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This Facilitator’s Guide on Strengthening Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Forced Displacement is designed to support UNHCR staff, partners and other stakeholders at the field level to: ...

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The man was found malnourished and covered in feces, police said. Getty Images/iStock photo A man with intellectual disabilities was forced by his caretaker to live in a hut in the backyard of a ...

The World Health Organization estimates that around 15 per cent of the world’s population has a disability. Several million are thought to be displaced but often remain invisible within uprooted ...