Disabilities
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • August 15, 2022
When she was only 10 years old, Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame realized that she could no longer read her classroom’s blackboard at her school in eastern Ghana. She eventually learned that she had retinal dystrophy, an irreversible degenerative condition that…
- Categories: Disabilities, Women as Changemakers
- Kelechukwu Ogu
- • July 11, 2022
LAGOS, Nigeria — Mauot Louis and his family ran out of their home in Sudan one day in the early 1990s, leaving their puppy behind. They were forced out by Nuer fighters, rebels from the second-largest ethnic group in…
- Categories: Disabilities, Human Rights
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 19, 2021
The Security Council gathers with President Biden; commercial surrogacy is legalized in New York State; Kamala Harris on women and democracy; a UN secretary-general aspirant meets with Canadian diplomats. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
- Vera Dimoplon
- • March 12, 2021
While recently attending a virtual tour of the United Nations Office at Vienna, I was astonished to learn that the translation services did not include sign language interpreters. There are six official UN languages — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian…
- Categories: Disabilities, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame
- • June 15, 2018
When I was growing up in Ghana, if someone had told me that one day I would hear my name announced as a member of a United Nations treaty body, I would hardly have believed it. But this is…
- Categories: Disabilities, Women
- Mary Olson
- • July 5, 2017
The new nuclear weapons ban treaty, to be most likely adopted by the United Nations General Assembly this week, arises from hope for our future. The negotiations for the treaty have elevated new information about the damage from ionizing…
- Categories: Disabilities, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Nuclear Disarmament, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 7, 2016
Our daughter, Isabella, is slowly losing her sight. I don’t say this with ease or fear but conditionally, as her vision can be fully restored, her doctor has reassured us, as he ups her medications and we wait for…
- Categories: Disabilities, WORLDVIEWS
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