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RI Global Newsletter, February 2019

11 March 2019 | ,

  UN Women held the Multi-Stakeholder Forum in the preparations for the CSW63 The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will be held from 11 to 22 March 2019 in New York, under its priority theme “Social protection systems, access to...

RI Global Newsletter, January 2019

7 February 2019 | ,

The 57th Session of the Commission for Social Development (CScocD57) takes place in February The fifty-seventh session of the Commission for Social Development (CScoD 57) will take place from 11 to 21 February at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The...

Dylan Alcott aces Australia Day

31 January 2019 |

An emotional Dylan Alcott claimed the Australian Open quad wheelchair title for a fifth straight year, crowned champion in front of a huge home crowd in Melbourne on Australia Day. Alcott downed US rival David Wagner 6-4, 7-6(2) in a see-sawing final on Rod Laver...

Alpine Worlds 2019: Ski wax maestros

31 January 2019 |

Down on the concrete slabs of the underground parking of a hotel packed with Para alpine skiers, burly men in aprons are hard at work with the smell of melted wax lingering in the air and drilling noises cutting through the pounding rhythms of a boombox. As the...

Alpine Worlds 2019: The perfect tribute

31 January 2019 |

It was a moment for the family photo album - Canadian Para alpine skier Frederique Turgeon slumped on one knee at the finish line of her first World Championships, exhausted and emotional, as she realised the enormity of what she had just achieved. A month ago, Ronald...

South Korea beat Italy in PyeongChang rematch

31 January 2019 |

Ten months after the historic Para ice hockey Paralympic bronze medal in PyeongChang, South Korea met Italy again. This time on Italian ice, in the final of the Torino International Tournament. The result was another action-packed match and one more Korean victory in...

Alberto Simonelli breaks own world record

31 January 2019 |

Alberto Simonelli’s accuracy appears even sharper ahead of June’s World Archery Para Championships in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The Italian Paralympic and Worlds medallist shot a new Para archery world record at the Nimes Archery Tournament held from 18-20...

Skiers reveal what it takes to race in the speed events

31 January 2019 |

It takes a certain kind of person to propel themselves on a sit ski off a steep mountain slope with a vertical drop of 480 metres at more than 100 kilometres per hour. The downhill competition at the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in Sella Nevea, Italy is...

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