The International Year of Disabled Persons.

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability: Disability Inclusive Development and International Development Cooperation

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...

Labour Law for Persons with Disability in Iran: From First International Efforts to Decent Work

Objective: Analysis and Matching the legal system of Work for Persons with disability in Iran with Standards of International Labor Organization concerning to Decent Work. Materials & Methods: In this descriptive – Analytic study , after studying International efforts around Labor law for Persons With Disability , in the context of general and special Human rights documents and ILO ‘s Standa...

Report on ICRC technical orthopaedic programme for war disabled.

Introduction In 1994, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been engaged in sixteen countries on behalf of war amputees and other disabled. Among these countries, three new programmes have started in Iraq, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Whereas the programme of Colombia has been completed at the end of the year and handed over to the ICRC counterpart. During the year, 14,986 prosthes...

The international scene: patterns of organization and development in member associations of the International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped.

Driving for the disabled.

In this International Year of Disabled People it is important for medical practitioners to know about adaptations available for disabled drivers so that they may suggest suitably modified vehicles to those of their patients who need them. The ability to drive a motor car can radically alter the quality of life led by disabled people as inability to drive causes brooding and frustration when the...