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The Brazilian government launched on Monday a nationwide campaign aiming to encourage women to denounce domestic violence, a problem the country has been facing for years. With the motto "You have a voice," the campaign features advertisements across all media to...

Ma Fuxing's life journey was off to a rough start after he lost both hands in an accident when he was four months old, but the journey has inspired generations of children in a remote Chinese village. For nearly 40 years, Ma has been teaching at the elementary school...

South Africa will host the wheelchair basketball qualifiers for the 2020 Para Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo in August. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) made the changes in an announcement on Wednesday, which means that Kenyan men's and...

Northwestern Medicine researchers have discovered why a specific genetic mutation causes intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder in children. They found genetic mutations in human patients in a gene called Usp9x result in the brain growing fewer synapses....

Chinese netizens called for a wider approval of guide dogs in public places on the 2019 International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), which fell on Tuesday. The appeal has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, and...

In the case of 12-year-old jazz drummer Liu Boyu, sporting long hair is not to make himself look cool but to hide his defect -- two underdeveloped ears. Born with microtia, Liu's external ears are missing completely and he has very little functional hearing. However,...

Brunei is planning to build a complex for persons with disabilities as the government is increasingly giving more attention to the wellbeing and development of the differently-abled community in the country, a senior government official said on Wednesday. The...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the global development agenda. "When we secure the rights of people with disabilities, we move closer to achieving the central promise of the 2030 Agenda: to leave...