Whois & Analysis for sightsavers.org

Sightsavers is an international non-governmental organisation that works with partners in developing countries to treat and prevent avoidable blindness, and promote equality for people with visual impairments and other disabilities.

It is based in Haywards Heath in the United Kingdom, with branches in Sweden, Norway, India, Italy, Republic of Ireland, the United Arab Emirates, and the USA.

The disability rights movement is a global movement to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities.

Disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these.

It substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

Some also include those who have a decreased ability to see because they do not have access to glasses or contact lenses.

Visual impairment is often defined as a best corrected visual acuity of worse than either 20/40 or 20/60.

The term blindness is used for complete or nearly complete vision loss.

Visual impairment may cause people difficulties with normal daily activities such as driving, reading, socializing, and walking.

Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions.

Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research or conducting exit poll or the filing of an amicus brief.

Lobbying (often by lobby groups) is a form of advocacy where a direct approach is made to legislators on an issue which plays a significant role in modern politics.

Research has started to address how advocacy groups in the United States and Canada are using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action.