Disabilities
- Thu Aug 22 2002
Handicapped to Show the Way for Blood Donation
This article describes how the Ahmedabad Red Cross Handicapped Blood Donors' Club provides vital donations and raises self-esteem of donors.
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Disabilities
- Wed Aug 14 2002
Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons
The Asian and Pacific region has by far the largest number of people with disabilities in the world. Most of them are poor, their concerns unknown and their rights overlooked.
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Disabilities
- Fri Aug 09 2002
Zambia: People with disabilities call for tax rebates, exemptions
At a recent conference organised by the Lusaka-based Disabled Initiatives Foundation, participants called for a number of tax incentives to help the disabled and those who cater for them.
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Disabilities
- Wed Jul 24 2002
Gaining Access to the Policy Agenda on Development Cooperation
Exclusion. Powerlessness. Poverty. That is the fate of the great majority of people with a disability in most countries we have labeled as developmental areas or countries in transit.
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Health
/Education
/Infancy and adolescence
/Disabilities
- Tue May 28 2002
Education of Children with Mental Handicap In Mozambique
In Mozambique there are no statistics concerning the number of children with mental handicap as there are for the other categories of disabilities. However, to talk about mental disability in Mozambique, continues to be a very complicated question , since the majority of society continues to see this issue as myth and taboo, which nobody is supposed to talk about.
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Disabilities
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Fri May 17 2002
Empowering Blind Persons through ICT in India
The IT Industry can employ visually impaired persons in various functional responsibilities involving administration, front office, telephone operators, legal as well as medical transcriptionists, e-servicing as well as client servicing. With appropriate training, those who are visually impaired can be employed at senior levels.
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Disabilities
- Wed May 15 2002
Thoughts on the elaboration of a disability convention
When the 1987 expert meeting recommended the elaboration of a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, the main reason was the growing frustration arising from the insight that the momentum and guidance, created by the International Year of Disabled Persons and the World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons, would not be sufficient to bring about the intended change in disability policy and development.
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Disabilities
- Tue Feb 05 2002
Background note on the Pan African Conference in Addis Ababa, Feb 2002
The African Decade of Disabled Persons (2000-2009) is the result of a recommendation by the Labour and Social Affairs Commission of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), made during its 22nd Session in April 1999 in Windhoek, Namibia, and adopted by the OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government, meeting in July 1999 in Algiers, Algeria. A formal Declaration of the Decade was subsequently made during a meeting in July 2000 of OAU Heads of State and Government, in Lome, Togo.
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Disabilities
- Mon Feb 04 2002
The Invisible Minority: India’s 60 Million Disabled Citizens
According to conservative estimates, approximately 6% of India’s population is disabled. And if we go by what the U.N. officials or various other experts say, the figure could very well be in double digits. After all, Australia does admit officially that 18% of their population is affected by one form of disability or the other. United Kingdom’s disabled population is estimated at 14.2%, whereas in the United States, it is 9%.
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