disability justice and inequalities webinar

Uniting for Change.

On 4 March 2026, we hosted a webinar called Uniting for Change: Strengthening Collaboration Between Disability Justice and Inequality Activists.

People with disabilities often face unfair treatment in many areas of life, including jobs, representation, and recognition. These challenges are often linked to other forms of inequality, such as class, race, and gender. However, disability is not always treated as a key issue in wider inequality campaigns.

Even though these challenges are common, many inequality movements do not fully include the voices and experiences of people with disabilities. At the same time, disability groups can find it difficult to link their work with other struggles against inequality.

Disability justice activists and inequality campaigners from Ghana and Kenya worked together on a research project focused on disability justice and reducing inequality.

Hear from some of the speakers.

In the webinar, Disability Justice and Inequality Activists shared their reflections on how to strengthen collaboration.

One hundred and one people joined the webinar from different parts of the world, from South Africa to Guatemala, Australia to Bangladesh, this was a truly global audience covering 28 countries.

“Without collaboration, there is competition and we lose out a lot, from funding opportunities, political opportunities and the opportunities to make our voices heard, so collaboration is the key to the magic button we need to click especially at such a time that funding is shrinking globally.”

Yetneberesh Molla, ADD’s Co-Chair

Francis Asong is the Executive Director, Africa Disability Institute and a research participant in the research project. He shared his reflection in the webinar and this is what he says:

“Stigma remains one of the biggest barriers to collaboration, disability is still associated with spiritual explanations or misfortunes. Within the civil society environment, there are still assumptions to lack of capacity because someone has a disability. For us to strengthen collaboration we must challenge not only obvious discrimination but also unconscious bias within our movements”

“Collaboration will be truly transfromative if those who are working together have a shared understanding of the structure, systems and the things we want to achieve together. The three things I hope will contribute to better collaboration are structure, power and accessibility.”

Dr Danny Sriskandarajah– CEO, New Economics Foundation.