Development for All

Speaker:Rosemary McKayOrganization:Department of Foreign

Affairs and TradeCountry: Australia

Through its aid program Australia is supporting:• more accessible schools, law and justice and water and

sanitation• over 40 scholars with disability to study in Australia• the Disability Rights Fund and Pacific Disability Forum

who assist around 120 Disabled Persons Organisations annually to advocate for their rights

• more than 150,000 people with disability in Asia, Africa and the Pacific to receive services related to their disability in 2012

• the work of the United Nations Children‘s Fund, the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross to be more disability-inclusive.

Photo: Taken by DFAT, PNG

Photo: Taken by Broja Gopal/ CDD/

Photo taken by Australian Disability and Development Consortium: International Day of People with Disability was celebrated at Parliament House on 3 December 2013.

Photo: Taken by DFAT, Banten Indonesia