News alert from the Disability and Rehabilitation Team at WHO
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December, the count down begins to the launch of the World Report on Disability on
9 June 2011 in Geneva. This major report, published jointly with the World Bank, provides evidence on the current situation of people with disabilities, and identifies ways of removing barriers to the participation of people with disabilities in their communities.
We want to hear from people with disabilities about what can be done to overcome barriers. To start the debate, we asked Faustina Urassa, a woman with disabilities from Tanzania, "What's disability to you?"
See what she told us at www.youtube.com/WHO<file:///\\www.youtube.com\WHO> or at the World Report website, www. hwww.who.int/disabilities/world_report/<http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/en/index.html>
Sign up at the World Health Organization Facebook page - http://on.fb.me/fX1iN8 - to join the debate and receive regular updates on the global and country launches of the World Report. Facebook will be our main channel for disability dialogue. In the months ahead, we will post three more films, featuring women with disabilities from Lebanon, United Kingdom, and Bolivia.
In the run up to the launch, we welcome your photographs, stories and short films on the theme "This is disability to me",
Please share this email with your disability community, and ask them to join ours.
For further information, please contact Tom Shakespeare: [log in to unmask]
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