2025 media fellowships call for applications. Apply now tinyurl.com/2x5n3up3 GIJN Africa ICIJ The ICIR ICJR Media Rights Agenda NUCJ Nigeria Media Foundation for West Africa LasuRadio95.7fm Punch Newspapers ngrguardian-mobile WFM91.7 Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), UNILORIN Radio Uniport 88.5 Unique FM Yabatech Radio 89.3FM

📣 Applications are open for the 2025 Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals media fellowships. 👉 Disability & inclusion reporting 👉 Campus journalism, ethics, fact-checking and data-driven reporting 👉 Women in Journalism/gender reporting Closing date: May 8. Apply 👉 twp.ai/4imcCS

🧵(1/7) This week NCDJ & Cronkite School are honoring the winners of our Katherine Schneider Journalism Awards and the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability. Read about the winners & see their work here: tinyurl.com/2p8vs9s

Happy Birthday PDF!! 🎉 Today we celebrate 18 years of the Pacific Disability Forum, a movement born from resilience and driven by purpose. Here’s to inclusion, impact, and the journey ahead! #PDFTurns18 #DisabilityRights #InclusivePacific #StrongerTogether

🤩 Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 🌍 "Accessibility benefits all people, regardless of whether they have a disability or not." Kerry Thompson ✍️ Read & amplify Kerry's blog on why accessibility & allyship matter everyday. #GAAD2025 disabilityrightsfund.org/2025/05/15/acc…

Accessibility isn’t extra. It’s essential. #GAAD

📢Members of OPDs are invited to apply as researchers for the Knowledge from the Ground Up: Technical Papers Initiative! Selected applicants will research and develop papers on lived experiences, community knowledge, and disability rights issues, with full support including

🚨 Call for Expressions of Interest! We are seeking representatives for the Programme Committee of the 2027 World Conference on Deafblindness in Davos 🇨🇭 Are you a person with deafblindness and a member of a deafblind organisation? Apply by 30 June 2025 🔗shorturl.at/sLJYT

📢 WFDB has released a public statement urging fair pay and recognition for deafblind interpreters/guide-interpreters at global events. Their role is essential for the equal participation of persons with #deafblindness. 📄 Read the full statement here: wfdb.eu/2025/05/29/wfd…

Rising Tides, Raising Voices Indigenous Pacific Islanders with Disabilities Race Against Time to Ensure that When the Next Disaster Strikes, No One Is Left Behind The Pacific region is among the most impacted in the world by climate change. Among its low-lying islands, there is

The Kenyan government has actually shut down media houses broadcasting the protests live across the nation. This isn’t just censorship, it’s a dangerous attack on press freedom and a clear sign of democratic collapse! #RutoMustGo #SiriNiNumbers

🚨 New podcast alert! Our Global Research and Response Lead Anna Landre ♿️ joined The Wheelchair Activist to unpack why disabled people aren't just disproportionately impacted by disasters, but uniquely positioned to lead in climate and emergency planning. #TheWheelchairActivist

📣 Are you part of a youth-led OPD in Africa? We want to hear from you! 📝 Share your insights by completing this short survey before 23 July: 🔗 forms.office.com/Pages/Response… 📢 Share with other youth-led OPDs across Africa! #DisabilityRights #YouthVoices

Using the preferred language of the disability community invites disabled people in rather than pushing them away from the start. When we dance around the word “disabled” with euphemisms, it negates disability as an identity and implies that disability is shameful. #SayTheWord

Disabled, impacted by the Guadalupe River flooding need help? Discapacitade, afectade por las inundaciones del rio Guadalupe y necesita ayuda? Try | Trate 211, 311, 800.733.2767 Call/text (llame) Disability & Disaster Hotline 800-626-4959 or [email protected].

I really enjoyed working with Milo Watson to tell his story, and I was delighted to see it on the front page of the Irish Independent this morning! independent.ie/life/ive-alway…

🎙️ "True climate justice is impossible without an intercultural disability justice approach." 📺 ICYMI: Watch the recording of our webinar with Land is Life, Agents of Change: Indigenous youth & women with disabilities leading climate action 🔗 Webinar: shorturl.at/S1VSK

🗞️New blog! From Global to Local: Bringing 2025 Global Disability Summit Commitments to Life An-Sofie Leenknecht writes that GDS commitments must be anchored in strong local movements & disability-inclusive development must be funded & tracked. disabilityrightsfund.org/2025/07/23/fro…

According @unicef #Gaza strip has highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Disability inclusion strategy &policy should guide UNICEF interventions during this time #ForEveryChild Catherine Russell Angeline Akai Disability Justice Project #GazaStarving Humanity & Inclusion UK ICRC in Israel & OT PRCS

🔥 Happy World Youth Day! 📽️ We are proud to premier our short film: Inclusive Democracy: Youth with Disabilities Shifting Political Power in Uganda featuring the energizing youth members of Show Abilities Uganda! 🔥Watch & retweet! youtube.com/watch?v=NS0egL…