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Guidelines: Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, 2019

07/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Published: 7/2019. These guidelines set out essential actions that humanitarian actors must take in order to effectively identify and respond to the needs and rights of persons with disabilities who are most at risk of being left behind in humanitarian settings. In this 110-page document, the recommended actions in each chapter place persons with disabilities at the center of humanitarian action, both as actors and as members of affected populations. (PDF)