Calling all youth filmmakers! Each year, UNICEF publishes a report called State of the World’s Children. Next year, the theme is on children with disabilities. We’d like hear your voice, so send us a one minute video reflecting your perspective on disabilities. ThemeChildren living with disabilities have the same rights as all children: the right to live …
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Statements of support have been made on behalf of people with disabilities, but as Obongifreke Friday, 27, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Akwaibom in Nigeria writes, governments must provide educational opportunities that will help change attitudes about disability. A disabled person could be described as a person with permanent illness or injuries which makes it difficult and quite inconvenient …
India can rightly claim to be making continuous efforts to look after persons with disabilities, writes Vibhu Sharma, 24, a Correspondent from Delhi in India, but the issue now is to implement the laws that are on the books. In 1997, India set up a corporation to provide loans to disabled people to facilitate their economic …
The #IamABLE campaign for youth with disabilities stems from the request of young people from across the Commonwealth, including Antigua and Barbuda’s Commonwealth National Youth Delegates Jonelle Walsh and Kurt Williams. The campaign seeks to contribute towards the development of a more inclusive society by addressing the marginalisation and discrimination of people with disabilities in …
Bolo Tech, possibly the first Urdu speech therapy platform in the world, was designed by Shanza Khan Shahani, one of the 2019 Commonwealth Youth Award finalists, and Rabab Fatima. Commonwealth Correspondent Ahmed Umer Sohaib, 26, from Lahore, Pakistan, spoke to Shanza about the groundbreaking tool that is helping people with speech problems to communicate, and …
A teen amputee found hope in the most hopeless situation. That teen is now 27-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Umer Hafeez Rehman, from Peshawar, Pakistan. Here, he shares his moving life story and the importance of looking for the silver lining behind every cloud. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger—so the saying goes. But try telling …