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CBM is working to provide emergency support to people with disabilities in the Philippines after Typhoon Nock-ten destroyed homes, infrastructure and farm land.

Ten years ago today the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted at the UN. A decade after this groundbreaking international agreement, we celebrate progress but also look forward to what still needs to be done.

This year, CBM is celebrating 50 years since its first sight-saving cataract operation. In 1966 New Zealand physician Dr.Howard Harper carried out the first CBM supported cataract surgery at the Noor Eye Hospital in Kabul…

CBM has co-authored a new paper showing that excluding people from disabilities from international development activities is not only unfair, it also represents poor value for money…

On the 30th November, as part of International Day for People with Disabilities, CBM ran a workshop for humanitarian agencies to show how people with disabilities can be included in disaster response…

CBM is proud to have won an International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases Water Award for outstanding innovation in improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to tackle the blinding eye infection trachoma in Ethiopia.

Last week, the 10th General Assembly of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) in Durban, South Africa brought together global experts in eye health, eye health institutions, NGOs, networks and governments…

A new report launched at the United Nations this week finds that millions of disabled children are being left out of school because too little money is being budgeted for their needs.

As Haiti struggles to cope with the mass destruction of Hurricane Matthew, CBM’s partners are warning that people with disabilities are among those most affected, with half of disabled people in the South lacking basic resources.