August 4, 2020 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Evaluation & Learning Manager Disability Rights Fund & Disability Rights Advocacy FundEmail: mkawanochiu@disabilityrightsfund.org As a member of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (DRM), DRF/DRAF call for an end to police violence and abuse against persons with disabilities and their family members The COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor … Read more…
July 20, 2020 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Evaluation & Learning Manager Disability Rights Fund & Disability Rights Advocacy FundEmail: mkawanochiu@disabilityrightsfund.org COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (DRM) calls for an emergency response to the catastrophic abuse of human rights of persons with disabilities in institutions Over the last four months, the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (DRM) has been gathering data to … Read more…
June 2, 2020Contact: Melanie Kawano-ChiuEmail: mkawanochiu@disabilityrightsfund.org Since 20 April 2020, through a global survey, the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (DRM) has been gathering data to conduct rapid independent monitoring of state measures concerning persons with disabilities in the context of the pandemic. Today, the initiative reaches a new milestone with the launch of the COVID-19 … Read more…
By: Patrick Onyango, edited by DRF/DRAF Somalia has experienced a protracted conflict during which the constitutional, institutional, policy and legislative framework for the promotion and protection of human rights, including the rights of the country’s 2.2 million persons with disabilities, has not been operational. However, following the Global Disability Summit held in the UK in … Read more…
By Jorge Manhique and Milika Sakala The Government of Rwanda ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and its Optional Protocol in 2008. Prior to ratification, the Rwandan Government developed a legal framework to protect and promote the rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs): Law No. 01/2007 on Protection of … Read more…