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Justice Demands We Live a Different Set of Values
While the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other Black Americans have made police brutality and the systemic racis...
2020 Round 2 Letter of Interest for Haiti and Uganda
Download the Press Release (Word): English French Haitian Creole Disability Rights Fund Opens Letter of Interest (LoI) Process for Haiti and...
COVID-19: Malawi Union of the Blind
Through press releases and public service announcements that have aired on more than 60 radio stations across the country, the MUB Executive...
COVID-19: Indonesian Mental Health Association (IMHA)
In Jakarta alone, Damayanti knows of some 2500 persons with psychosocial disabilities locked inside public and private facilities. She has n...
COVID-19: National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal (NIDWAN Nepal)
Soaps, sanitizer, all these things were required and people did not even know what sanitizer means, what social distancing means, what does ...
COVID-19: Albinism Umbrella (AU) and Organization for the Integration and Promotion of People with Albinism (OIPPA)
“People have a fear, of course, because today in Rwanda people are in lockdown,” adds Nicodeme Hakizimana, Executive Director of OIPPA. ...
COVID-19: Nuanua O Le Alofa (NOLA)
The National Advocacy Organization for Persons with Disabilities in Samoa “I can gladly say that we are leading the way in terms of inclus...
Persons with DeafBlindness: The Left Behinds in the COVID-19 Era
On March 12th, members of the Massachusetts DeafBlind community were set to gather in a spirit of community and advocacy at the Massachusett...
Ten Years Later: Haiti Earthquake, The Unkept Promises
My story Ten years later, I remember those 35 seconds as if they had unfolded yesterday. When I talk about the earthquake, I have to pay my ...