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Notice is hereby given that the RI Governing Assembly 2024 will be held on September 22nd, 2024, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The RI Governing Assembly will be held in conjunction with the World Congress on Rehabilitation 2024.
Three sessions of RI GDDF & AF Sharing held on 23, 25-Aug and 15-Sept by the Hong Kong Joint Council for People with Disabilities via Zoom. There are 21 projects from around the globe funded by the Rehabilitation International (RI) presenting throughout the 3...
Background South Africa is currently under a National State of Disaster since the beginning of the first lock down of March 2019, currently on adjusted alert level 1, and dealing with the Omicron variant like other countries. Along with the exceptionally cold winters...
In South Africa the percentage of unemployed persons with disabilities are rising and have now exceeded 67%. The Recruitment process included persons with a wide variety of impairments such as blindness, Deaf people, persons with physical, psychosocial, and...
Background In 2011 the state program “Accessible Environment” was launched to resolve the problem of inaccessible buildings and services in Russia. However, at the very beginning of the program the issue of lack of specialists in the field of creation of accessible...
For many people with disabilities, routine airline travel, including getting to the gate and on and off the plane, remains a nightmare in the US, according to responses received by a question posed on social media by the U.S. media outlet NPR. Although Congress...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law making voting easier for people with disabilities on Nov. 15, 2021, and created a group to study removal of further barriers.The law also makes adjustments in deadlines and other technical requirements for candidates in primary election...
Zhang Haidi, president of Rehabilitation International (RI) and chairperson of the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), attends a forum of the Community Inclusion Session of the 2nd Global Disability Summit on Feb. 17 and delivers a keynote speech via video...
We are deeply disturbed from the escalation of the events and tensions in Ukraine. As an international organization for advancing the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities worldwide as its mission, our thoughts are with the Ukrainian disabled community,...
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