{"id":8249,"date":"2025-09-17T12:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:46:44","slug":"fridays-iwdp-theme-recognition-of-national-sign-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/2025\/09\/17\/fridays-iwdp-theme-recognition-of-national-sign-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 26th Sept.: Recognition of National Sign Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8249\" class=\"elementor elementor-8249\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-702d0118 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"702d0118\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7d6bf627\" data-id=\"7d6bf627\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e704341 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e704341\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8420 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Recognition-of-National-Sign-language-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Recognition-of-National-Sign-language-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Recognition-of-National-Sign-language-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Recognition-of-National-Sign-language.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p><p>In Uganda, deaf people face high risks during disasters and health emergencies when information isn\u2019t accessible in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL). COVID-19 and floods showed how vital interpreters are, yet services remain patchy.<\/p><p>The Uganda National Association of the Deaf (UNAD) continues to push for deaf inclusion in crisis planning, interpreter services, and visual alerts. Uganda has ratified the UNCRPD, obliging it to protect persons with disabilities in emergencies.<\/p><p>Deaf rights in crises are human rights\u2014and inclusion must be built into every response.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has called on the government to increase investment in social protection, economic empowerment, and educational programs that directly support Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}