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Dalits with disabilities hit hardest by lockdown in Nepal (Part 2)
If the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic affects most of the world’s population, all do not benefit from prevention and healthcare services the same way. On the contrary, the health crisis tends to worsen the situation of minorities by worsening existing forms of segregation and social inequalities. And those who cumulate factors of exclusion are hit the hardest. Krishna Gahatraj,…
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Dalits with disabilities hit hardest by lockdown in Nepal (Part 1)
By Krishna Gahatraj – Secretary of National Association of the Physical Disabled-Nepal Globally, it is estimated that there are more than one billion people living with some form of disability, or 15 per cent of total the world’s population. 80 per cent of them live in developing and underdeveloped countries. Over the last few months,…