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India: Reforms and disabled people

4th August 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Javed Abidi. Photo: Special Arrangement

Published by The Hindu Author: Javed Abidi Date: August 4, 2016 Go to Original Source The history of codification of the rights of the disabled coincides with the era of reforms. Any assessment of the economic reforms of the past 25 years could well do with some understanding of their impact on people with disabilities in […]

Filed Under: Asia, News Tagged With: India, Reforms, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian with down’s syndrome and flee

8th July 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Arif Jaradat.Tomer Appelbaum (reproduction)

Online paper Haretz claims that Arif Jaradat, 23, a man with down’s syndrome was recently shot by Israeli troops. Jaradat, a man described as one ‘loved by all the children in his village’ died of his injuries last week. GDW has no means of confirming the story. Below is the original story. Go to Original […]

Filed Under: Middle East, News Tagged With: Downs Syndrome, Israeli Forces, Palestine

Summary: country by country attacks on persons with albinism

26th June 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Compiled by: Under the Same Sun Malawi March 2016: a 20 year old man with albinism by the name of Namphiri Lang’awa was brutally murdered in Sub Traditional Authority Ndakwela in the district, Malawi.  According to police authorities, suspected albino killer businessman Bashir Henery Goba and his gang of assailants who hunt and kill people with albinism […]

Filed Under: Africa, News Tagged With: Africa, albiism, attacks

The Cairo Declaration: noone should be left behind

2nd April 2016 by Global Disability Watch

We, people with disabilities and disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) representing 57 countries from around the world, have participated in the international conference titled United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – “No one left behind” organized by the Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities (AOPD) in partnership with Disabled People’s International (DPI) to host it’s 9th World […]

Filed Under: Middle East, News Tagged With: Cairo Declaration, DPI

Israeli forces detain Gaza patient at Erez crossing

30th March 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Published by Ma’an News Agency Go to Original Source GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Tuesday detained a Palestinian man at the Erez crossing as he was attempting to leave the blockaded Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in the occupied West Bank, his family said. Relatives of Muhammad Kamel Rajab Abu Odeh, 34, said […]

Filed Under: Middle East, News Tagged With: Gaza, Palestine

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