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Background
Persons with disabilities’ mortality rate can be two to four times higher than the rest of society when facing a disaster situation. They are disproportionately impacted and most at risk in crisis-affected communities.…
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Some one billion people around the world live with some form of disability. In every disaster, a disproportionate number of persons with disabilities suffer and die. Local disaster prevention measures are regularly designed and implemented without including persons with disabilit…
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Background
The impacts of climate change – from rapid-onset disasters such as typhoons and wildfires to more gradual changes such as droughts, temperature increase, and sea-level rise – have disproportionate effects on the lives, well-being, and livelihoods of persons with disabilities all over the world. The failure to include persons…