Human Rights

Human Rights Program

DFN is educating grantmakers to help them understand the crucial importance of taking disability explicitly into account when funding international human rights programs.

Tools: DFN has developed publications that demonstrate to grantmakers the significant interrelationships between disability and issues of general interest to “nondisability” funders. DFN’s purpose is to encourage human rights funders to be more inclusive of people with disabilities.

Find out more …

• Beyond health and charity: A human rights approach to disability funding
  • Power Point – GPDD
• Human Rights and Disability: Embracing a paradigm shift
  • MS Word (select Read Only) – A Funder Opportunity
    PDF – A Funder Opportunity
  • MS Word (select Read Only) – An NGO Opportunity
    PDF – An NGO Opportunity
• Human Rights and Supported Decision-making
  • Power point – Norway Presentation