The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that between 10 and 15% of the world's population, or around 1 billion people, live with disabilities, making people with disabilities are the largest minority in the world (WHO 2011, WRC 2008, UN 2012). Among the millions of refugees living in camps there are large numbers of people with disabilities. An estimated 4.5 to 6.8 million of the world's 45.2 million forcibly displaced people also live with disabilities. Among displaced people fleeing civil conflict, war or natural disasters, the number of people with disabilities may be even higher (WRC 2008, UN 2012). Yet people with disabilities remain among the most hidden, overlooked and socially excluded displaced people today. Displaced by conflict and seeking refuge, those living with disabilities experience a triple disadvantage; they are outside their country of origin, deprived of the protections of citizenship, live in fear of persecution, and are hindered by physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments that hinder their full and effective participation in society (Schulze, 2010 and Crook et to 2013). Born out of a global disability rights movement, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) came into force in 2008 and has led to unprecedented support for the rights of people with disabilities around the world which have suffered abandonment. , abuse and discrimination in all forms (Crook et al 2013, Schulze, 2010). The formulation of the CRPD has been hailed as a milestone in the struggle to reframe the needs and concerns of people with disabilities in terms of human rights (Kayess & French 2008). Yet it is not free from criticism. Debate and conjecture... middle of paper... Mirza, Mansha. (2011). Disability and humanitarianism in refugee camps: the case of a supranational itinerant praxis on disability, Third World Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 8, 2011, pp 1527–1536. Schulze, Marianne. (2010). Understanding the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Handbook on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Handicap International 2010, 3rd edition); UNHCR 2012 Global trends: refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, internally displaced persons and stateless persons. Geneva, UNHCRUNHCR Mid-year trends 2013. Geneva, UNHCRUnited Nations Enable- Facsheet on Persons with Disabilities. 2012. Retrieved online from www.un.org/disabilitiesWorld Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, World Disability Report. 2011 WHO Press Commission on Women's Refugees. 2008. Disability among refugee and conflict-affected populations. Geneva, UNHCR