Venezuela)
Bruce Chooma (Zambia)
Wamundila Waliuya (Zambia)

Kudzai Shava (Zimbabwe)
Kudzai Shava (Zimbabwe)

Latest

  • UN Report on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
  • Canada’s first federal disability law- gaps and ways forward
  • Mothers of children with cerebral palsy trained to make APT Chairs
  • Ghanaian mothers of children with cerebral palsy told to ‘seek help’
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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

Newsletters

  • August 2016: Lesotho National Federation of the Disabled

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