Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in Bangladesh: Gaps and Opportunities
While Bangladesh’s climate-related laws and policies gesture toward inclusion, considerable gaps remain between policy and practice.
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Read more: Educating for Disability and Climate Change Educating for Disability and Climate Change
Educators have the power and responsibility to change practices now so that students benefit from climate change and disability awareness education.
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Read more: Disability Participation and Empowerment in the Context of Climate Action: A Human Rights Obligation Disability Participation and Empowerment in the Context of Climate Action: A Human Rights Obligation
International human rights law offers a framework for coordinated climate action where all members of society have a role to play.
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Read more: Climate Resilience Planning: A Life-Saving Entry Point for Incorporating Disability Voices into Policy Climate Resilience Planning: A Life-Saving Entry Point for Incorporating Disability Voices into Policy
Incorporating disability issues into general resilience planning is not only a life-saving necessity, but also an opportunity for broader inclusion.
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Read more: Examining the Climate Change-Migration Nexus from a Disability Lens Examining the Climate Change-Migration Nexus from a Disability Lens
Growing interest in migration as a form of climate adaptation risks exacerbating existing inequalities and generating new ones for disabled people.
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Read more: Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action
This piece highlights the failure to recognize the knowledges of disabled people as a form of epistemic injustice.
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Read more: Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change
Contribute to a digital symposium on the rights and agency of persons with disabilities in the climate crisis.
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Read more: Call for Abstracts — 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Diagnosing in the Home Call for Abstracts — 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Diagnosing in the Home
Contribute to the 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference and subsequent book project!
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Read more: Call for Abstracts: Looking Forward to a Post-Pandemic Landscape Call for Abstracts: Looking Forward to a Post-Pandemic Landscape
The Petrie-Flom Center and the Solomon Center for Health Law Policy are interested in tracking when crisis settles into the new normal.
