Disability Programme

Sweden has provided financial assistance for the development of an office on the status of disabled persons in South Africa.

55. Assistance concentrated on advisory services on accessibility to the disabled two missions were undertaken during the period covered.

Community centres for the disabled 252 993 252 993

History of Providing Solutions for the Disabled

The General Assembly and its Main Committees

equal opportunities for disabled persons.

Arab regional summer games for people with disabilities

Assistance is available from the relevant education institutions for parents whose disabled children are being educated at home.

Victim assistance must therefore be broad in scope, involve the victims themselves in the process, and include both general health services and the reintegration of people with disabilities into active life, while offering support to their communities.

The Secretariat provides support for the activities of organizations of persons with disabilities in their activities through the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability.

Vehicles especially intended for the transport of disabled persons.

Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons 1 700.0

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implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and of the Long Term

The gendered roles of women as care givers and their other roles in society often create difficulties for women with disabilities who must perform a wide range of physical maintenance tasks or if their conditions deteriorate they too need extensive care themselves.

concerning Disabled Persons

for Persons with Disabilities

To complement those efforts, regional mechanisms such as the Southern African Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD) must be given sufficient resources to enable them to render assistance at the national level.

The mission assisted in analyses of the current situation of disabled persons, in identification of priorities for policy formulation and in formulation of options for short and long term action.

Progress towards the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities

Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities See chap. VII, para. 95.

This equipment is used mainly for the rehabilitation of disabled patients.

Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons

Self help project for the disabled at Kasama

For the persons with disabilities of the I and II disability category the pension amount shall be not less than the state social insurance benefit (LVL 30) with the respective coefficients applied 1.6 for the persons with disabilities of the I category, 1.4 for the persons with disabilities of the II category.

The undemanding terrain is also suitable for walking with prams and for wheelchair users.

FAO also provides technical assistance to train disabled groups in the production of fruit and vegetables in India.

It was built in 1828, by the engineer Plouard, for the society Pont des Invalides after the demolition of the suspension bridge at Les Invalides.

Action to promote effective crime prevention

quot Recognizing the contribution of non governmental organizations, especially organizations of persons with disabilities, in the global effort to bring about full participation and equality for persons with disabilities,

The Ministry of Health also provides free health services to persons with disabilities.

Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar

Through the Foundation of Cultural Capital the state has granted co funding for joint projects in EU educational and cultural programmes, supports the participation of educational establishments in international professional organisations, the participation of students at international contests, exhibitions and shows.

Vali Asr Rehabilitation Foundation for Disabled Children and Adults

(i) Convening of conferences on the needs and capability of disabled persons

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5. United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability

Running costs, Jericho Centre for the Disabled, West Bank

To improve the conditions of the disabled, a national committee on disability had been set up.

Disabled Persons

Helping others to help themselves

Together with ICRC and Red Crescent Societies and other NGOs, UNICEF continued to support projects for street children and the identification of the disabled.

Noting with satisfaction that the Standard Rules on the Equalization of the Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities play an increasingly important role in the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities,