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• Hearing impaired people in india is more than 13 percent

  Mar 05: Compared to the situation a few years ago, when only about three to four per cent of the global population was struggling with different kinds of hearing impairment, now because of steep increase of noise pollution in the form of defeaning sound...

• Japan partners with UNICEF to help eradicate polio in Angola

  TOKYO, Japan, Mar 03: The Government of Japan has contributed approximately $4.7 million towards UNICEF’s efforts to eradicate polio in Angola. ...

• Turkish woman proves disability no barrier to making acclaimed work

  Mar 02: Artist Ayşe Nihan Uğuz, who is forced to live with a rare genetic disorder, has opened eight solo exhibitions and many joint exhibitions for her paintings during her career. ...

• Rail budget in India fails to please people with disabilities

  Mumbai, Mar 01: This year’s railway budget has remained colourless not just for regular commuters, but also disabled people. ...

• School in Pakistan raises funds for special children

  Karachi, Mar 01: The students of Dawood Public School’s A-level section, who are registered on the Family Education Services Foundation (FESF), ‘MOVE’ programme took their first step by organising a bake-sale to collect funds for disabled and unde...

• Indonesia Health Minister calls for better supply of prosthetic, orthotics manufacturers to meet the needs of disabled people

  Feb 28: Indonesia needs better orthotics and prosthetics services due to the vast increase in the number of disabled people, a minister says. ...

• WHO revises estimate of global vision loss

  Feb 25: The statistics estimated that a total of 285 million people worldwide were visually impaired of which 39 million were blind and 246 million had moderate to severe visual impairment. ...

• Japan Haneda Airport adopts universal design to facilities disabled travelers, elderly and people with kids

  Tokyo, Feb 25: Japan's airports have been rapidly improving their buildings and facilities based on the concept of "universal design" as a wide variety of people, such as the elderly, parents with baby strollers and people using wheelchairs, p...

• Municipality of New Lucena hosts disability affairs meeting in Philippines

  ILOILO CITY. Feb 24: The municipality of New Lucena, one of the two pioneering sites of the of the Non- Handicapping Environment project in the country, played host to the first quarter meeting of the Regional Committee on Disability Affairs 6 for this ...

• Azerbaijan adopted a program of social protection of disabled persons and children with disabilities

  Baku, Fineko, Feb 22: The State Program of financing the measures for social protection of disabled persons and children with disabilities has been endorsed in Azerbaijan. ...

• Chinese group vows greater efforts to save disabled children who are forced to beg

  BEIJING, Feb. 22: The China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), a social group approved by the central government, vowed on Tuesday to closely cooperate with authorities to save disabled children who are forced to beg. ...

• First daycare centre for disabled children opened in Azerbaijan

  Baku, Fineko, Feb 21: The first daycare centre for disabled children is to open in Azerbaijan tomorrow. ...

• More benefits for couples who adopt disabled children in South Korea

  Feb 19: A 50-year-old office worker, Jun Soon-geol, and his wife Shin Joo-ryeon, also 50, adopted two baby girls 11 years ago. ...

• Telecom service provider 'Viva' in Bahrain backs Bahrain Deaf Society

  Bahrain, Feb 18: Viva, a leading telecom service provider in Bahrain, will sponsor a six month workshop organised by the Bahrain Deaf Society. ...

• In Kuwait, MPs want ‘Amendments’ to Housing Care and Disability Laws

  KUWAIT CITY, Feb 17: MPs Musallam Al-Barrak, Ali Al-Deqbasi, Khalid Al-Tahous, Dr Hassan Jowhar and Al-Saifi Mubarak Al-Saifi on Monday presented a number of proposals, including the amendment of the Housing Care and Disability laws. ...

• World Health Organisation finds polio virus in Delhi sewage

  India, Feb 17: In what could be a cause of concern for the national capital, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found the polio virus in the city's sewage. The Delhi government is on alert and has increased surveillance and immunisation of suscepti...

• Angola Parliament may pass bill on disabled people

  Luanda, Feb 17: The National Assembly may approve during the current legislature ending by 2012 a bill on disabled people intended to grant all goods, services and benefits in the favour of disabled people, said Wednesday in Luanda the MP at the parliam...

• Exhibition on technology for visual disability in Sharjah

  Sharjah, Feb 16: Institutes across the country participated on Monday in the first Exhibition and Conference of Visual Disability Technologies, in order to facilitate the integration of visually impaired people into mainstream schools and jobs. ...

• Hearing impaired can drive in India: HC

  New Delhi, Feb 15: In a landmark judgment benefiting 50 million people in the country, the Delhi High Court (HC) on Monday said people with hearing impairment can also drive. ...

• Thousands of disabled people deprived of govt jobs in Pakistan

  LAHORE, Feb 14: The City District Government has miserably failed in timely issuing disability certificates to thousands of applicants, thus depriving disabled people from applying for quota seats in government departments and from getting special allow...