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  • Juju and the Durga Puja festival during the COVID-19 pandemic

    By IDA

     - April 6, 2021

    Juju is a young adult with autism living in North East India. He wrote a letter to his tutors and friends at Shishu Sarothi, a leading Non-Profit Organisation in the region, in which he recounts how he managed to turn his frustration about the COVID-19 pandemic into something beautiful and inspiring. It is a story about solidarity, creativity, and finally, the victory of good over evil.

  • Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD): 2021 Asia Pacific Disability Constituency Intervention

    By IDA

     - March 26, 2021

    Persons with disabilities are drastically affected and left behind even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Prior to this, we constantly faced barriers to equally participate in society.

  • “I do not feel well enough informed to make my decision”: vaccination in Nepal

    By IDA

     - March 25, 2021

    The National Federation of the Disabled - Nepal (NFD-N) is an umbrella organisation that advocates for the rights, interests and entitlements of people with disabilities across the country. With more than 300 member organisations in 74 districts, NFD-N is the leading disability rights movement in Nepal – and the centre of countless views of a variety of people with different abilities, opinions and hopes. Pawan is a man in his thirties with a physical disability and works with NFD-N at the provincial level and Rashmi is the mother of a young girl with a physical disability living in Kathmandu. The following interview reflects some of the many responses that Light for the World received to its call for input on the current situation around COVID-19 in Nepal.

  • Asia Pacific Peoples’ Forum For Sustainable Development 2021

    By IDA

     - March 18, 2021

    One policy engagement platform that discusses the Agenda 2030 is the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD), a regional forum that aims to provide regional perspectives on the implementation as well as follow up and review of the progress of the 2030 Agenda. This year’s theme is “Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and the Pacific”.

  • Seminario Web: COVID-19 y Discapacidad en América Latina

    By IDA

     - March 16, 2021

    El 23 de febrero de 2021, La Alianza International de Discapacidad (IDA), La Red Latinoamericana de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales de Personas con Discapacidad (RIADIS) y CBM América Latina presentaron el seminario web “COVID-19 y personas con discapacidad en América Latina” con la participación de Ana Lucía Arellano, presidenta de IDA y directora de RIADIS.