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While I get that invasive questions is uncomfortable and weird for a lot of people from Global North countries, people seem to be ignoring that our colleagues from the Global South have been experiencing this for years - and your own countries likely put people through much more onerous questioning.

Graphic titled Disability and the Care Agenda. It states that across seven low and middle income countries, more than 45 percent of persons with disabilities have unmet care and support needs. Illustration of a person sitting alone inside a house, imagining being outdoors with support.

You can explore the full Care Agenda Brief here: inclusive-policy.org/wp-content/u...

And for a closer look at the stories behind the data, watch our video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=USa3...

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A man in a lift in Kathmandu asked me where I was from and when I said New Zealand* he said "Wahay Black Ferns" which feels like a real win for #womensrugby #AoNZ

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Can you see the problem?

She works full time on a decent wage.

But her rent takes 2/3 of her salary.

And childcare takes pretty much 100% of her salary.

Yeh - that doesn’t work…

Can you see it??

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Meenakshi Balasubramanian, CIP Senior Research Associate, sits in her wheelchair.A text overlay shows her quote: “This day informs the community that a group of people are marginalised, invisible, and experience discrimination on a daily basis. It reminds us of the gap between what needs to be done and what is happening to reduce inequality.”

During the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, our team reflected on what this day represents. Here is one of those voices.

Thank you, Meenakshi, for your commitment at @inclusivepolicy.bsky.social to building the inclusive society we all deserve, with data lighting the way.

Who needs an alarm when you can have an ai alarm that is worse and you can't use and you just want to be woken up

Evidence is our roadmap. Action is our responsibility. This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we call for: better data, stronger financing, and policies that enable participation, autonomy, and equality for all.

EVIDENCE IS OUR ROADMAP.

Learn more: inclusive-policy.org/reports-and-...

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This year, CIP and our partners generated new evidence to understand where progress is happening, and where urgent action is still needed.

For the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we’re highlighting some of the MOST POWERFUL INSIGHTS from our recent reports and contributions.

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To wrap up this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we’re excited to share that we’ve officially launched our Instagram account: www.instagram.com/centerforinc...

We’ll be sharing our disability data, evidence, and key insights: all in one place. Follow us and stay connected!

YouTube video by Center for Inclusive Policy International Day of Persons with Disabilities: What does this day mean to you?

International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
A day to pause, reflect, and recommit.

At CIP, we work to ensure public policies truly include persons with disabilities. So we asked our team what this occasion means to them.

Your turn... What does it mean to you?

Module on Child Functioning – Teacher Version: A Comparative Evaluation - UNICEF DATA Historically, different definitions, methodologies and tools have been used to identify children with disabilities in population-level data collections, resulting in…

We’re proud to share new work we contributed to, published by @unicef.org with the WG.

CIP supported the validation and review of “Module on Child Functioning – Teacher Version”.

Why it matters: it shows whether teachers can reliably report on children’s functional status.

Desperately trying to get a few more plants into my new beds but the Welly wind has won.

The starkest difference between Britain and Ireland is surely the culture around death and mourning. They don't know what a month's mind is, we don't know why they have cartoons of Paddington Bear walking into the rain with a recently deceased public figure.

I've been thinking about this a lot, and tbf this time I can say things like "well it is 30 grams of protein" when I eat an entire wheel of Brie.

I grew up during the first skinny hyper obsession and while it was bad at least the fad diets were carb heavy. I'm not sure I can survive this again if pasta isn't reclassed as a super food.

I don't think it is too much to ask that those in media who do comms consulting declare their clients. #Speirghorm

They have ran some spectacularly bad takes in my life time and yet she still stands out. Impressive really.

Just gonna keep reminding myself that I am an expert in human rights and she is an expert in bad opinions.

The indo columnist who argued that women were making too much of a fuss about groping is currently in my mentions on LinkedIn arguing for more forced treatment and fewer rights safeguards and I am being so well behaved in ignoring her.

So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?

As a teenager I remember watching the Sinn Fein and the DUP coalition form in the North. Those on opposite sides of the troubles governing together after decades of violence.

It wasn't as surprising as this united front.

As a fairly-femme middle-aged cis-woman I get read as a teenage boy about once a week.

While the harm to me is minimal* and barely an inconvenience compared to what trans people face, it is still scary looking at countries arguing for more policing of gender.

*mostly it annoys my wife.

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.

It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.

It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.

Listen to disabled people.

In Ireland, more properties were bought this year by landlords than by people hoping to live in them. Mostly large landlords, not the sainted mom and pops of it all. People who already own tens or hundreds of properties bought even more of them. They're not fleeing the market, they're destroying it.

That's your "I inherited a house" or "I owned and then moved in with a partner" type scenario and the RTB's own data shows that that is *not* the majority of rental scenarios. The majority is landlords owning 3+ properties and often a great many more than that. LET THEM LEAVE.

Graphic announcing a new article titled Estimating the magnitude and scope of disability-related direct costs: a systematised review, with a link to inclusive-policy.org. Below, a laptop displays the cover of The European Journal of Health Economics. Decorative icons of a globe and folder appear around the graphic.

NEW ARTICLE ALERT!

We’re pleased to contribute to this systematised review on estimating disability-related extra costs, published in The European Journal of Health Economics.

It has been a long time coming, and we’re excited for how useful it will be.

Here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Just makes living here very special on a day-to-day level. It is lovely for a walk, and to bring people when they visit, but the real magic is the impact outside the fence.

I thought when we moved here that people were exaggerating the increase in birdlife, but now we really see it ourselves.

If they try and do the same terrible things again, it might stop them from doing new terrible things?

Also shouting at me to remind me to check my rat traps because this effort actually requires sustained community support and involvement.