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A study from Sweden casts doubt on the long-assumed superiority of interdisciplinary treatment (IDT) for chronic pain patients receiving partial disability pensions. Despite IDT’s prominence in national healthcare strategies, researchers found no significant...
Founded in 1922, Rehabilitation International (RI) is an international NGO that is dedicated to advancing the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities, with member organizations covering more than 100 countries and regions. It enjoys special consultative...
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 61/106 of 13 December 2006. It came into force on 3 May 2008 upon the 20th ratification. Article 40 of the Convention stipulates that “The States...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Huang Yueqin, Chair of Commission of Health and Function of Rehabilitation International and vice chair of China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) recently attended a WHO meeting to help...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 For the 2030 Agenda to live up to its promise, persons with disabilities – as both beneficiaries and agents of change – and their representative organizations must work as a team to remove all...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 10th Annual CoSP demands inclusion of PwDs in their own futures The largest and most diverse international disability meeting in the world took place at the United Nations in New York from...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Since 1992, the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) has been celebrated annually on 3 December around the world. The theme for this year’s International Day...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 On 22 November, Zhang Haidi kicked-off the 25th Global ICT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities (GITC), a capacity-building project that helps youth with disabilities in the Asia-Pacific...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Each year, the Rehabilitation International General Assembly meets to report on the work achieved and the road ahead. In 2016, the GA meeting coincided with the 23rd Annual World Congress, put...
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