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May 12, 2008 International Disability Alliance (IDA) meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Pictured (from left to right) are: Jahda Abou Khalil (assistant to Nawaf Kabbara), Nawaf Kabbara (Arab Organization of Disabled People - AODP), Michael Fox (Rehabilitation International - RI), William Rowland (World Blind Union - WBU), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Tina Minkowitz (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry), Yannis Vardakastanis (European Disability Forum - EDF), Martha Lucia Osorno Posada (World Federation of the Deaf), Robert Martin (Inclusion International) and Tomas Lagerwall (IDA Secretariat).
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August 23 - 28, 2008, Quebec, Canada: RI World Congress and Governing Assembly. Find all necessary information and documents at www.riquebec2008.org.
August 26-27, 2008, Quebec, Canada: Global Summit on the Rights of Women with Disabilities Flyer (pdf) | Flyer (Word) | Tentative Program (Word)
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July 14, 2008: Distinguished Disability Advocate Venus Ilagan Appointed as new RI Secretary General Press Release (pdf) | Press Release (Word)
April 15-16 2008: RI Latin American Regional Conference on Disability Rights Convention, in Mexico City in April 2008 (Word - English) | Text-Only - English | Word - Spanish | Text-Only - Spanish
Tentative Program (PDF -English) |
Tentative Program (Word - English) |
Programa Tentativo (PDF - Spanish) |
Programa Tentativo (Word - Spanish)
January 28 -29 2008: Conference on Disability and Disasters: Presentation Paper by Michael Fox & Key note address by Tomas Lagerwall.
December 2007: Special edition of International Rehabilitation Review on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PDF) | Word version
December 13, 2007: RI launches Training Manual and Participant Manual on HIV/AIDS Awareness and Disability Rights, specially-designed for young people with disabilities in Africa. Participants manual | Training manual
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