Empowering the Voices of Women and Girls with Disabilities Towards a Just Society
At the 63rdCommission on the Status of Women held March 2019 in New York City, women with disabilities joined their fellow women activists t...
Inclusion 101 – A Guide for the Well-Meaning, Well-Doing, and the Well, Clueless
Social change cannot happen without inclusion and inclusion cannot happen without social change. This dynamic is the hallmark of the global ...
Making Development Processes Inclusive: Experiences from Rwanda and Malawi
The 2030 Agenda for Development provides a useful basis to address traditional development problems by applying human rights principles. The...
Indigenous Concept of Vanua: Empowering Indigenous Persons with Disabilities
This story has been cross-posted with International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP). “Vanua is a traditional, indigenous concept e...
DRF/DRAF - Celebrating 10 Years
William Rowland, DRF/DRAF Board Co-Chair, shared his remarks at the DRF/DRAF 10th Anniversary Celebration, held in Boston. Below is Willia...
Inclusion and Human Rights for Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
Mental Health and Human Rights: Identifying strategies to promote human rights in Mental Health 14-15 May 2018, Palais des Nations, Geneva S...
#timesup on the silence
Coming home after attending the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), I was encouraged to see more participation from women with d...
Funding and Building Power Across Movements
Last week, I was invited to a conversation at the Human Rights Funders Network to give context to five years of funding trends from the late...
Participatory Grantmaking: Power to the People
Nothing about us without us. This declaration has become a rallying cry for the disability rights movement.* It could just as well be a ca...