October 2021

This situational analysis addresses the question of: “what is the current situation for persons with disabilities in Nepal?”

COVID-19 pandemic has indiscriminately swept through the globe but affected Indigenous Peoples especially Indigenous Women and Indigenous Persons with Disabilities disproportionately..

Women with Disabilities Issues, Voices, and Concerns in Family: Pratima Gurung Breaking down traditional silos within family by girls and women with disabilities with a new narrative among family and society has to commence for making progress toward equality, development, and inclusive society for all.

An overview of the evidence: Brigitte Rohwerder This report draws on and expands previous work by Brigitte Rohwerder looking at disability stigma in developing countries (written for K4D) and information on stigma in the situational analyses of the six Disability Inclusive Development (DID)1 programme countries.

State practices, responses and the experiences of persons with disability within the region. This idea for this special volume on Disability and COVID-19 in South Asia came up at a time when all of us, globally and locally, were struggling with the pandemic for the majority of 2020. The focus on South Asia in this special issue shares many patterns of similarities and differences with other regions within the Global South such as Africa, South East & Central Asia and Central and South America.

Toward a gender, indigenous and disability Inclusive COVID19 Response NIDWAN’s Key Recommendations for COVID 19 :1) Follow the information provided by the government and civil society organizations and ensure all the information should address and be inclusive to the diversity of all peoples.2) Women, Indigenous Peoples and Persons with Disabilities must receive information about infection mitigating tips, public restriction plans, and the services offered, in a diverse accessible formats (plain, sign, simple and in mother tongue/local language) with use of accessible technologies

Advocating for disability rights in Nepal

There are approximately 411 million Indigenous Peoples (IPs) living across Asia who are confronted with an array of vulnerabilities

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues estimates that there are more than 370 million indigenous peoples around the world. Complementing this data, indigenous women’s organizations estimate that approximately 50 percent—roughly 185 million of the total indigenous population are women. The World Report on Disabilities estimates that 15 percent of the world’s population has a disability, on average. If this percentage is applied to the estimated 185 million indigenous women worldwide, it would be reasonable to place the number of indigenous women with disabilities at 28 million. This would be a conservative estimate, however, given that disability rates are higher among women (19 versus 12 percent in men) and also among indigenous women in different countries (ranging from 22 percent among Aboriginal women in Canada to 47 percent among Aboriginal women in Australia

The study reviews the situation of indigenous persons with disabilities in the enjoyment of their human rights. It looks at the main relevant legal standards — the Convention on the Rights of Persons…