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Global Forum on Disability, Migration and Forced Displacement

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To understand where we need to go, it helps to understand how we got here.

Session 1 traces the laws and decisions that shaped disability, migration and displacement - and the barriers they still create.

Moderated by Catalina Devandas Aguilar.

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Disability isn't only something a person brings into the migration journey. Sometimes the journey creates it through violence, detention, interrupted care, and uncertainty.

A reality migration systems rarely account for.

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Four networks. Three regions. One agenda.

GNRD · KDF · DMN · DAMN are convening the first Global Forum on Disability, Migration and Forced Displacement — led by persons with disabilities, shaped by lived experience.

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304M migrants. 1.3B people with disabilities. At least 62M are both — and missing from the data and policies meant to serve them.

Global Forum on Disability, Migration & Forced Displacement

23–24 Sept 2026 · Online · Free · Accessible

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For the first time, persons with disabilities and their organizations are leading a global conversation on disability, labour migration and forced displacement.

23–24 Sept 2026. Online, free, fully accessible.

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