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- Disability Rights
5 things to take away from the COSP
Did you miss the Conference of State Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities? Sound ...
- General
‘Exclusion among the excluded’: sign language & poetry at the United Nations
Her Abilities Award winner, educational leader and author Bernice Adekeye Oyeleke has written a powerful poem. In it, she reflects ...
- Humanitarian Action
- Eye Health
“The climate fight is right here, right now”
This World Environment Day we look at the impact the climate crisis is having on eye health; and the urgent ...
- Disability Rights
- Humanitarian Action
Lessons in resilience from Mozambique
People with disabilities tell us how they’ve stayed strong in the face of cyclones, devastating floods and COVID-19.
- Economic Empowerment
International Workers’ Day: Employment rights = disability rights!
International Workers’ Day on May 1st is a day to celebrate working people around the world. It’s also a day ...
- Disability Rights
- Economic Empowerment
Disability Inclusion Facilitators – “the change starts with us”
On World Creativity and Innovation Day, 21 April, we are highlighting trailblazing programmes which strengthen disability rights, including Light for ...
- Eye Health
First ever glaucoma toolkit for Sub-Saharan Africa
Light for the World is proud to launch with our partners a ‘first of its kind’ toolkit to combat glaucoma, ...
- Disability Rights
Announcing the 2020 Her Abilities Award Winners!
Three exceptional winners from Turkey, Nigeria and New Zealand – all under the age of 40 – have scooped the ...
- General
- Economic Empowerment
- Humanitarian Action
RéCouVrer – Together for a better future
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on the world at large and even more so on fragile communities. In ...
- Disability Rights
- Economic Empowerment
- Eye Health
- Humanitarian Action
- Inclusive Education
2020 – a year of good things?
Thanks to our donors and partners, we’ve turned a hard year into one of mutual support and kindness.
