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Blogs: Building Disability-Centered Narrative Power

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“DRF’s grant has been able to support [us] to influence access to SRH services for women with disabilities across national frontiers.”...
Leveraging the Global Disability Summit Commitments to advance Implementation of CRPD Concluding Observations
National Union of Disabilities Organizations in Rwanda (NUDOR) With a membership of 13 affiliate organizations, one of NUDOR’s key objecti...
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...