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By Wang Yanfang Intro: “We Sing for You,” a song written by Zhang Haidi, president of Rehabilitation International (RI) and chairperson of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF), to honor RI’s 100th anniversary, was performed by singers with China Disabled...
Paralympics Preview View this email in your browser August 2016 Newsletter: Countdown to the Paralympics -- Showcasing the Superhumans A scene from Channel 4's Paralympic advert, "We're the Superhumans" The Olympics started before the eyes of the world in Rio on 5...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 During a trip to promote UN-China relations, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke at China’s Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
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...
View this email in your browser July 2016 Newsletter: Pride in Persons of "All Abilities" Cha In-Hong, known as the ‘Maestro in a Wheelchair’ plays Jules Massenet’s ‘Meditation from Thais’ at the 'Beautiful Concert in Celebration of the CRPD' during CoSP9. The Annual...
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 As the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the CRPD wound down at the UN, RI Global stepped up its action with an eye to keeping Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) on the agenda of several...
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...
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