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News and opinions

Latest updates on the Equal World campaign and Sightsavers’ disability inclusion work.

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News

Some of the campaigns team outside the UN building on the weekend of the Sustainable Development Goals Summit

Promise in peril campaign sends a message to world leaders

World leaders have received a petition with 48,063 signatures from around the world calling for action to protect disability rights ahead of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit.

Abia Akram, sitting in wheelchair smiling to camera

Abia Akram becomes Equal World campaign ambassador

Abia, a global campaign ambassador and disability rights activist, has been involved in the disability rights movement since 1997, ensuring that women and girls’ voices are heard.

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Campaigners urge ECOWAS to champion disability rights to get SDGs back on track

West African civil society organisations are calling on ECOWAS to commit to disability inclusion or risk de-railing the Global Goals

A big sand timer with people holding up glue, to show that time is running out to take action on the SDGs

World falling behind on disability rights

The Sustainable Development Goals promised to ‘leave no one behind’, but progress is far off track. To make sure people with disabilities are not left behind from vital progress, we need a rescue plan.

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Equal World statement at COSP16

Statement from Equal World Sightsavers at the 16th Conference of States Party to the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, delivered by Aissata Ndiaye.

Reya from Bangladesh sits at a desk writing. She has shortened limbs and is wearing a pink blouse.

“We need actions: words are no longer enough”

On the one-year anniversary of the Global Disability Summit, campaigners are calling on governments to follow through on commitments they made on disability rights.