Henriette Kwizera is 12 years old and has a physical disability. She lives with her parents, older brother and younger sister in Nyaruguru District in the Southern Province of Rwanda and is in her third year of primary school.
On 20 June, MyRight held its Annual General Meeting, where members gathered to discuss and decide on the organisation's activities and future.
Mariam Stafford fights against discrimination and violence affecting people with albinism in Tanzania.
Read highlights from MyRight's operations in 2022 in our Annual Report.
Everyone has the right to know their rights and receive accurate information related to sexuality and health. Many people with disabilities do not have access to any sexual information and are discriminated against in maternity and health care.
The annual meeting gives you as a member the opportunity to influence our work, meet other members, appoint elected representatives and discuss issues important to us in order to achieve our vision of a just world.
When Muamer Husejnović started looking for work to become financially independent, the Information Centre for Persons with Disabilities (IC Lotos) provided the support he needed.
MyRight has recently completed a successful project on inclusive education in Nepal with funding from the Postcode Foundation. The project has inspired similar training in other parts of Nepal.
”After seven years at MyRight, I have realised that knowledge about the vulnerability of people with disabilities is frighteningly low,” writes Mia Munkhammar, Communications Officer at MyRight.
The government's scrapped support for information activities in Sweden is hitting MyRight hard.
