GLAD Network

Great welcome in Baku for #WUF13 All set to accelerate progress toward inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. Join our side event on catalytic funding for disability inclusion. 🗓️20 May 12:00–13:30 📍ONE UN Room B 🔗Register: globaldisabilityfund.org/un-gdf-to-conv…

At the opening of #WUF13, @antonioguterres warned of a growing global housing crisis, urging action to leave no one behind. Join @UN_GDF on 19 May at Dialogue 1 to learn how we’re advancing #DisabilityInclusion in accesible housing and resilient & inclusive cities. #HousingForAll

Displaced people with intellectual disabilities face massive barriers to support. Join @InclusionIntl & @IRAP on 21 May to discuss disability inclusion in asylum processes. 🕒 3pm UK / 10am NY 🌍 Member-only 🔗 buff.ly/E1DuRSf

Strengthening Gender-Responsive and Disability-Inclusive Transformative Care and Support Advancing and strengthening gender-transformative and disability-inclusive care and support systems is fundamental to the full and effective enjoyment of human rights. Efforts to transform care and support systems must actively and systematically advance non-discrimination and gender equality across society. Achieving this requires identifying who is excluded or discriminated against, understanding how and why, and recognizing those experiencing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. It also requires pinpointing inequalities in care and support outcomes and opportunities, as well as patterns of discrimination in laws, policies, and practices. Following an intense collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and her team (Special Procedures, UN Human Rights Council), with peer review and peer assist support provided by a number of UN Funds, Programmes and Agencies including @OHCHR, UNDP, and, UN Women HQ units, Regional and Country Offices within and beyond the scope of the ongoing global joint programme on Unpaid Care, Disability, and Gender Transformative Programme, supported by the @UN_GDF Fund (GDF), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), Cross-regional Networks of Women with Disabilities, @un_women is very pleased to launch the Policy Paper ‘Towards a Better Future: Strengthening Gender Responsive and Disability Inclusive Transformative Care and Support. This policy paper provides key insights into the intersection of gender and disability within care and support environments. It emphasizes that developing comprehensive and inclusive care systems is essential for promoting gender equality and protecting the rights of both care recipients and caregivers, especially persons with disabilities. Acknowledging that care needs evolve throughout a person’s life, the brief underscores the importance of adopting a life-course approach when designing and implementing care systems.

The Listen Include Respect guidelines were created by people with intellectual disabilities, for everyone. 🤝 US organizations: join us May 14 to see how LIR is changing recruitment and leadership. Register: buff.ly/2dgwQp9

Join us on Thursday for the last session in our series of @WHO IDA global webinars, which will focus on a critical discussion to advance health equity for persons with disabilities: centring organisations of persons with disabilities #OPDs in health decision-making processes. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… @DisabilityFrm @RIADISorg @WorldDSDay @WHO

How do we fix the exclusion of children with disabilities in emergencies? By treating OPDs as equal partners. 🤝 With @EduCannotWait & @IDA_CRPD_Forum, we hosted workshops in 🇨🇴 & 🇳🇪 to build local action plans. See how OPDs are taking the lead: buff.ly/nJJ4Snz

IDA Vice President Sanja Tarczay spoke at the @WomenDeliver pre-conference today, bringing a clear message: gender equality cannot be achieved without the leadership and resourcing of women with disabilities.

🚨Global Survey on aid for disability inclusion 🚨 Aid cuts put disability-inclusive programs at risk. OPDs from aid recipient countries to complete a global survey to document the impacts of aid cuts on persons with disabilities. 🔗 forms.office.com/e/pEYw4wA7Z6 🗓️ Deadline: 9 May

Fadhil’s leg brace helps him go to school, play, and thrive. Assistive technology unlocks independence — but many children still lack access. ❤️ Donate: atscalepartnership.org/learning-witho… @GlblCtzn @MessikaJewelry #ATChangesLives #LearningWithoutLimits

What does social justice look like in practice? 📹These 10 stories offer 10 answers: ow.ly/M44W50Yz2it #ThisIsSocialJustice

ATscale has joined forces with @GlblCtzn and @MessikaJewelry to launch #LearningWithoutLimits. Assistive technology like glasses, hearing aids, and wheelchairs is essential for learning not a luxury. Take action: globalcitizen.org/en/action/is-t… Donate: atscalepartnership.org/learning-witho…

Teachers in Colombia are transforming classrooms into sanctuaries 🇨🇴 With support from @EduCannotWait and @IDA_CRPD_Forum, educators are learning how to remove barriers for students with disabilities in emergency settings. Read the full blog: buff.ly/LcVfB2b

Over 100 million people have benefited from improved social protection coverage through @ilo's support. Behind these numbers are real lives changed, people better able to retire with dignity, access healthcare & support their families in times of crisis. ow.ly/wWbc50Yws5B

My 2 cents at the #GDS organized side event at CSW70: Globally, women represent up to 80% of caregivers for persons with disabilities and the elderly, with an increase to 90% in low and middle-income counties[1]. In terms of poverty, it is predicted that as a result of engagement in unpaid caregiving responsibilities, women miss out on up to $10.8 trillion annually according to Oxfam. We must do more to ensure voice of women with disabilities in care support and beyond. @UnitedNations @UN_Women #includivecareagenda @UN_GDF

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on day one, GLAD members discussed using the CRPD anniversary to secure concrete commitments, accelerate financing strategies, strengthen cross-network exchange and embed #disabilityinclusion into mainstream decision forums. @FCDOInclusive, @IDA_CRPD_Forum

We just started GLAD AGM2026 ! Thrilled to have co-chairs @FCDOInclusive and @IDA_CRPD_Forum welcome our speakers and attendees — united to build a more inclusive world for all. #disabilityinclusion #leavenoonebehind

Soon we start with #GLADAGM2026! Over 90 GLAD members will join an in-person discussion on achieving a disability‑inclusive society — for and with all. #disabilityinclusion #leavenoonebehind