Videos

In 2017, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) through its Kenya Electoral Assistance Program (KEAP), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), collected interviews from participants of its upcoming election access observation in Nairobi. The election access observation is designed to train disability rights advocates to collect ...

In 2017, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) through its Kenya Electoral Assistance Program (KEAP), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), collected interviews from participants of its upcoming election access observation in Nairobi. The election access observation is designed to train disability rights advocates to collect ...

In 2017, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), with the support of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Kyiv, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Global Affairs Canada produced a video on the right of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to vote. This video mainstreams disability by ...

In 2016, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), in collaboration with the National Human Rights Council in Morocco and supported by the United States Agency for Intrnational Development (USAID), produced a video in Moroccan Sign Language (MSL) of election-related vocabulary. The lexicon, developed by experts and Deaf communities in ...

The Ruderman Foundation released this video in 2016 to accompany a recently published "White Paper on Voting Accessibility for People with Disabilities" in the United States. A transcript follows.   --Transcript Begins--   VOICEOVER: This election, if you are an American citizen, you can vote privately and independently. Unless… You ...

In 2015, Fundaciόn Saraki, an organization in Paraguay that promotes the right of persons wtih disabilities to participate in elections, produced a series of videos with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This video explains how to assist voters with different types of disabilities through the ...

In 2015, Justicia Electoral Paraguay produced a series of videos to inform Deaf voters of voting procedures. This video is available to poll workers on Election Day to help them explain the process to Deaf voters. A transcript of the video is available below.   Transcript   Voting Procedure   Step ...

In 2015, the Tribunal Suprema de Justicia Electoral (TSJE) produced a series of videos to facilitate access of persons with disabilities to the election. The spot featured here notes accessible voting options. The transcript begins below.   Transcript   (music plays)   Voiceover: Accessible voting facilitates the exercise of active ...

In advance of local elections in 2016 in the United Kingdom, Mencap created an introductory video for friends or family members on how to provide appropriate support for voters with learning disabilities.    Transcript   Narrator (woman): It’s election time and it’s all everyone’s talking about. You might have decided who ...

In July 2012, the United Nations produced and aired a short video about election observers with disabilities working in the capital of Dili and elsewhere to monitor the elections and how accessible they were for persons with disabilities.    Transcript   Narrator (woman): It’s parliamentary Election Day in Timor-Leste. Joel ...

A civic education video was produced by the National Election Commission (CNE) in 2012 to support elections in Timor-Leste. It shows the scenery of the island nation and includes different citizens speaking up in support of voting, including a man using a wheelchair.    Transcript   (singing and speaking in ...

This video for the 2011 Guatemalan general elections reminds voters with disabilities that nothing impedes them from casting their ballot and guiding their country's future as the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE), Guatemala's electoral commission, implemented unprecedented measures to ensure access for all citizens.   Man: I don’t see the road, ...

Ensuring all citizens have access to the electoral process is a cornerstone of a vibrant democracy. With this in mind, many countries have ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; however, some continue to struggle with its implementation. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) works ...

To support voters with disabilities for the 2014 presidential elections, the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia created a 15-minute educational film explaining how to vote and how results are calculated to determine who wins a seat in Parliament and as the President of Tunisia.    Transcript   (voiceover in ...

Jacqueline Mutere is a Kenyan disability rights advocate who participated in a training in January 2016, in the city of Nairobi. The training was developed through the RightsNow!: Strong Communities through Enforcing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities project by members of the RightsNow! consortium, including Mobility International USA (MIUSA), the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), the U.S. ...

Habel Ouma is a Kenyan disability rights advocate who participated in a training in January 2016, in the city of Nairobi. The training was developed through the RightsNow!: Strong Communities through Enforcing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities project by members of the RightsNow! consortium, including Mobility International USA (MIUSA), the Disability Rights Education and ...

In 2016, Icelandic Member of Parliament Freyja Haraldsdóttir spoke on a panel to celebrate the one hundred year anniversary of women's suffrage in Iceland and to discuss better methods for engaging women in political life. The transcript of her speech begins below.   Transcript   Panelist: Welcome Freyja Haraldsdóttir to the ...

Elections Saskatchewan developed this video to train poll workers on how best to assist voters with disabilities on Election Day. The video explains the different poll workers who contribute to running the polling station and provides practical guidance on providing assistance to voters with who have Deaf or hard-of-hearing, who ...