DRF/DRAF Events

Upcoming Events:

1. 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68)

#CSW68 Side event – Our agenda too: Women with disabilities advocating for rights-based & inclusive systems of care & support (Tuesday 19 March 2024, 8.30-10am EDT)

For more information on the side event & registration to attend.

Past Events:

Women Deliver 2023

  1. DRF ED, Catalina Devandas, speaking at a plenary on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
  2. Inclusive Sexual and Reproductive Health: Leadership and Good Practices from the Pacific: Session co-hosted by DRF, Women Enabled International, Pacific Disability Forum
  3. Disability Solidarity Space: Co-hosted by DRF, Women Enabled International, International Disability Alliance, Disabled Women in Africa, Voice

67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67)

  1. Feminist Accessibility Protocol (March 9 at 11 am EDT)
  2. Rural Women with Disabilities Advocating for Rights in West Africa (March 14 at 9 am EDT)

15th Session to the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (June 2022)

66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), March 2022 (multiple events)

Global Disability Summit, February 2022 (multiple events)

Moving the Needle on Gender and Disability: from gender aware to gender transformative. COSP14 Side Event. June 15, 2021

Double Discrimination & Twin Pandemics: Women & Girls with Disabilities Addressing Gender-Based Violence during COVID-19 December 24, 2020 Watch the recording here.

Funders Speak: Leveraging the SDGs to Work for All at the Skoll World Forum April 3, 2020

International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Live Interview with DRF’s Founder Diana Samarasan December 3, 2019 

#WhatWENeed Side event at COSP 12 June 10, 2019

When Women Lead side event at COSP 12 June 11, 2019 

Parallel event at the 63rd CSW – Centralising Women with Disabilities in the Feminist Discourse, Funding, & Programming  March 11, 2019

Parallel event at the 63rd CSW – Access to Justice for Women with Disabilities: Towards More Just & Equitable Public Institutions March 13, 2019

Parallel event at the CSW NGO Forum March 22, 2018

Conference of State Parties to the CRPD June 2017

CSW Parallel Event:  Intersectionality of Gender, Disability and Indigenous Identity March 2017

Haiti Funders Conference 2016: Empowering Women and Girls with Disabilities

UN’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development July 2016

Conference of State Parties to the CRPD — June 2016