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India: Reforms and disabled people

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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 […]

Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian with down’s syndrome and flee

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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 […]

Summary: country by country attacks on persons with albinism

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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 […]

The Cairo Declaration: noone should be left behind

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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 […]

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