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Nothing about us without us: the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Monday, March 31st, 2008

There are 650 million people with disabilities in the world; four-fifths of them live in the developing world. While much has been done in the developed world to improve the lot of people with disabilities and to bring us closer to equality, we are not there yet; things are that much worse in the developing [...]