Disability in Nepal

Impact

Adolescents with Disabilities and Caregivers Experience of COVID-19 in Rural Nepal (2023, IDS)

Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda. (2023, Space and Culture)

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Expressing solidarity with Nepal's Protest movement “As a part of disability rights movement, Nepalese disability community recently has started a street struggle demanding community support and personal assistant service.” (May, Independent Living Centre - Pokhara)

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Overview

Intersectionality, Indigeneity, and Disability Climate Justice an article exploring evidence and policy frameworks. (Feb, Bill of Health)

Discussion paper on climate change and disability rights. A study in Bangladesh, Kenya and Nepal. “Lack of transparency of government budgets both centrally and decentralised across different ministries makes it difficult to understand where money is being spent and potentially being re-allocated during times of climate crisis.” See also videos from Malawi and Zimbabwe. (2023, CBM UK)

A case study on Nepal’s changing climate and its impact on communities including persons with disabilities “I have never seen anything
like that in my whole life. The whole earth was shaking. Other people went
uphill as the flood started to rise. Later, I went up with the support of my
son-in-law too. I came here looking for better access to the market and
other facilities. But I lost everything. I am an old man with a physical
disability, it is very difficult for me now” (2022, CBM Global)

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Conference of Parties (COP)

This 28-year-old from Nepal is telling COP28: Don't forget people with disabilities. (2023, NPR)

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Sign Languages

Making Sense an open access book on language ethics, and understanding in Deaf Nepal. By E. Mara Green. (Aug, University of California Press)

Supporting deaf learners in Nepal via Sustainable Development Goal 4: Inclusive and equitable quality education in sign languages. (2022, Int. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)

Nepal’s first PhD candidate from the deaf community campaigns to promote Sign language (2022, Nepali Times)

The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal (2022, American Anthropologist)

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Overview

‘Sikka’ harmonises diversity and accessibility Blind Rocks’ new music video with audio description and closed captions ensures accessibility for blind and deaf audiences. (Jul, Kathmandu Post)

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TV and Film

How Nepal’s films are failing blind, deaf viewers: “Lack of audio descriptions and closed captions in movies is a critical shortfall for 2.2 percent Nepalis who are living with disabilities.” (Aug, Kathmandu Post)

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How schools are including children with disabilities (2022, UKFIET)

Books adapted into Nepali Sign-Language by Let's Read Asia with the Nepali Government (2021, All Children Reading)

Revisiting Equity COVID-19 and Education of Children with Disabilities (2021, WISE)

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From staying home to thriving entrepreneurs: stories from four young people with disabilities. (2023, CBM UK)

Lived Employment Experiences of Persons with Physical Disabilities: “over-protective behaviour from family members, discrimination by employers in recruitment, and continuance in employment were barriers.” (2022, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research)

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Feminist Visions for Disability Liberation a new Intersectional Feminist Forum and short video featuring calls of women with disabilities. (Mar, Disability Rights Fund)

Notions around a “Successful Woman with Disabilities”: Exploring voices of girls in Nepal, Malawi and Uganda. “Success for both girls with and without disabilities encompassed not just financial independence and accumulation of material wealth but also personal characteristics such as kindness and human connection.” (2023, Inclusive Education Initiative)

Disability and Gender: Lived Experiences of Economic Hardships Faced by Women with Disabilities from Sudurpaschim Province (2022, International Journal of Social Sciences and Management)

My Lens My Reality a photovoice study on the rights of women with disabilities. I appreciated the slippers that illustrate inclusion and exclusion (p16): “The slippers symbolize there are many members in the family. Dad, mom, brother, sister who are actually going outside to work. And me, I’m inside, with my disability, I was always in my room.” (2022, SDDC)

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Profile of Pratima Gurung “Gurung shares her love for books growing up, the exclusion of marginalised and indigenous narratives in the curriculum, and the rights of indigenous and disabled communities.” (May, Kathmandu Post)

Empowering Voices: Advocating for indigenous people with disabilities worldwide, a submission to the UN. Focused on case studies from Kenya, Brazil, Nepal and Bangladesh:

“Persons with disabilities within indigenous communities experience disproportionate disadvantages because of the intersectional discrimination they face on account of multiple axes of oppression. Many disability activists from indigenous communities stress the importance of analyzing the historical context and its ongoing impacts, specifically slavery and colonialism. Within indigenous communities, disability cannot be extricated and analyzed outside the context of psychosocial disabilities and intergenerational trauma caused by colonial violence and oppression.” (Feb, Minority Rights Group)

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Breaking Chains “Sanjaya Raj Neupane follows the story of Santoshi BK, a woman grappling with a psychosocial disability following her husband’s death by suicide.” (Mar, Disability Justice Project)

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Driving Change Short documentary on Deaf activists campaigning for Deaf people to have the right to get a driving licence. (Mar, Disability Justice Project)

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Living with the stigma of facial disfigurement in India and Nepal. (Link to pdf, Feb, Face Equality International)

Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia: “most countries address support services, including assistive devices, only from the perspective of a social security measure for persons with disabilities living in poverty, failing to uphold the rights of those not meeting those eligibility criteria.” (2022, Societies)

Situation Analysis of the rights of persons with disabilities. (2022, UNPRPD)

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Crossroads a video documentary showing the lives of blind women in Nepal particularly in terms of relationships (and two whose husbands left them). Hardship, hope, and the collective efforts of activists working to change. (Mar, Disability Justice Project)

Chhaupadi practice puts women with disabilities at higher risk On the practice of isolating women while menstruating: “Disabled girls and women are more prone to getting sexually violated while staying away in chhau sheds.” (2022, Kathmandu Post)

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Adapting Menstrual Health Interventions for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Emergencies (2023, Frontiers of Sanitation)

Field note on Promoting Disability Friendly WASH in Schools. (2023, UNICEF)

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