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In June 1972, the United Nations held the Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, during which the environment was addressed for the first time as a major issue. The conference led to [...]

As the Advocacy Coordinator at EU-CORD, I constantly learn and discover how thematically rich our members’ programmes are. Currently, I am working on a new education initiative that seeks to [...]

The second Communications and Advocacy Newsletter of 2022 is now available on our website. The thematic focus is quality education, which is currently the topic of a network-wide flagship [...]

At the end of March, members of the Advocacy Hub came together in Brussels for the first Advocacy Forum of 2022. This occasion was the first time the Forum was held simultaneously with the [...]

Ruth Faber, EU-CORD CEO The war in Ukraine brings the sorrow of conflict already experienced in many parts of the world to Europe’s doorstep. EU-CORD members have mobilised to provide [...]

The Global Disability Summit (GDS) was held online on 16 and 17 February 2022 and was co-hosted by the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the governments of Norway and Ghana. In [...]

The first Communications and Advocacy Newsletter of 2022 is now available on our website. The thematic focus is Disability Inclusion, which is one of EU-CORD’s cross-cutting themes. We start with [...]

With the 2nd Global Disability Summit taking place in mid-February, my thoughts turn to the subject of commitments. Commitments are inevitably a feature in this line of work. As we did in 2018 [...]

The Omicron variant is a sad reminder that global health solidarity has not succeeded. It’s time for the EU to support a temporary suspension of COVID-19 vaccine patents. The new variant reveals [...]

I grew up in Zambia’s mining hub- in a province called the Copperbelt, aptly named because of its mass deposits of copper. I was accustomed to seeing grey smoke churning from the furnaces into [...]