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Ford BUILD Fuels WEI’s Resilient Future

After more than a decade of growth and impact, WEI is turning some of our attention inward to strengthen our organizational resilience. A coveted BUILD grant from the Ford Foundation is enabling us to plan for the long term and take critical steps to ensure our future as a leader of the global disabled feminist […]

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Advocates Assert Rights Before Treaty Bodies

Nothing is more powerful than advocates raising their own voices and sharing the realities of their lived experiences to hold leaders accountable for upholding human rights. WEI deploys our substantive and logistical experience with international human rights advocacy to support our partners’ travel to and engagement with human rights bodies in Geneva. UN treaty bodies […]

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A Crucial Perspective on Abortion Rights in Texas

Abortion bans in the U.S. have devastating consequences- especially for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities. Amanda Spriggs Reid, WEI’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Sponsored by Anonymous led the effort to bring our perspective to litigation in the Zurawski v. State of Texas case. WEI recently contributed an amicus brief to bring a disability lens […]

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