January 2018 Issue Vol. 4 LIV 2017, Global Citizenship My disability awareness journey began in the early 1990s, when I worked as a primary school teacher in a […]
Representation of people with disabilities (both good and bad)
Tom Hanks in Forest Gump Paramount Pictures When I tell people I’m a writer with a disability, I often get asked a few similar questions. One of them […]
Transforming education for children with disabilities
Challenge They often face many barriers to attending, participating in, and ultimately benefiting from school. Children with disabilities are less likely to persist in school than children without […]
How AI can improve the lives of people with disabilities | NOVA
Kayden Bowen is a big-smiling 12-year-old boy who loves music and fast cars. He can’t walk or talk, is legally blind and can only use the little finger […]
Five facts about life for people with disabilities in developing countries
Why Global Citizens Should Care To achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the world must address issues that affect the most vulnerable, including people with disabilities. Join Global […]
World Bank Group Commitment to Disability-Inclusive Development
Commitment 1: Inclusive Education 1.1. Based on SDG 4 (“Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”), aim to make all World Bank-funded […]
World Bank Group Announces New Disability Inclusion Initiative
LONDON, July 24, 2018 – Today at the World Disability Summit, hosted by the UK Department for International Development (DfID) in collaboration with the Government of Kenya and […]
Protecting the rights of people with disabilities is everyone’s “moral obligation”
Protecting the rights of people with disabilities is everyone’s “moral obligation” June 18, 2018 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday it was a “moral imperative” to ensure […]
What I Learned from Peter Singer About Disability and Infanticide
In the 1970s, Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer, perhaps best known for his book Animal Liberation (1975), began to argue that it was ethical to give parents the […]
Monitoring and evaluation of disability-inclusive development
Lack of data and information on disability and the status of persons with disabilities at the national level makes them invisible in official statistics and impedes the achievement […]