17-year-old Sada Igikundiro was born deaf and when she was six years old she also lost her sight. Sada could no longer communicate with the outside world and life turned into a passive waiting at home for another day to pass. But thanks to a project where deafblind people learn to communicate using tactile sign language, her life changed.
Do you want to know more on how persons with disabilities are affected by conflicts and how we can create meaningful participation and inclusion of
The Global Disability Summit (GDS) will be held on 16-17 February. GDS is a global summit where representatives from governments, authorities, financiers, the private sector and civil society organizations meet for
In crises and disasters, people with disabilities are often the last to receive information and the last to receive help. Two young brothers from Syria
MyRight has written a guest column in the digital magazine ”Utvecklingsmagasinet”, which is run by FUF (Föreningen för utvecklingsfrågor). The column is about the importance of a disability rights perspective in
”The government wants to use aid as pressure for deportations. This is a worrying development ahead of the election, write representatives of thirteen organisations.” Dagens Arena has today
When Hidaya Alawi was 20 years old and gave birth to her first child, the first thing she heard from the care staff was that her baby was "abnormal".
Sameera Sandaruwan was only twelve years old when a falling accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Sameera completely lost her zest for life and
We hope you take the opportunity and do something that none of your representatives have done - take the lead in the work on international disability law issues! It writes Jesper Hansén, Secretary General of the organization MyRight.
Ibrahim Sadić is from Čelić in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is 27 years old and has not yet finished primary school. Ibrahim has been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP).
