There is an urgent need to mainstream disability in MDGs. Disability must be taken into consideration by policy makers and technical experts when programming, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the current and all future MDG programs.
The European Community has just ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Unprecedented step forward for the first human rights treaty ratified in the history of Europe and a great signal sent to all EU Members States. It is the first major Human Rights treaty of the 21st century and the fastest to have been ratified…
At least one in five of the world’s poorest people are disabled but there is as yet no widespread acceptance or push to ensure that 20% of the poorest recipients of aid programmes are disabled. Disabled people are so severely excluded from all areas of society…
A TV commercial featuring the late Professor Fred Hollows, first run as a clip on YouTube, has been named the world’s best not-for-profit TV advertisement for 2009.
Monday, November 30, 2009
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