ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on primary information from the field and from the national consultation workshop with indigenous people with disabilities and their organizations to prepare the 2017/18 report for the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It analyzes secondary sources that have been produced as an outcome of indigenous disability advocacy in Nepal. Indigenous people with disabilities are caught globally between the intersections of disability and indigeneity and face multilayered discrimination, being indigenous first, having a disability second and being indigenous with a disability third. Most indigenous people with disabilities are deprived of basic services like education, health, employment, an adequate standard of living and social services, and most indigenous people with disabilities do not know about their rights and how to claim their rights. There are still challenges to acceptance and inclusion of indigenous people with disabilities, hearing their voices and supporting their effective, meaningful participation.
