CDPF Report on Global Disability Summit 3 Berlin 1st to 3rd April 2025. The Summit was sponsored and organised by the German and Jordanian Government, with the International Disability Alliance (IDA). There was a Civil Society Forum on the 1st…
Message to Global Disability Summit Berlin
CDPF Support the Amman-Berlin Declaration on Global Disability Inclusion. To make this declaration more than fine words, several things need to occur in the Disability World. Firstly, recent cutbacks in international aid from USAID following the election of President Trump…
Messages from Stephanie and Zekwande
Self advocates who are non verbal from Southern Africa deserve respect and our attention as we prepare for Disability Global Summit 3 in Berlin from 1st to 3rd April 2025.
Commonwealth Day message
From CDPF General Secretary Richard Rieser
The Path to Disability Inclusion across the Commonwealth
Since CHOGM 2022, CDPF, which represents 100 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) or Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs) in 50 Commonwealth countries, has been campaigning to improve the position of the 430 million disabled people who dwell in the Commonwealth.…
Statement from the Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum (CDPF) Women’s Forum on the Commission on the Status of Women 2025
As women and girls with disabilities continue to face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, their voices must be central in shaping global gender policies and commitments. On behalf of the Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum(CDPF) as brought to our attention…
Resolution on President Trump’s Freeze on Public Expenditure including USAID
This Special General Meeting of the Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum calls on the US President to withdraw a highly damaging policy to disabled people in USA and world wide, which is likely to end decades of progress of advancing the…
CDPF Roundtable marking International Disabled People’s Day 2024
Urgent Call for Public Enquiry into Police Brutality against Disabled Protester Hamza Waziri
To whom it may concern, The Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum (CDPF) is writing to express its deep concern and condemnation of the alleged assault on Hamza Waziri, former chairman of Persons with Disabilities in Bauchi State, by the Nigeria Police…
Empowering Change Webinar
CDPF Commonwealth Disabled Youth Forum presents the Empowering Change Webinar: Shifting the Paradigm on Disability. Day 1: 11 September 2024, 1–3pm BST Day 2: 12 September 2024, 8–10pm BST Participants:Kihembo Wilbert, Youth Coordinator CCDYFRichard Rieser, General Secretary CDPFNamwanje Gorret, Program…