Press Release Disability Wales to launch Unlocked Lives, a film that captures disabled people’s experiences through the different waves of the pandemic Unlocked Lives is the Disability Wales video project made possible thanks to funding by The National Lottery Community Fund Wales. Premiering at an online Zoom event on Friday 17th September at 6:30pm, the […]
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Accessibility in the world: What needs to change?
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! The past 15 months has seen highs and lows in terms of accessibility; from spikes in remote working opportunities and golden tickets to attending events online, to digital exclusion and accessibility barriers in shops and city centres. With all of this in mind, GAAD 2021 feels more significant than ever. […]
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, a day to mark the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and an opportunity to remember all those who died in the Holocaust and other genocides around the world. Disabled people were amongst those who were first targeted by the Nazi regime, with hundreds of thousands being subject to […]
Annual Conference: Beyond 2020 – New opportunities or same barriers?
Disability Wales/Anabledd Cymru Annual Conference and AGM. Beyond 2020: New Opportunities or Same Barriers? When?: 10am – 1pm: 12th November 2020 Where?: Held via Zoom due to Coronavirus Restrictions With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and upcoming Senedd Elections, what does the future hold for disabled people? Are Welsh Disability Rights laws within our grasp and […]
Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) COVID-19 Emergency Fund is now open
The £1.5m fund, provided by The National Emergency Trust (NET), will support grassroots DPOs across the UK, who have found it difficult to access funding, to respond to the COVID-19 needs of Disabled people. The funding will be administered and distributed through a partnership of DPOs across the UK. What work will be supported by […]
Launching our Disabled People’s Manifesto survey
The 2021 Senedd elections are approaching and Disability Wales wants to make sure that the voices of disabled people in Wales are heard, loud and clear. We will be publishing a Disabled People’s Manifesto, informed and driven by the experiences of Disability Wales members. In the principle of the Social Model of Disability, we want […]
Including disabled people in the Wales Africa sector
In 2019, one of our member groups, Disability in Wales and Africa (DWA), secured funding to carry out research looking at the barriers disabled people face in Wales, when trying to engage with the Wales Africa sector. The ‘Including Disabled People research’ was carried out by Dr Natasha Hirst and Dr Alun Hughes. The project […]
Housing and Disabled People: Britain’s hidden crisis
Disability Wales welcomes the EHRC report today highlighting disabled people’s experiences of housing. Urgent action is most certainly required in Wales in order to make houses adaptable and accessible to disabled people. There are far too many examples where disabled people are unable to move around their own home due to its inaccessibility. This is having […]
Opportunity for disabled people to help hold Government to account on its record on disabled people’s rights
In 2017 the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be examining the UK’s compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). This is an opportunity for disabled people in the UK to let the Committee know the big human rights issues that we face – and for […]
