Category: Disability Rights

Ella, a Burkinabe woman in her mid-thirties in her wheelchair with another member of their women's group next to her. Ella wears a sleeveless white top and smiles.

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Disability Rights

3 things to expect from the Global Disability Summit

White man in wheelchair shakes hand with young girl from Mozambique who uses crutches. They are in a brightly coloured yellow and blue school classroom. — Photo of Tom Shakespeare visiting Light for the World programme participants in Mozambique, 2017; including 11-year-old Marta Joao Lucas. (c) Carlos Litulo.

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Welcoming new Chair: Tom Shakespeare

people from the Mozambican disability rights movement including serveral wheelchair users and people with crutches and white canes during a street protest for International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

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Disability Rights

Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities

A big crowd of people stands around a food and Covid-Protection items wearing masks and waiting patiently.

Disability Rights

A humanitarian partnership in times of COVID

Inclusive Futures set of Covid Learning Reports

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Economic Empowerment

COVID-19 and the shocking impact of exclusion

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Economic Empowerment

Rights for people with disabilities

Conference of STates Parties to the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Disability Rights

5 things to take away from the COSP

Four people, including Light for the World staff, walk through a muddy environment after another cyclone devastated Mozambique. All are wearing rubber boots and face masks.

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Humanitarian Action

Lessons in resilience from Mozambique

kenya inbusiness programme participants at work

Disability Rights
Economic Empowerment

Disability Inclusion Facilitators – “the change starts with us”

Die Gewinnerinnen des Her Abilities Award 2020

Disability Rights

Announcing the 2020 Her Abilities Award Winners!