- Making it Work (MIW) is a global multi-stakeholder initiative supporting the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
- Source is an international information support center designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.
- The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs, currently coordinated by Handicap International, is a coalition of thousands of people and U.S. non-governmental organizations working to convince the U.S. government to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Press
Media Coverage
April 5, 2012
Why hasn't the U.S. signed an international ban on land mines?
by Emily Alpert, The Los Angeles Times
February/March 2012
Heading Back to Haiti
by Ability Magazine
January 22, 2012
The Top 100 Best NGOs
by The Globe Journal
January 20, 2012
Libyans work to remove mines
by Al Jazeera English
January 11, 2012
Two years later, Haitian Amputees Still Have a Long Way to Go
by Rebecca Jacobson, PBS NewsHour
December 7, 2011
Disabled in Sierra Leone make gains
by Lynn Morris, Global Post
November 18, 2011
U.S. Leads Challenge to Ban on Cluster Munitions
by Sandra Siagian, Inter Press Service
October 11, 2011
Senegal: Demining machine clears path for a better future
by IRIN Africa
July 26, 2011
Opinion: U.S. Should Take the Final Step to Ban Landmines
by Jean-Baptiste Richardier and Elizabeth MacNairn, Handicap International, Special to Roll Call
July 21, 2011
Educational approaches to tackling disability in war-torn countries
by Elisha Yoon, MediaGlobal
May 21, 2011
An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Richardier, Co-founder and Executive Director of Handicap International
by Rahim Kanani, Editor-in-Chief, World Affairs Commentary (cross-posted on The Huffington Post)
May 2011
Wendy's story: Why Old Takoma is an epicenter of worldwide humanitarianism
by Howard Kohn, Takoma Voice (Pages 10-11)
May 9, 2011
Helping the Most Vulnerable: Handicap International and the Hilton Prize
by Tom Watson, onPhilanthropy.com
April 1, 2011
Muriel speaks with Ms. Wendy Batson, Executive Director of Handicap International -- 2011 Winner of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
by Muriel Glasgow, United Nations Yak
March 16, 2011
Handicap International Named Recipient of 2011 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize
by The Huffington Post staff
February 24, 2011
Church leader reverses stance on HIV, reaches out to those affected
by Kathleen Toner, CNN, CNN Heroes
January 12, 2011
Prosthetic limbs give quake survivors chance to rise
by Maria Schiavocampo, NBC Nightly News, featured on TheGrio.com
January 7, 2011
Haiti earthquake relief: How charities spent the money
by Ben Coleman and Marcus Baram, The Huffington Post
July 14, 2010
In Haiti, amputees face different kind of healing
by PBS NewsHour, Global Health
April 12, 2010
Leg lost, dancer is caught between caregivers
by Deborah Sontag, The New York Times
March 21, 2010
73 legs, 12 arms – hundreds more to go
by JoNel Aleccia, msnbc.com
February 22, 2010
Countless lost limbs alter life in Haiti’s ruins
by Deborah Sontag, The New York Times
February 17, 2010
Amputations push Haitians closer to the edge
by Mitchell Landsberg, The Los Angeles Times
February 12, 2010
In post-quake Haiti, a surge of amputees
by Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio
February 9, 2010
Life without a limb
by John Vause, CNN
February 8, 2010
For Haiti’s countless amputees, a hard road ahead
by Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, The Wall Street Journal
February 4, 2010
New amputees worry about life ahead
by Ken Dilanian and Marisol Bello, USA Today
February 1, 2010
Utah charity open for business in Haiti
by Kristen Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune
January 29, 2010
Disability charity charts out years of great need in Haiti
by Nicole Wallace, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
January 29, 2010
Haiti moves past broken bones to future needs
by Joanne Silberner, National Public Radio
January 28, 2010
Haiti amputees face dire quest for prosthetics
by JoNel Aleccia, msnbc.com
September 11, 2008
China's Disabled: Going for Gold
by Austin Ramzy/Beijing, TIME Magazine
U.S. journalists, please contact:
Afsoon Namini
Director, External Relations
Direct: +1 (240) 540-3530
Office: +1 (301) 891-3002, ext. 102
Email: anamini@handicap-international.us