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New UN Resolution on Easy to Understand Communications
24th March 2023 | Manel Mhiri
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a new resolution about promoting Easy to Understand Communication for accessibility of persons with disabilities. The new resolution is a good advocacy opportunity for our network to encourage the use of easy-to-understand communication and promote the Listen Include Respect Guidelines.
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Launching Working Groups and Discussion Groups for Members
14th March 2023 | Kimber Bialik
Inclusion International is launching 9 new working groups and discussion groups for our members to come together and talk about the big issues!
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Tell us how Listen Include Respect can help you!
8th September 2022 | Kimber Bialik
We are working on making new tools and resources to help our members use Listen Include Respect, and we want to hear from you about how we can make it easier to use.
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Guide to self-advocacy from Brazil
16th August 2022 | Stephanie Lima Ferreira
Instituto Jô Clemente (IJC) are an Inclusion International member from Brazil. Recently self-advocates from Instituto Jô Clemente (IJC) have worked on a guide to self-advocacy. Stephanie Lima Ferreira, is an Advocacy Assistant and one of the authors of the guide. Stephanie explains more below!
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Inclusion at the 15th Conference of State Parties
1st July 2022 | Luis Gabriel Villarreal
I am Luis Gabriel Villarreal. I am a self-advocate from Bogota, Colombia. In June, I travelled with my colleagues from Asdown to New York to attend and participate in the 15th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Japanese Arts and Culture Festival by People with Disabilities
1st January 2022
A cultural arts festival that collects and showcases pieces by people with disabilities opened in 2020 and runs across 6 events and 2 years, with the support of our regional member, Inclusion Japan.
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Training self-advocates in Africa
18th December 2021
In December 2021 as part of the Inclusion International and Inclusion Africa project Inclusion Matters, self-advocates from Colectif Tubakunde, Rwanda, Inclusion Ghana and FENAID Ethiopia were trained by Empower Us self-advocate leaders.
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Global attention to including people with intellectual disabilities in climate action
25th November 2021
Our President, Sue Swenson, called for inclusive climate policies at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).
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Take part in the Global Survey for Organisations of Persons with Disabilities
21st October 2021
The International Disability Alliance (IDA) has launched its 2nd Global Survey and we helped to make the survey accessible so that self-advocate organisations can take part!
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Self-advocates in Bangladesh call for inclusive employment
17th March 2021
From 12-14 March 2020, self-advocates in Bangladesh came together with the Inclusion International team to participate in Empower Us training in Dhaka.

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Global attention to including people with intellectual disabilities in climate action

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