Disability in Colombia

Meet The Blind Birder Reimagining Accessibility In The Outdoors. See also part 2. (2023, Science Friday)

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Sign Languages

Key components in the professional ethics of sign language interpreters in healthcare contexts: a qualitative study in Colombia. (Feb, BMJ Open)

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Colombia’s journey to produce disability statistics (2022, Data 4 SDGs)

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Collecting disability disaggregated data in disaster risk reduction: Findings and lessons learned. (2024, CBM)

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Social Protection

Disability Certification in Colombia: An Analysis from the Perspective of Inclusive Social Protection:

“Given that the certification of disability in Colombia mainly aims to identify individuals living with a disability and does not conduct a needs assessment or collect additional information, it is not possible to use it to assess and design social protection programmes for this group. The mismatch between the objectives is one of the reasons why individuals do not see the added value of having a disability certification, and it is not clear what their benefits are or how it can contribute to the inclusion of people with disabilities in social programmes.” (Jul, Disabilities)

Food voucher programme for people with disabilities (In Spanish, 2024, el Caribe)

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Overview

Listening to the voices of children with disabilities in Escuela Nueva schools. (2023, Disability and the Global South)

Mother says teacher offered her money to take her autistic daughter out of class (in Spanish, 2022, Blu Radio)

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Higher Education

Hundreds of young people with disabilities are learning at a new university founded by Jeison Aristizábal. (2023)

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Cultivating Autonomy Colectiva Polimorfas: ‘Donors should listen. That’s the number one thing,’ says Yoli. ‘That’s what we do ourselves – we listen to the voices of people with disabilities that may be different from ours.’ (link to pdf, 2022, Mama Cash)

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Overview

2025 Rapid Gender and Disability Analysis in Border Areas (RGDA). (Jun, Relief Web)

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Migration

In deadly Darién Gap, pregnant women and disabled people are increasingly vulnerable. (2023, Doctors without Borders)

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ABC of Legal Capacity a podcast exploring the concept and what you need to know. (In Spanish, 2023, Asdown Colombia)

Documentary on law 1996 of 2019: “a path to equality”. The development and first three years of a law promoting legal capacity of persons with disabilities. (2022, Paiis Uniandes)

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Despite legal progress, full inclusion of persons with disabilities in Colombia remains an unfulfilled promise: UN expert. (Jul, OHCHR)

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

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