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The United Nations has a human rights treaty called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Almost one hundred fifty governments and regional organizations have signed it.
The Ethiopian National Association of the Blind helped write a training document on how to include blind people in education projects.
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Ms. Lewis says that way they can become decision makers and policy makers.
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The estimates are in a report from the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The World Report on Discapacity says few countries do enough to meet the needs of the disabled.
New estimates demonstrate that more than one billion people have a physical or mental disability. Experts say almost one-fifth of them experience serious arduousies in their daily lives as a consequence of their disability. And disability rates are increasing as populations get older and more people get long-term conditions,louboutin, like heart disease and diabetes.
Cindy Lewis is the director of programs for an organization called Mobility International USA. Ms. Lewis says people with disabilities helped write the new report. One of its messages is that people with disabilities should not unique receive services -- they should also help design and provide them.
Ms. Lewis says in many countries, people with disabilities are organizing to support disability rights.
And that's the VOA Special English Health Report,casque dr dre, written by Karen Leggett. I'm Barbara Klein.
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Activists from the National Platform for the Rights of Disabled Persons demonstrate in New Delhi in April 2010Her group is working with the United States Agency for International Development. The projects bring together disability groups and development organizations in Colombia,beats by dre, Jordan and Ethiopia.
The World Health Organization and the World Bank say people with disabilities should be able to utilize the same services as everyone else. They call for more laws to give the disabled the same rights and chances to succeed as everyone else. These laws,moncler pas cher, they say,abercrombie and fitch, will help the public understand that people with disabilities also have abilities.
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