UN: Focus on Civilians With Disabilities in Wartime

June 21, 2017 Video Video: People with Disabilities at Risk in the Central African Republic People with disabilities face high risk from violent attacks and forced displacement and are being neglected by aid groups as conflict in the Central African Republic intensifies. (New York) – The inclusion of the need to protect civilians with disabilities in wartime in the United Nations secretary-general’s new report should help spur action by UN agencies and member states, Human Rights Watch said today. For the first time in more than a decade, the secretary-general’s 2019 report on the protection…

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