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As climate change and conflict intensify across Pakistan, emergency systems continue to exclude people with disabilities. Warning messages, evacuation routes, and shelters are often inaccessible, leaving many without critical information when floods or violence erupt. “Evacuation routes are built for people who can run,” Deaf author and policy advocate Kashaf Alvi says, “and information is broadcast in ways that a significant population cannot access.”
About this video: NEW RELEASE: World Institute on Disability Fellow Munir Sewani shows how disabled students and faculty are working to make higher education more inclusive in Pakistan.
About this video: NEW RELEASE: World Institute on Disability Fellow Kasim Sajjabi explores how Uganda's oil boom is excluding disabled workers.
About this video: NEW RELEASE: World Institute on Disability Fellow Robbie Francis Watene highlights the urgent need for disabled-led monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilties.
About this video: UGANDA: The rain returns to Uganda. For disabled livestock farmer Steven Bukaya, that means crawling through mud because the work doesn’t stop.
About this video: SAMOA: Our film on Indigenous Pacific Islanders with disabilities facing rising sea levels just won a major climate journalism award. See why it stood out among 1200+ entries.
About this video: NEW RELEASE: Once green and dependable, the land Steven Bukaya farms has been reshaped by deforestation and unpredictable rain.