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...
Waiting for Our Rights
“Sorry. You are a rights holder on paper – and for the rest [you] have to wait.” For the International Day of Persons with Disabilitie...
The Déjà vu Hurricane
Like many Louisianans, I experienced déjà vu when Hurricane Harvey hit Louisiana on August 29th, the same day Hurricane Katrina hit Louisi...
Why we need specific funding for the rights of women with disabilities
In the years following the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), international disability rights ...
Respect for Indigenous Persons with Disabilities
Everyone, including persons with disabilities, has multiple identities, and we all experience multiple forms of discrimination or privilege ...
Social Justice Funders Spotlight: Disability Rights Fund
The genesis of the Disability Rights Fund can be traced back to 1999 and a brief exchange that its founding director, Diana Samarasan, had i...