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
Go give them their flowers. An essay on grief and memorial in disability community:
“As I think about love and loss, it makes me think about building community, and the need to recognise people sooner rather than later. To be disabled is to have your plans disrupted. We have to make time and space to give people their flowers when they’re alive.” (May, Disability Debrief)
Coming together as we fall apart Was the Global Disability Summit a Goodbye?
“The summit was a stocktake of worldwide progress made on disability rights in the past twenty years. And it was full of promises, meant to be the next step in taking that progress forward. But the event also demonstrated how governments focus selectively on only some areas of disability rights, and how marginalized groups get left off the agenda.” (Apr, Disability Debrief)
Global Disability Inclusion Report. An important global overview of available data on progress and challenges of implementing disability rights. (Apr, Global Disability Summit)
GDS Portal: Overview of the 800 Commitments made in 2025. (Apr, Global Disability Summit)
Flourish or fragment – how controlling the money matters for disability justice:
“As a disability activist, let me be clear, when funders retain control, they are forcing us to justify our strategies to people who may have no direct experience of our realities. Instead of trusting our lived experience and expertise, we’re made to fit into predefined boxes. Not only does this create a power imbalance, it also creates an upside-down reality, where funders, not people living with disabilities, decide what counts as progress.” (Mar, Alliance)
Stop work: Disability Debrief feature on the US aid freeze's devastating impact on disabled people:
’People with disabilities are impacted both as general beneficiaries of these programmes and also recipients of aid targeted directly towards them. Organisations responsible for service provision or advocacy for disabled people have been sent reeling, with many having to stop work and send staff home. Specialists see this as having “dreadful long term consequences” and even causing “multigenerational harm” to persons with disabilities and their families.’ (Feb, Disability Debrief)
Dataviz accessibility principles, demonstrated by the 2024 presidential election dashboards. (2024, Sarah L. Fossheim)
Migrants With Disabilities Facing Dual Neglect:
“Migrants with disabilities have mostly been ignored, making it difficult for them to cope with adverse circumstances associated with migration. Some migrants have acquired an impairment in their place of origin, yet decide to take the risk in search of better living conditions. Others may develop an impairment during their journey, such as getting injured while crossing jungle and desert areas, being chased and detained by law enforcement authorities or falling off of cargo trains they were travelling in.” (2024, OHCHR)
Their mission? To mould us. The persistence of segregation in education, from its colonial roots to now. Plus a love-hate relationship with education. (2024, 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”. (2024, Disability Debrief)
UN Flagship Report On Disability And Development 2024 An important overview of available evidence on disability:
“The report indicates that persons with disabilities are often left behind in the efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, with wide gaps persisting between persons with and without disabilities, particularly on food security, health, and access to energy and ICT. Considering COVID-19, the report assesses the different ways the pandemic impacted progress towards achieving these goals and identifies concrete steps forward that is inclusive for all.” (2024, UNDESA)
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.” (2024, G7 Italia 2024)
Discuss, curse and flirt Debrief discussion of signed communication in Nepal and International Sign. (2024, Disability Debrief)
Borg Diem words created by disabled people about disability experiences. (2024, Including Disability)
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. (2024, Disability Debrief)