On the occasion of Centennial of Rehabilitation International (RI) Global, CWSN organized various activities on 3rd and 4th December 2022 in Pokhara Nepal. Being a credible member of RI, it was CWSN’s responsibility to celebrate RI’s 100th-year birthday which is one...
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RI Global Press Release: RI Global Attends CSW61
10 March 2017 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 For the second consecutive year, both of the key job market indicators increased significantly for people with disabilities. In 2016, the monthly employment-to-population ratio increased from...
RI Global Press Release: RI Intervenes at CSocD55 High-Level Meeting on Disability
4 February 2017 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Persons with disabilities are at greater risk of poverty than persons without disabilities in both developed and developing countries, panelists at the Commission on Social Development...
RI Global Press Release: RI Global Mourns the Passing of M.B. Lee
28 January 2017 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 With heavy hearts, Rehabilitation International announces the death of longtime board member, former president and great friend, M.B. Lee. Lee, the immediate Former President of the Hong Kong...
RI Global From the Field: International Day of Disabilities 2016 — SDGs and Inclusion of PwDs
7 December 2016 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 Although the decade since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — one of the most widely-ratified human rights treaties in UN history — has...
RI Global Press Release: RI Global Attends HABITAT III for Disability Rights
27 October 2016 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 “Achieving a truly inclusive and transformative New Urban Agenda requires a holistic and people-centered approach. We need to engage persons with disabilities as both agents and beneficiaries...
RI Global in the News: Pos’ability Magazine — Top 50 most influential disabled people announced as the RIWC comes to Edinburgh
25 October 2016 | Press Releases, RI In The News
Top 50 most influential disabled people announced as the RIWC comes to Edinburgh Powerful Media and Shaw Trust have announced a list of the 50 most influential disabled people globally, ahead of an international disability empowerment conference starting tomorrow...
RI Global Press Release: CoSP Day Four — RI Global Endorses Humanitarian Charter, Calling for Inclusion of PwDs
16 June 2016 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 As the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the CRPD wound down at the UN, RI Global stepped up its action with an eye to keeping Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) on the agenda of several...
RI Global Press Release: RI Global Presents Panel on Assistive Technology at 9th CoSP
10 June 2016 | All news, Press Releases
RI Global: Office of Communications Contact: Adrian Brune, +1 347-759-9501 The countdown is over. The COSP has arrived – one of the major events on the disability advocates’ calendar. With the implementation of the SDGs last fall, this COSP has concentrated on...
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