USICD Poster Contest

USICD Poster Contest

USICD invites you to showcase your artistic talent and commitment to disability rights and inclusion by participating in the inaugural Poster Contest. This poster contest helps us to raise awareness about international disability rights issues.

The winner will receive $300.00, a USICD swag bag filled with USICD merchandise and their poster featured during the annual USICD Gala to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and other 2018-2019 events. Click the below links to read the contest details and print the release form that must accompany your submitted artwork. 

USICD Poster Contest Details

Poster Contest Release Form

Raising a Child with a Disability in Mozambique

Carlos Quembo

USICD is hosting IREX Community Solutions Fellow, Carlos Quembo, for the next few months. Quembo is from Mozambique and has a son, Ntsolo, who has cerebral palsy. Please take a moment to read his first USICD blog post!

AmazonSmile - A No Cost Way to Donate to USICD

 Amazon Smile back-to-school banner

You can contribute to USICD at no cost to you! USICD is a registered organization with the AmazonSmile program. That means, if you sign up to participate in the AmazonSmile program, .05% of all eligible purchase amounts will go to USICD. If you spend $500 per year, USICD will receive $25; if you spend $1,000, USICD gets $50. Just think how that could be multiplied if you get all your family members and friends to do the same. Every donation, no matter how small, takes us one step closer to realizing our vision. 

It's easy to do! Visit AmazonSmile and on your first visit select the "United States International Council on Disabilities" as the charitable organization you want to receive your donations before you begin shopping. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make at smile.amazon.com will result in a donation to USICD. Tens of millions of products are eligible for donations and such eligibility is noted with the product's information with the simple message: Eligible for "AmazonSmile" donation.
Bookmark smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and shop at AmazonSmile. There are no differences in prices or products if you shop through smile.amazon.com except that a percentage of the money you spend goes to USICD. 

Please take a few minutes to take this simple action if you shop on Amazon and encourage others to do the same. 

Thank you so much. 

USICD Resource Committee

USICD Releases White Paper on Monitoring CRPD Article 32

Billions of dollars are invested every year in projects meant to fight poverty, provide quality education services for students, improve access to healthcare services, and more. Unfortunately, too many of these projects leave behind people with disabilities. Both governments and civil society, including disabled persons organizations (DPOs), can play a role in holding bilateral and multilateral international development agencies accountable for disability inclusion in their projects. A White Paper released by the United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) in June 2018, Stakeholders’ Understanding and Monitoring of the Implementation of CRPD Article 32, makes recommendations on how.

Article 32 of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)—the international human rights treaty on persons with disabilities—requires that international cooperation activities be disability inclusive. 

USICD Issues Press Release on Family Separation

24 June, 2018

The United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) issued a press release that opposes the Trump administration policies that forcibly remove children and adults from immigrant parents or other family members and places them in detention camps around the United States. USICD demands the administration stop this inhumane, cruel, and abusive practice immediately. We also demand that the Department of Homeland Security carry out its responsibilities to adults and children with disabilities under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and provide State Protection and Advocacy systems with immediate access to all detention centers for immigrant children and adults. Click here to read the full press release. 

USICD Releases White Paper on International Development Disability Policy & Practice

Bilateral and multilateral agencies are powerful stakeholders in the international development field. They are responsible for driving projects that do everything from improving education and health outcomes in developing countries, to strengthening public participation in democratic processes, to boosting gender equality in employment. Although some of these projects include persons with disabilities among their beneficiaries, others exclude them. And often their exclusion begins in the policies meant to guide staff at international development agencies on how they should carry out their activities.

A newly released White Paper from the United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD), International Development: Disability Policy & Practice reviews and assesses disability inclusion in the policies of selected bilateral and multilateral agencies.