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Poverty, migration and disability in India: from challenges to change

6th October 2016 by Global Disability Watch

People with visual impairment crossing the railway track in India

By Shikha Gupta & Atul Jaiswal Globally, approximately 285 million people of the world’s population live with visual impairment, out of which 39 million are blind. In India, there are around 62 million people with visual impairment, of who which 8 million are blind and 54 million with low vision. India is home to the world’s […]

Filed Under: Asia, Write Inside Tagged With: India, Migration, Poverty, Vangani train station

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

Disability and rehabilitation barriers in the North-East of India

16th March 2016 by Sunil Deepak

Three women holding their children

She was a young mother, holding her tiny baby girl close to her. ‘What is the problem with the baby’, I asked. Without saying a word she lifted the clothes from the baby’s back, showing a red mass protruding from the base of the spine. ‘How old is the baby?’ I asked. ‘Four months’ she […]

Filed Under: Asia, Field Pulse Tagged With: India, Rehabilitation

Students attempt suicide at school for the blind in India

6th March 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Students with visual impairments who attempted suicide. Source: The Hindu

The Hindu reported how up to 12 students with visual impairments at the Shivasharana Haralaiah Residential School for Blind in India attempted suicide following alleged harassment by the school chairman Ashok Dodmani. The students claimed they had been beaten with sticks and repeatedly abused verbally by Dodmani, a bling man himself for four years: “We […]

Filed Under: Asia, News Tagged With: Blind, India, Suicide, Visual Impairment. School for the Blind

I had no idea how much society discriminates against the disabled until I lost my sight

26th February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Published in Youth Ki Awaaz by Kapil Kumar Feb 24 2016- Go to Original Source Disability is something which can happen to anyone and at any time. It is acquired not always by birth and can happen also by accidents in the course of one’s life. In that case, the term “temporarily able bodied” used to denote […]

Filed Under: Asia, News Tagged With: Asia, Education, India, visual impairment

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