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“DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL (DRI) asked more than 500 brave and courageous families living in Ukraine what they are now experiencing during the war and what they need. The war has worsened the widespread problems families have faced as they…
This blog was originally posted on New Times Rwanda by Glory Iribagiza on June 26, 2023 Share Four years ago, a music video that now has millions of views on YouTube went viral, after a Rwandan woman with albinism, Claudine Mukarusine,…
Highlights UNICEF, UN Women, WHO, ILO, FAO, UNDP, UNFPA and UNPRPD worked together to develop an inter-agency statement on violence against girls with disabilities, listing the main rights violations they face, along with key advocacy messages targeting…
This blog was originally posted on UNESCO World Education Blog, by Professor Nidhi Singal and Dr Laraib Niaz, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, on May 31, 2023 An evaluation of UK…
Highlights UNICEF has been supporting the Government of Georgia to transform the system of disability assessment and status determination and to optimize social protection measures for children with disabilities. The study “The cost of raising a child…
WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING Summary UNESCO and Inclusion International, together with the Permanent Missions of Portugal and Colombia to the United Nations, are co-organizing a side event entitled " Inclusive Education: an imperative for advancing…
This document has been produced as part of the regional learning platform on care in Eastern and Southern Africa. The platform and its corresponding documentation were planned and conceptualised by UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Regional Office (…
Children with disabilities are often left out of the education system globally, and in Indonesia they still tend to be overlooked at preschool level. People with disabilities are estimated to comprise 15 percent of the world’s population, and in many…
The Child Functioning Module (CFM), developed by UNICEF and the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG), is intended to identify children with functional difficulties in a cross-nationally comparable way. It provides an estimate of the size of…
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