- 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.
What We Do
Disability rights
Addressing social exclusion and discrimination
Worldwide, there are more than 600 million disabled people, 80 percent of whom live in developing countries. People with disabilities are commonly the poorest of the poor in society, experiencing social exclusion and discrimination at all levels. In fact, in developing countries 98 percent of children with disabilities do not attend school and 80 percent of people with disabilities live on less than $1 a day.
Receiving health care and treatment, going to school, working, and expressing oneself: Handicap International works in 60 countries and lobbies national and international governments so that these fundamental rights apply to everyone.
Campaigning
We support the drafting of national legislation to support the rights of people with disabilities. Handicap International contributed to the French law on “equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people,” which was promulgated in February 2005. Handicap International also participated in the drafting of the international UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and is now working with local organizations in a number of countries to ratify and implement the Convention.
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