Sudan funding drops 73% as 1.2m refugees with disabilities lose out
Sudan’s refugee funding has collapsed by nearly three-quarters this year, with monthly per capita support crashing from $11 to just $4. The financial freefall…
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Transform global disability services for 0.5% of GDP
The Global Disability Inclusion Report 2025 drops a number that should make governments squirm: transforming disability services worldwide would cost just 0.1–0.5% of GDP. That’s pocket change in national budget terms, yet 1.3 billion people with…
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Colombia’s SIM card ban traps Venezuelan refugees offline
María, a 52-year-old Venezuelan refugee with cerebral palsy, holds a dead phone outside Bogotá’s immigration office. She’s been in Colombia for three years but…
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Ukraine’s Shelters Fail People with Disabilities
Nine out of ten bomb shelters across Ukraine cannot accommodate a wheelchair. As air raid sirens wail through Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro, people with…
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12.4 Million Refugees with Disabilities Face ID Document Barriers
Twelve and a half million refugees with disabilities can’t prove who they are. That’s one in seven of the world’s 82.4 million forcibly displaced…
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Uganda cuts 42% of families from food aid programmes
Uganda’s new food aid system has locked out 42% of households with people with disabilities, according to fresh research from Humanity & Inclusion. The…
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Rohingya Food Vouchers reduced to $6 a month as Crisis Deepens
The World Food Programme announced in March 2025 it’s slashing food vouchers for Rohingya refugees from $12.50 to just $6 per person monthly. The…
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Tigray’s 336,000 disabled adults cut off from digital aid
Two years without phones or internet has left 336,000 adults with conflict-related disabilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region unable to navigate the digital systems now…
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89% of Aid Apps Lock Out 2.8M Refugees With Disabilities
The Global Disability Innovation Hub’s latest study exposes a brutal truth: 89% of humanitarian AI tools fail basic accessibility standards, cutting off 2.8 million…
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156,000 refugees with disabilities cut off from food aid
UNHCR’s PRIMES 3.0 system has locked 156,000 refugees with disabilities out of food aid across Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. The new biometric registration demands…
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EU law demands accessible apps but exempts refugee aid tools
The European Union’s Digital Services Act mandates full accessibility compliance for commercial platforms by 2026, yet carves out exemptions for the very tools meant…
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Johns Hopkins: 84% of refugees prefer therapy by WhatsApp
Refugees with disabilities are abandoning clinic chairs for encrypted chat windows. Johns Hopkins’ 2024 Global Refugee Mental Health Study found 84% of adult refugees…
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Sudan’s War Destroys 67% of Darfur Phone Networks
New satellite analysis shows Sudan’s conflict has obliterated two-thirds of telecommunications infrastructure across Darfur, severing digital lifelines for 420,000 internally displaced adults with disabilities.…
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