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Hunan hosts inaugural wheelchair marathon

102 participants take part in the inaugural wheelchair marathon hosted by Central China's Hunan province on Thursday in Wulingyuan, a World Natural Heritage site in Zhangjiajie. They propelled their manual wheelchairs along a 5-kilometer route. [Xinhua] 102...

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RI Global Newsletter, February 2019

  UN Women held the Multi-Stakeholder Forum in the preparations for the CSW63 The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will be held from 11 to 22 March 2019 in New York, under its priority theme “Social protection systems, access to...

RI Global Newsletter, January 2019

The 57th Session of the Commission for Social Development (CScocD57) takes place in February The fifty-seventh session of the Commission for Social Development (CScoD 57) will take place from 11 to 21 February at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The...

Dylan Alcott aces Australia Day

An emotional Dylan Alcott claimed the Australian Open quad wheelchair title for a fifth straight year, crowned champion in front of a huge home crowd in Melbourne on Australia Day. Alcott downed US rival David Wagner 6-4, 7-6(2) in a see-sawing final on Rod Laver...

Alpine Worlds 2019: Ski wax maestros

Down on the concrete slabs of the underground parking of a hotel packed with Para alpine skiers, burly men in aprons are hard at work with the smell of melted wax lingering in the air and drilling noises cutting through the pounding rhythms of a boombox. As the...

Alpine Worlds 2019: The perfect tribute

It was a moment for the family photo album - Canadian Para alpine skier Frederique Turgeon slumped on one knee at the finish line of her first World Championships, exhausted and emotional, as she realised the enormity of what she had just achieved. A month ago, Ronald...

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