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Together we make a difference!

Four people with white cane carry crops on their shoulders

MyRight is the Swedish functional rights movement's organization for international development cooperation and development assistance.

We were formed in 1981 and are a non-partisan and non-religious organization.

MyRight works to ensure that people with disabilities around the world have increased access to their human rights and are able to live independently, free from poverty, in inclusive societies.

Our main task is to strengthen functional rights organizations so that people with disabilities have power over their own lives.

Vision and mission

MyRights vision is a world where all people with disabilities enjoy equal rights and opportunities for a dignified life free from poverty in inclusive societies.

MyRights mission is to strengthen functional rights organizations so that people with disabilities have power over their own lives.

MyRight's board

MyRight's board consists of seven representatives from the various member organisations and is appointed by the association's annual meeting. 

Between MyRight's annual meetings, the board has the responsibility and confidence to lead MyRight's operations and make the organisation's decisions. The board works with overall and strategic issues.

Contact information for the board can be found here.

Head Office

The daily operations are run from the office in Stockholm. 

MyRight's office administers large and small projects and also programs that affect entire countries or regions.

Contact details for the office can be found here.

MyRight's member organisations

MyRight has 19 member organizations whose common membership base amounts to 220,000 members.