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100th anniversary is a remarkable milestone for RI that grew from its small-town roots in the American Midwest in 1922 to an internationally prominent organization in the past century. Generations of successors of RI members have been making...
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RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Rehabilitation International participated very actively in the 2015 Annual Conference of States Parties (CoSP8) on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) held...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 RI President Jan Monsbakken and Secretary General Venus Ilagan met with Ms. Akiko Ito, Chief of the Secretariat for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), to...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Civil Society Global Forum Realising an Inclusive Post-2015 Development Agenda Monday 8 June 2015, 10am– 6pm United Nations Headquarters, New York Conference Room 4 Watch via webcast:...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 On 25 April 2015 at 11:41 local time, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, with an epicenter 8.1 km northwest of the country’s capital, Kathmandu. During and in the aftermath of this horrific...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 On 12 March, during the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), Rehabilitation International (RI) will hold a parallel event entitled “Women with Disabilities: 20...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Today, 3 December, marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The theme of this year's commemoration is "Disability-inclusive Sustainable Development: The Promise of Technology",...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 In mid-November, RI President Jan Monsbakken traveled to Beijing, China to discuss accessibility issues related to development in the Asia-Pacific Region at an event coinciding with the 22nd...
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Rehabilitation International has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korean Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (KSRPD) for the Global IT Challenge for Youth with...
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