TCI has now opened the call for applications for its Fellowship Program 2023. The core objective of this program is to build and capacity cadres worldwide with national level program engagements, and continued regional and global engagements. This will strengthen the TCI movement. The Fellowship will reframe the global ‘mental health’ momentum to a global […]
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) has been implemented in many parts of Africa for over four decades. Since the declaration of the sustainable development goals, Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) has been popularized for disability inclusion. Although each stakeholder is aware of contribution of CBR and CBID in empowering and enabling persons with disabilities, there seems […]
African Regional Human Rights System Legal Standards on the Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities. As discussed in accountABILITY: African Regional Human Rights System Advocacy Guide, the African human rights bodies consist of independent human rights experts whose job is to (1) monitor whether States are meeting their legal obligations under relevant African human […]
Launch of the WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities on the 2nd December 2022 at 14:00 – 15:30 CET / 8:00 – 09:30 EST / 18:30 – 20:00 IST. Please register More than 1 billion people worldwide experience disability, and this number is growing, driven by increased numbers of people with […]
The aim of this toolkit is to contribute to the growing global dialogue on the importance of data on persons with disabilities, specifically to provide some basic knowledge on data collection, analysis, and use of data for evidenced based advocacy. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT
The climate crisis is having an impact on everyone’s lives. Each year, we are witnessing more and more extreme weather events resulting in natural disasters and the increased need for humanitarian assistance. The impact of environmental degradation is evidenced by the movement and displacement of communities, loss of livelihood, family and social networks. Rising sea […]
The call for WHO’s #HealthForAll Film Festival 2023 is now open. Unleash your creativity. Send us your short films. Join the #Film4health global movement. Deadline: 31st January 2023 Application: http://bit.ly/HAFF2023 The World Health Organization invites independent film-makers, production companies, public health institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their […]
This past year has been one of progress and innovation in which the Inclusive Eye Health and Neglected Tropic .Diseases Initiative has been working in some of the most challenging regions of the world.We have recently been gathering some statistics: Between 2017 and 2021 we have supported the administration of 269,434,477 drug treatments, which is […]
This companion document to Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021-2030 (“the road map”) aims to support a range of stakeholders – including countries in which neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are endemic, international organizations and non-State actors – to achieve the road map targets through […]
We warmly ivite you to join us in Antigua & Barbuda in October for the 2022 5th Continental CBR/CBID Congress of the Americas as we work towards the ful lment of the rights of persons with disabilities in the Americas region. The conference is a hybrid format, so you can choose to either attend online or […]
