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In conjunction with the RI Centenary Celebrations, Asia and the Pacific Region organized a Contest for its Members to design a greeting card or poster to honor the occasion. A total of 22 designs was submitted from the Region and judged by a panel of five RI senior...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 The Second Annual Disability Pride Parade on 10 July 2016 in New York brought out people of "all abilities" in the words of Victor Calise, the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office for...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Since the UN adoption of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2007 -- a major milestone in the fight for disability rights -- each year stakeholders from around...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Increasingly, disability issues — the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities — are being recognized and integrated into socioeconomic development and humanitarian responses, United...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Last September, the United Nations posed a directive to the world and international NGOs: 13 Sustainable Development Goals to improve life for billions of people. Yesterday, a group of...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 More than 5,000 disabled people rolled, motored and strolled up Broadway from Union Square to Madison Square Park on Sunday for the second annual Disability Pride Parade, one of the...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 In December 2015 a group of women in the village of Chancho, Ethiopia visited the local clinic to give the nurses a much-needed hand. They changed sheets and tidied up the ten bed-ridden...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 On 11 September, RI Secretary General Venus Ilagan was honored to attend a working dinner at the home of Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Korea to the United Nations Oh Joon,...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 RI Secretary General Venus Ilagan attended the 65th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference at United Nations Headquarters in New York, which took place 27-29 August. A record 4000 people representing 902...
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