Deaf women and girls in Zimbabwe are calling for urgent government action to end systemic discrimination and ensure their full inclusion in national life, according to a new policy brief by advocacy group Deaf Women Included (DWI). The organisation warns that Deaf women face compounded marginalisation
Organisations working with Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have welcomed the national disabilities policy launched this week describing it as a positive development in uplifting livelihoods of persons with disability. President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday launched the national disabilities policy as part of measures to ensure inclusivity. In
Deaf Women Included (DWI), an organization that seeks to raise the power of women and girls with disabilities has called on for action from various stakeholders to address the needs of People with Disabilities. Speaking during a sensitization meeting with organizations the offer gender based violence
Advocacy groups against gender based violence have lamented existing legislation gaps when it comes to the protection of People with Disabilities. Stakeholders yesterday converged in Harare to identify ways and challenges that affect women and young girls with disabilities under the scourge of Gender Based Violence. Onai
People with disabilities(PWD) have bemoaned challenges they are encountering on accessing Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services in the country. Director of Deaf Women Included (DWI) Agness Chindimba said the failure to assign sign language interpreters by most health institutions has qualified language barrier as a chief
Zimbabwe is a signatory to the UNRPD which states defines discrimination on the basis of disability” means any distinction, exclusion or restriction on the basis of disability which has the purpose or effect of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal
People living with disabilities have expressed concern over government's reluctance on implementing policies and promises that were made to the electorate. This was said at a media briefing held by disability activists and Deaf Women Included in Harare today, where they were petitioning the government to
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