Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion

10:00 am

Photo of Seán CroweSeán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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On CBM's work in co-ordination with the UN Refugee Agency, does it work with refugees with disabilities in refugee camps?

The scale of the problem of disability is huge. We are talking about 1 billion people with disabilities, 80% of whom live in developing countries in areas of high risk. Does CBM work in areas like that? Many of those people fleeing from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have disabilities. Is CBM working with them?