December 3 marks International Day of People with Disabilities. They are often excluded from the rest of the society. The long-term impacts of COVID-19 threaten to exacerbate this exclusion even further.
HI supports people with disabilities who are often left out during a crisis response. These are the main challenges that they continue to face due to the pandemic.
Review on the prevalence and risk of violence against children with disabilities, published by Lancet in July 2012 and carried out by Liverpool John Moores University’s Centre for Public Health, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention, and WHO’s Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability.