Welcome Catalina Devandas, Our New Executive Director! The Disability Rights Fund warmly welcomes Catalina Devandas as our new executive director. Her hire signals a bold new chapter for our strategic vision to strengthen human rights, disability justice, and gender transformation. After a rigorous and expansive global search, the Disability Rights Fund (DRF) and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund … Read more…
DRF/DRAF’s four Global Disability Summit Commitments have been helpful to guiding and building our work.
Though Rwanda has made great progress toward gender equality, women and girls with disabilities still face considerable stigma and exclusion, disproportionately higher rates of gender-based violence (GBV), and barriers to accessing inclusive support services and justice. Umuryango Nyarwanda w’Abagore Bafite Ubumuga (UNABU) is working to change these outcomes.
At GDS18, the Bangladesh government made a commitment to improve its disability data through the upcoming census, and Access Bangladesh Foundation was there to help.
You may have seen the announcement on 4th May from our Founding Executive Director, Diana Samarasan, that after 14 years of dedicated service, she will be stepping down from leadership of DRF/DRAF at the end of 2021. As with any thoughtful succession, Diana and the Board of Directors have been preparing for this moment for … Read more…