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A close up photograph of someone's hand running over a sheet of braille.

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It has become the latest country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty, which allows exceptions to standard copyright laws so books can be reproduced in braille and other accessible formats.

September 2019

Picture of a sign language chart painted onto a school wall in Uganda.

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The petition is part of Sightsavers’ Equal World campaign, and calls on the government of Kenya, the United Nations and its member states to uphold the rights of people with disabilities.

July 2019

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It is estimated that there are over 134,600 people with albinism living in Malawi, many of whom face deep-seated discrimination.

June 2019

A man holding a sign that reads: Join us in the fight for disability rights and help us change the world.

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The petition is part of Sightsavers' campaign calling for political leaders and global organisations to uphold the rights of people with disabilities around the world.

June 2019

Dominic Haslam sat at a desk talking into a microphone

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Dominic, who is Sightsavers’ Director of Policy and Programme Strategy, is recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to people with disabilities.

June 2019

A close-up of people placing their hands on top of one another.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers hosted a workshop focusing on practical approaches to disability inclusion, where participants generated ideas to make sure healthcare is as inclusive as possible.

Andrea Pregel, June 2019

Old black and white photo showing a group of young men on a mountain slope.

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On 20 February 1969, Sightsavers supported men with visual impairments on an expedition to raise awareness about blindness.

February 2019

A village in the Yendi region of Ghana, featuring circular mud huts and trees.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A pilot project in Ghana was established to understand how disability data may be collected in a system delivering NTD interventions. Read the report here

A grandmother is helping her young granddaughter stand.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

The purpose of this annual report is to share learning, highlight our work on inclusion and stimulate and challenge both ourselves and our partners.

A group of representatives from disabled people's organisations hold up signs saying 'Make it count'.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

Sightsavers works with partners in over 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support the empowerment of people with disabilities.

Art student painting the Inclusive Eye Health mural in Bhopal.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Art students in Bhopal painted striking murals along the wall of a hospital to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Andrea Pregel, December 2016

Women smiling at camera, holding plate with omelette

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

An evaluation of the EU-funded Connecting the Dots project run by Sightsavers in Uganda completed in August 2016.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

This supplementary evidence review looks at the effects of interventions designed to improve employment prospects for adults with physical or sensory disabilities in low and middle income countries.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

This inclusive project in Bangladesh successfully promoted social and employment inclusion for people with disabilities, and developed new guidelines.

A 45-year-old lady is standing on crutches. She is wearing bright red clothes and a boy is asleep on a bed behind her.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women with disabilities often face double, or rather triple, discrimination: for being disabled, for being women and for being poor.

Munazza Gillani, March 2016

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Colleagues at Sightsavers have been working on a series of blogs around gender equity, particularly focusing on women with disabilities in development.

Sightsavers, March 2016

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

The objective of the project was to ensure people with disabilities can participate equally in socio-economic activities and community life.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

I’d like to draw attention to the rights of women during disasters.

Fred Smith, March 2016

A young woman sitting in her wheelchair on a dirt road.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women and girls with disabilities belong to two vulnerable groups, so they potentially face double discrimination.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, March 2016

Close up of hands holding a disability identity card.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

To mark the 60th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, Sightsavers presents a series of blogs on gender and disability.

Tracy Vaughan-Gough, March 2016

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

Findings of a synthesis report to collect knowledge, experience and learning from Sightsavers’ projects with an economic empowerment component.

A woman, smiling, hugs her daughter and best friend.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A community-based participatory project, aiming equitably to involve community members, organisational representatives and external researchers.

Bhanvari, who is blind, weaves in her home in the Bikaner district of India.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

This framework document clarifies what disability inclusion means for Sightsavers and sets out how we can achieve it.

Children stand outside their school in Bangladesh.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers report identifying the causes of vulnerability to disasters for people with disabilities in Satkhira, Bangladesh.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

The achievements from the first four years of the “Strengthening Sightsavers reach and impact in West Africa” 2012-2015 programme supported by Irish Aid.

People in Bhopal, India attend a busy eye screening meeting.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers project identifying a number of barriers that can prevent people from engaging with providing and collecting data on disability.

Manju, an Indian woman with a disability, sits and thinks.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers exhibition booklet by photographer Graeme Robertson focusing on stories of empowered lives and the impact of exclusion.

News / Disability and inclusion /

World governments will meet at the United Nations General Assembly this weekend, and a key item on their agenda is the Sustainable Development Goals.

September 2015

An illuminated sign that reads 'End inequality' is held up amid the darkness at the Light the Way event in London.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

This September, world leaders are meeting in New York at the UN General Assembly to set global goals for the next 15 years.

Sightsavers, September 2015

An older woman stands alone in Bangladesh.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A report summary exploring what persons with disabilities and older people understand as the causes of their social, economic and political exclusion.

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Tanzania joins the push to make accessible books more widely available

Sightsavers Kenya launches disability rights petition

Sightsavers petition calls on government of Malawi to protect people with albinism

Sightsavers launches disability rights petition

Sightsavers director Dominic Haslam awarded an OBE

12 tips to make health programmes inclusive for people with disabilities

Sightsavers marks 50th anniversary of Mount Kilimanjaro expedition

Ghana Disability Data Disaggregation Pilot Project: Results of Integrating Disability in to Routine Data Collection Systems

Annual inclusion report 2018

Disability inclusion in international development programmes

Young artists get creative to promote disability inclusion

Connecting the Dots: Investing in youth with disabilities in Uganda

Economic independence of people with disabilities

Educating for inclusion in Bangladesh

Disrupting the patriarchy through disability rights

Violence against women with disabilities

‘Inclusive’: Barrier-Free Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities

Rights during disasters: what about women with disabilities?

Women with disabilities: a call for better representation

On gender and disability

iReflect Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion

Voices of the marginalised: January 2016 update

Empowerment and inclusion: strategic framework 2015

Disability, disasters and empowerment

Strengthening Sightsavers’ reach and impact in West Africa: end-of-term evaluation

Everybody counts: policy brief

Framing perceptions: an exhibition

Disability and the SDGs: from words to action

Global goals: the most important thing in the world?

Voices of the marginalised: summary