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March 05: The project partnership of the 'Improving Person Centred Technology (ImPaCT) in Europe' project is carrying out a research to map the current situation in the provision of Person Centered Technology (PCT) in Europe.
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New Delhi, March 5: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international body which develops standards to ensure web accessibility to all, will host its conference in the city on May 6 - 7, 2010.
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 : Malaysia will ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in April this year, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said.
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DAKAR, March 4: A campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five against polio will kick off Saturday in west and central Africa in a bid to halt a year-long epidemic, health bodies said in a joint communique.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, March 2: Thirteen blind people have accused the Social Affairs Administration here of threatening them with imprisonment for filing a complaint against the Ibssar Charitable Society.
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WHISTLER, March 2: As the curtain is drawn on Vancouver's Olympic Games, the stage is being set for Canada's first Winter Paralympics. The Paralympics, which feature athletes with physical disabilities,
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Bahrain, March 2: Zain Bahrain, a leading telecom services provider in Bahrain, has launched a customized communications service to meet the needs of hearing-impaired, using superior technology visual aids to communicate with these customers.
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TOTTORI, March 2: The manager a prefectural housing complex appointed by the Tottori Prefectural Government refused to rent apartments to three people on the grounds that they had disabilities, it has been learned.
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SAITAMA: "I would have ended up on the street without help," said a 42-year-old man, who had been living on the street for many years before he was provided social aid for intellectually disabled person two years ago.
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 1: Disabled people are finding the environment increasingly unfriendly, no thanks to a wonderful law which glaringly lacks proper enforcement.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27: Researchers from the Catholic University of Rome have identified a possible onset mechanism for multiple sclerosis.
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Feb 22: The Outer Ear is a non-surgical concept system for hearing impaired that detects sound-waves and converts them into physical vibration. A watch-like wrist-strap acts as the receiver and transmits a signal via Bluetooth to a device mounted on the...
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Feb 22: The Executive Director of the Centre for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEDPD), Mr. Alexander Tetteh, has expressed dismay at the various forms of discrimination that People With Disabilities (PWDs) continuously suffer in trying to a...
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Feb 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning handed over three-wheelers to 100 disabled soldiers at the Army playgrounds under the first phase of the Three-wheelers to War Heroes Program 2010 organized by the Ranaviru Services Autho...
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Feb 21: The Istanbul municipality has teamed up with Turkish Airlines, the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies and a global provider of IT solutions for the travel industry in an effort to find more qualified personnel for Turkey's tourism industry by ...
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Feb 17: Bellevue, Washington-based travel site Expedia.com said Tuesday that it is looking to help disabled travelers to find and book accommodations, with a new set of search tools.
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VietNam, Feb 17: “I still can’t believe it is true. It’s like a dream,” Tam – an old woman said, her eyes shimmering with tears while recalling the very first time her grandson, Nguyen Nhat Trung Anh came out to work as a waiter at a coffee shop...
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Sharjah, Feb 16: The Reading Festival in Sharjah aims to emphasise the importance of reading, and part of its efforts is to increase the awareness among children with reading and visual disabilities.
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February 15: For most of us, sitting down in front of a computer for work or play is a pretty simple affair. But for people who are blind, paralyzed or otherwise physically disabled people, using a computer can be an exercise in frustration.
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Feb 15: Anew report by the Department of Health has criticised the HSE for the difficulty people with disabilities have in accessing health services.
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