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