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Rehabilitation International is pleased to announce the election of the Professor Christoph Gutenbrunner as New President of Rehabilitation International. Professor Gutenbrunner undertook the role of the President of the Rehabilitation International on September 22nd,...
The United States International Council on Disabilities’ (USICD) Improving DPO Stakeholder’s Understanding and Monitoring of Disability Inclusive Development and Advancing the Implementation of CRPD Article 32 project provides accessible, high quality online training...
COVID 19 brought in new rehabilitation needs for persons with disabilities. For many, this has meant an increased demand for rehabilitation worldwide. We found that many required (I) Special Rehabilitation services to meet needs of lungs affected by the virus, back...
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...
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