Global disability news and resources
This page lists the countries in Global with resources and recent highlights.
Countries
- International News
- Americas
- Asia-Pacific
- Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Middle East and North Africa
Recent Highlights
Their mission? To mould us. The persistence of segregation in education, from its colonial roots to now. Plus a love-hate relationship with education. (Nov, Disability Debrief)
Unequal partnership Funders should support the disability movement more directly: analysis of recent research that reveals grassroots organisations of persons with disabilities are funded as “indirectly as possible”. (Nov, Disability Debrief)
The Charter of Solfagnano G7 commitment on disability inclusion:
“We strongly reaffirm our commitment to show leadership and ambition, in line with the UNCRPD, and to collaborate, towards its full implementation with all international institutional partners representing persons with disabilities, associations, third- sector organisations, local communities and the private sector that intends to support the recognition of the right of all to full and effective participation in the civil, social, political, economic and cultural life of our countries.” (Oct, G7 Italia 2024)
Discuss, curse and flirt Debrief discussion of signed communication in Nepal and International Sign. (Oct, Disability Debrief)
What went wrong? Exclusive coverage on the Debrief of the crisis at the International Disability Alliance and exploration of the changes needed in disability leadership. (Sep, Disability Debrief)
Paralympic Paradoxes Debrief feature on the tensions between Para sport and disability advocacy:
“Disability rights are about levelling the playing field without any exceptions. Sports are about fairness of competition that leads to winners and losers.” (Sep, Disability Debrief)
New ILO working paper exposes significant ‘disability wage gap’. “Higher unemployment rates, lower earnings and a tendency towards self-employment characterize the world-of-work experience of many people with disabilities:”
“The paper, which includes new data, finds that those with disabilities who are working are paid 12 per cent less per hour than other employees, on average, and that three-quarters of this gap – 9 per cent – cannot be explained by differences in education, age and type of work. In low and lower middle-income countries this disability wage gap is much larger, at 26 per cent, and almost half cannot be explained by socio-demographic differences.” (Aug, ILO)
Localization and organisations of persons with disabilities: case studies on inclusion in humanitarian funding. One of the key takeaways is:
“Local OPD funding landscape is done as ‘indirectly as possible’. Donors prefer to fund project delivery INGO intermediaries. These intermediaries channel their funding to national umbrella OPDs/federations that then channel funding to other OPDs who are engaged to deliver smaller bits of the project. The amount that trickles from donors to smaller OPDs is small as huge chunks of budgets are retained by the INGOs and national OPD associations.” (Aug, GLAD)
UN Flagship Report On Disability And Development 2024 (Jun, UN)
ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improve:
‘researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials. But when researchers customized the tool with written instructions directing it not to be ableist, the tool reduced this bias for all but one of the disabilities tested.’ (Jun, UW News)
How People with Disabilities Use the Web updated resource to help “developers, designers, content creators, and others understand the reasons behind creating accessible digital products”. (Jun, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative)
Open letter to the international disability rights community on Gaza “As a human rights movement, the disability rights community cannot remain silent.”
“For Gazans with disabilities, the circumstances could not be worse: the complete collapse of basic vital services, displacement, starvation, disease, and indiscriminate bombing have created a nightmare scenario in which their very survival is jeopardized. Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid exacerbate the challenges they face, limiting access to food, medicine, assistive devices and other vital supplies. While no official numbers are available, many children and adults with disabilities have been killed, including long-time disability rights defenders Bader Mosleh and Hashem Ghazal.” (May, A collective of human rights activists)
Don’t shut the door behind you A Debrief feature on how Gatekeeping undermines the disability movement:
“In almost twenty years in the disability sector, I’ve seen time and again how an overzealous guarding of spaces and ideas can hinder progress. The very structures we create to organize and advocate can end up holding back new voices and ideas.” (Mar, Disability Debrief)
We need to talk Does the disability movement need a strategic reset? Debrief feature exploring the crisis at the International Disability Alliance (IDA). (Feb, Disability Debrief)
“I'd fight like hell for you”: Debrief interview with Julia Watts Belser, on not giving up on each other in the climate crisis (Feb, Disability Debrief)