The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa supported the National Association of Societies for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH) in partnership with the Zimbabwe National Association for Mental ...

HelpAge is starting a three-year programme to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian agencies to deliver age and disability inclusive emergency response, as part of the innovative portfolio of ...

Can the state force a mentally disabled woman to use contraception? How should a judge decide whether a woman in an abusive relationship has the capacity to make decisions about her own body? What is ...

Budget measure to cut welfare spending could affect 30,000 people under 35 Younger people receiving the disability support pension are set to have their ability to work reviewed, under measures to ...

Supported decision-making is an approach that enables individuals with cognitive, intellectual or psychosocial disabilities to make and communicate their own choices with the assistance of trusted ...

Imagine a woman spending a whole day on crutches or a wheelchair only to find out her existence as the most redundant one by evening each day. Imagine she has to struggle thrice more than a normal ...

Madam Veronica Denyo Kofiedu, President of Women with Disability Development and Advocacy Organisation (WODAO), says strengthening the capacity of women, and especially those with disabilities, can ...

Ghana Somubi Dwumadie (GSD), a four-year disability programme with focus on mental health, has awarded a one million Ghana cedis grant to five disability and women's rights organisation in the country ...