Disability and inclusion Archives | Page 16 of 19

A 45-year-old lady is standing on crutches. She is wearing bright red clothes and a boy is asleep on a bed behind her.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women with disabilities often face double, or rather triple, discrimination: for being disabled, for being women and for being poor.

Munazza Gillani, March 2016

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Colleagues at Sightsavers have been working on a series of blogs around gender equity, particularly focusing on women with disabilities in development.

Sightsavers, March 2016

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

The objective of the project was to ensure people with disabilities can participate equally in socio-economic activities and community life.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

I’d like to draw attention to the rights of women during disasters.

Fred Smith, March 2016

A young woman sitting in her wheelchair on a dirt road.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women and girls with disabilities belong to two vulnerable groups, so they potentially face double discrimination.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, March 2016

Close up of hands holding a disability identity card.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

To mark the 60th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, Sightsavers presents a series of blogs on gender and disability.

Tracy Vaughan-Gough, March 2016

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

Findings of a synthesis report to collect knowledge, experience and learning from Sightsavers’ projects with an economic empowerment component.

A woman, smiling, hugs her daughter and best friend.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A community-based participatory project, aiming equitably to involve community members, organisational representatives and external researchers.

Bhanvari, who is blind, weaves in her home in the Bikaner district of India.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

This framework document clarifies what disability inclusion means for Sightsavers and sets out how we can achieve it.

Children stand outside their school in Bangladesh.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers report identifying the causes of vulnerability to disasters for people with disabilities in Satkhira, Bangladesh.

We protect sight, fight disease and make sure everyone can claim their rights.

Find out how your support can make a huge difference and change lives.

Disability and inclusion

Disrupting the patriarchy through disability rights

Violence against women with disabilities

‘Inclusive’: Barrier-Free Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities

Rights during disasters: what about women with disabilities?

Women with disabilities: a call for better representation

On gender and disability

iReflect Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion

Voices of the marginalised: January 2016 update

Empowerment and inclusion: strategic framework 2015

Disability, disasters and empowerment

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all