We’re honoured to announce Abia Akram, a disability rights activist, as our Equal World campaign ambassador! She's been involved in the disability rights movement since 1997.

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

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.

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.

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. 

Cameroon has become the second African country to begin to ratify the African Disability Protocol, which addresses unique issues that affect people with disabilities in African countries.