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The year 1981 was proclaimed the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) by the United Nations. [1] It called for a plan of action with an emphasis on equalization of opportunities , rehabilitation and prevention of disabilities.
In 1976, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons. [2] It called for a plan of action at the National, regional and International levels, with an emphasis on equalization of opportunities, rehabilitation and prevention of disabilities.
DPI is a network of national organizations or assemblies of disabled people, established in 1980–81 to promote the human rights of disabled people through full participation, equalization of opportunity and development. [2] [3] DPI assists organisations in over 152 nations with the day to day issues of helping disabled people. They also host ...
1981 was the International Year of Disabled Persons; an outcome of year was the World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. The Year was followed by the Decade of Disabled Persons, 1983–1992.
The Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons is a human rights declaration of the General Assembly of the United Nations, made on 9 December 1975. It is the 3447th resolution made by the Assembly.
BCODP was founded in 1981, the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP). Vic Finkelstein was especially keen to build 'a mass movement' of disabled people in Britain. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
After working in the State Department, Reich's efforts eventually led the United Nations to declare 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons, and Reich became president of the organization coordinating American activities in observance of the year: the U.S. Council for the International Year of Disabled Persons. Afterward, leveraging ...
In 1976, the United Nations began planning for its International Year of Disabled Persons (1981), [86] later renamed the International Year of Disabled Persons. Some disability activists used the Year to highlight various injustices, such as in Australia where beauty pageants were targeted in order to, in the words of activist Leslie Hall ...