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On the International Day of Education, we would like to amplify the voices of our partners from the African Disability Forum, calling for advancing inclusion of persons with disabilities in education, across African countries. Along with the African Disability Forum, we co-produced a video to highlight their viewpoints.

At the Kousseri displacement site on Lake Chad, 13-year-old Mahamat decides that his disability will not stop him from getting an education.

WHO published a report in early December highlighting the barriers faced by people with disabilities in accessing health information and services. The report proposes 40 measures for overcoming these barriers. As a humanitarian organisation that has been working alongside people with disabilities for 40 years, HI worked closely with WHO on this report.

Bérangère Gohy works as a Rehabilitation Specialist at HI. She has co-ordinated, in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières and Karolinska Institutet, a research project aimed to assess and refine a tool to measure mobility independence of people after a trauma.

We asked her a few questions about the research project, and its relevance for people who have experienced traumas.

Abdel was 16 years old when he lost his leg in a landmine explosion. HI has helped him rebuild his life.

Assisting landmine victims is one of the principal obligations of the Ottawa Treaty6. It is also HI’s raison d’être

From 21st to 25th November 2022, HI took part in the 20th Meeting of the States Parties to the Ottawa Treaty, a good opportunity to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Treaty and the 30th anniversary of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

25 years ago, the adoption of the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty marked an unprecedented diplomatic victory over these cowardly weapons. The Treaty led to a decline in the number of casualties, the destruction of millions of mines and a virtual end to their use. Since 2014, mine use has made a reappearance in conflicts, with a subsequent increase in the number of casualties. The 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty is an opportunity to urge States to step up their efforts and put a permanent end to the use of landmines.

HI conducts clearance and depollution operations in Raqqa, North Syria, and its surroundings since 2018. 25 HI demining experts are on task on a daily basis.

HI is proud to inform that its telerehabilitation software OpenTeleRehab has been found to be a Digital Public Good in alignment with the Digital Public Goods Standard.

Zawadi is living in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where she manages a small business. Through training and mentoring, HI helped her to cope with the effects of COVID-19 and expand her activity.

12-year-old Patrick is benefitting from digital schooling in the Kakuma refugee camp. Thanks to accessible and adapted materials, he is prepared to achieve all his professional goals.

Perrine Benoist is Armed Violence Reduction Director at HI. She explains the progress of clearance, 25 years after the signature of the Ottawa Treaty against landmine.

Acknowledging the devastating humanitarian consequences of bombing and shelling of towns and cities, 83 States adopted an international agreement to better protect civilians from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, at the Dublin Conference on 18 November 2022.