Disability Rights Advocacy Center(DRAC) has organized a Validation Meeting to present the preliminary findings of the Break The Cycle (BTC) project’s baseline and needs assessment to the project stakeholders, get…
Organizations of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria have called on its members to take preventive measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. As at March 22, 33 African countries…
Disability Rights Advocacy Center (DRAC) has held a stakeholders’ consultative meeting to improve access to justice for persons with disabilities (PWDs). The Executive Director of DRAC, Dr. Irene Ojiugo Patrick-Ogbogu…
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Coronavirus: CCD expresses dissatisfaction over FG’s inability to provide Disability-sensitive safety measures for Persons with Disabilities.
The Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), a premier organization of, and for persons with disabilities that works to promote disability rights, independent living, and social inclusion of persons with…
Star Children Development initiative, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has embarked on measures to reduce poverty among the Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Lagos. Manager of the NGO, Mrs. Adelani Fadeola…
A Non-Governmental Organization, Centre For Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) has organised a training programme for people with disabilities in Kaduna State geared towards strengthening and building their capabilities to resist…
The Disability Rights Advocacy Centre (DRAC) has organised a three-day training on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Persons with Disabilities for organisation of persons with disabilities in the…
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How Doctors Inability To Communicate With My Deaf Sister Claimed Her Life Two Weeks Before Her Wedding – Funmi Ogunro
Founder, Friends of the Deaf Int’l Foundation, Funmi Ogunro in this exciting interview with Sejoro Ekundayo told INN how she lost her deaf sister due to communication problems with medical…
By Lanre Olagunju The community of Persons With Disabilities in Nigeria will forever be grateful to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition)…
Disability Rights Advocacy Center (DRAC) on 24th -25th February, 2020 organized a two-day training of media practitioners on Disability and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. The training was designed…
By Clement A. Oloyede, Daily trust A coalition of organisations led by women with disabilities has said that women and girls with disability have poorer health and less opportunities for…
A non-governmental organization, Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) on Friday called on the Federal Government to establish the National Disability Commission (NDC) to help toward the realisation of the objectives…
By Ene Osang 0 A coalition women-led Disabled Persons Organisations (DPO): the Inclusive Friends Association (IFA), Advocacy for Women With Disabilities Initiative (AWWDI), Faecare Foundation and Haly Hope Foundation has…
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Fighting Corruption: CCD Charges Persons With Disabilities To Learn New Approach For An All-Inclusive Approach To Fighting Corruption
As part of its effort to strengthen the capacity of persons with disabilities to ensure transparency and demand accountability at all levels of governance, the Centre for Citizens with Disabilities…
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Women And Girls With Disabilities Suffer Discrimination And Exclusion Three Times More Than Their Non-Disabled Counterparts – Irene Patrick-Ogbogu
Dr. Irene Patrick-Ogbogu making her opening speech Disability Rights Advocacy Centre (DRAC) on Monday 10th February launched her new project tagged; Break the Cycle (BTC) – ‘Empowerment to Combat Violence against…