This factsheet addresses persons with disabilities who are affected and exposed to heightened risks, and left out of humanitarian assistance, as they encounter multiple environmental, institutional, and attitudinal barriers.
It addresses the gaps preventing humanitarian actors from turning commitment to action and the recommendations for Donors and UN agencies.
This Index reports on the state of CSO sectors in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. It addresses both advances and...
Many women are discriminated against because they are women. Having a
disability compounds this gender-based prejudice. Women with disabilities
in many regions of the world including Arab countries ...
The Syrian crisis has generated the largest refugee movement since the Rwandan
genocide and is described as the defining refugee crisis of our era. According to the
United Nations High Commissioner ...
This social development bulletin, published by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), highlights the challenges faced by persons with disabilities in humanitarian emergencies. Th...