For the 3rd year running, the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) is championing the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by organising the European Disability and Development Week.
From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. Against all women and girls, including those living with disabilities. The time […]
More and more development and humanitarian actors are now using the Washington Group Questions (WGQ) to collect data on persons with disabilities. The report ‘Disability Data Collection: A summary review of the use of the Washington Group Questions by development and humanitarian actors’ presented at the 2018 World Humanitarian Forum on 22 October by Humanity […]
The European Disability Forum (EDF) and the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) have joined hands to produce a common analysis and set of recommendations on the EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework.
The FORUS, formerly known as the International Forum of National NGO Platforms (IFP / FIP), held its General assembly last June. On this occasion, Jean-Marc Boivin, Head of Institutional Relations at HI and member of Coordination SUD’s board, was elected treasurer of the FORUS. We asked him to give us some insight in the involvement […]
In January 2018, Handicap International changed its name to Humanity & Inclusion. The latter is nothing but new at HI since its Inclusion unit was created 15 years ago, in 2003. Here are a few questions about inclusion we asked to Hervé Bernard, Head of HI’s Inclusion unit.
This July, HI attends the annual High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development, which will be dedicated to “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”.
In June, a delegation from HI attended the Conference of State Parties (CoSP) to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in New York, to present its work on women and girls with disabilities, disaggregation of data by disability and humanitarian action, among others.
The World Urban Forum 2018-WUF9 hosted a number of events where different actors could share their experience in implementing the New Urban Agenda-NUA, a document endorsed by the UN General Assembly in December 2016, over a year ago.