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An accessible-evacuation-route map pinned to a community-center wall, with braille-tagged exits and a wheelchair-evacuation pathway highlighted in safety-orange.

disasters

Disability inclusion in disaster preparedness: the Sendai mid-point, the 2024-26 evidence, and what 'leave no one behind' looks like operationally

Eleven years into the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, disability inclusion remains the most-cited and least-implemented commitment. The Türkiye-Syria earthquake, Pacific cyclone seasons, and Ukraine displacement data show where the gap still bites.

May 22, 2026 14 min read By Disability World

A Black woman in a wheelchair speaking eye-to-eye with a female physician in a modern accessible exam room, with a height-adjustable exam table lowered in the background.

women

Disabled women's healthcare access in 2026: the intersection CEDAW and the CRPD finally started to enforce together

Disabled women face compounded physical-access, communication-access, and attitudinal barriers in every healthcare setting. The 2025 joint CEDAW–CRPD Committee recommendation and 2024-26 national reform data show where the floor is finally rising.

May 22, 2026 16 min read By Disability World

A pair of hands caught mid-sign against a blurred modern classroom backdrop — the language in motion.

education

The state of deaf-education access worldwide in 2026

Twenty years after the CRPD recognised the right of deaf children to learn in a sign language, the gap between treaty and classroom is still measured in millions. A 2026 state-of-play across six countries, three teaching models, and the policy mechanisms beginning to close it.

May 22, 2026 19 min read By Disability World

A wide rear-of-chamber view of an empty UN-style council, the sweeping arc of delegate desks descending to a central podium, one desk's microphone-indicator glowing red — twenty years of the CRPD as an institutional moment.

crpd

Twenty years of the UN CRPD: where ratification has translated to enforcement — and where it hasn't

Two decades after the UN CRPD entered into force, 191 states are parties — but the Committee's individual-communications docket, the gap between Article 33 focal points and budget lines, and the patchwork of Optional Protocol uptake tell an uneven 2026 story.

May 22, 2026 20 min read By Disability World