Disability Rights Across the Globe
With support from Access Bangladesh Foundation, disabled street hawkers in Dhaka have joined together to demand official recognition as people with disabilities.
More than one billion people in the world, one in seven human beings, have a disability.
Despite their enormous numbers, society has largely ignored people with disabilities. But in this global climate of neglect and outright discrimination, a powerful movement calling for rights and participation is beginning to gain momentum — and, while nascent, it is telling very different stories than the ones we have grown so used to hearing. (See report for Disability Rights Fund.)
