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Walking Together with People with Disabilities: Serving Justice, Peace and Inclusion |
Institute on Disability
19 – 22 November 2018, Nagpur
The Indian Disability Ecumenical Accompaniment of the National Council of Churches in India in partnership with the World Council of Churches –... |
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06/Dec/2018 |
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There are no barriers for disabled people, says Boniface Prabhu, a quadriplegic wheelchair tennis champion |
Disabled, differently abled, specially abled – these are the words that Harry Boniface Prabhu, a quadriplegic wheelchair tennis champion for India, smiles at.
“True disability is in person’s mind.... |
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05/Dec/2018 |
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Women with disabilities are more vulnerable’ |
Kolkata NGO compiles 35 cases of sexual assault
More than 100 differently-abled women and girls have raised allegations of sexual harassment in West Bengal alone since 2012, a city-based NGO working... |
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05/Dec/2018 |
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Smart inclusion’ for people with disability |
NGOS, people with disability discuss ways of inclusion
Mumbai: Diversity is a concept that is gaining ground the world over, but organisations need to look beyond it to inclusion, and even ‘smart... |
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05/Dec/2018 |
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Purple Tuesday: 'Shopping with a disability can be humiliating' |
Going shopping makes Mike Adams feel “very disabled”. He says: “I can go into a shop and be made to feel invisible. There’s an apprehension. Staff are unsure of engaging with me so they swerve the... |
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04/Dec/2018 |
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17 Easy Ways To Make A Blind Person’s Day |
17 Easy Ways To Make A Blind Person’s Day
1. When introducing yourself, use loud, exaggerated speech. Since we’re blind, it’s safe to assume we’re a little dim, too.
2. Don’t speak directly to us. It... |
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04/Dec/2018 |
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Disability is not the defining feature |
Characters with disabilities in Hindi cinema have come a long way from objects to be pitied or laughed at
I loved the trailer of the movie Zero. It’s a Shah Rukh Khan movie that also features Anushka... |
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04/Dec/2018 |
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Students step into shoes of special children to bat for inclusive education |
Amritsar, December 3
In order to make its students understand the meaning of disability, a city-based school, Spring Dale Senior School, is observing World Disability Week, which commenced from... |
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04/Dec/2018 |
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Visually impaired decry govt ‘apathy’ |
Chandigarh, December 3
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, visually impaired persons on Monday protested outside the Civil Secretariat here. They rued that the backlog of jobs... |
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04/Dec/2018 |
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Enabling the disabled |
Observed annually as The United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), on December 3, an attempt for fostering inclusiveness of differenly-abled people Sahapedia is organising... |
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04/Dec/2018 |
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