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This blog has been created to provide regularly updated content on HI’s advocacy work and in-depth analyses developed by the HI Institute on Humanitarian Action, formerly known as the Handicap International Foundation.
This blog has been created to provide regularly updated content on HI’s advocacy work and in-depth analyses developed by the HI Institute on Humanitarian Action, formerly known as the Handicap International Foundation.
By Julia McGeown, Global Inclusive Education Specialist, HI. This photo, taken yesterday at UK parliament, shows a panel debate organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education, where the focus was on Girls’ education. HI made sure that the additional challenges for girls with disabilities, was also on the agenda!
2019 is over, we celebrate another year of responding to the essential needs and promoting respect for the fundamental rights and dignity of persons with disabilities and vulnerable populations. As we enter 2020, determined to achieve concrete changes for a more inclusive and sustainable world, we wish you a wonderful year ahead!
A quarter of all civilian casualties across Yemen in 2019 were recorded in Hodeidah governorate. Despite a ceasefire in the port city being at the heart of last year’s Stockholm Agreement, Hodeidah has seen 799 civilian casualties since the Agreement was signed, the highest toll countrywide.
On the occasion of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, Humanity & Inclusion is pleased to share the new factsheet “Accessing Rehabilitation Services: A Challenge To Overcome”, which aims at making the case for rehabilitation in the context of UHC.
In the frame of the European Disability and Development Week (3-10 December), the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) launched the photo exhibition ‘Together for Inclusion’.
In the frame of the European Disability and Development Week (3-10 December), Humanity & Inclusion organised the panel-debate “Rehabilitation for inclusive development: optimal functioning, full participation!”, in order to discuss the potential of rehabilitation in development policies and programmes.
Humanity & Inclusion (HI) was present at the Fourth Review Conference to the Convention on the Prevention of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction in Oslo last week.
Published right after the launch of the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, this report aims to support their uptake and promote learning by example.
On December 3rd, the world celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. HI joins the global mobilization to call for persons with disabilities & their human rights to be put at the center of humanitarian and development efforts.