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Deafblind Awareness Week [16] [17] runs at the end of June to coincide with the birthday of Helen Keller. [18] In 2021, it fell on the week of 28 June - 4 July. [ 19 ] The week aims to make dual sensory loss a more widely known condition; educating people about what it is and letting them know what to look out for in themselves and others.
An important achievement of Vision 2020 was improving awareness of the burden of blindness. Getting prevention of blindness onto the healthcare agenda of the WHO and its member states ensured that those countries included allocations for eye care in their budgets. World Sight Day also helps to raise awareness of blindness and visual impairment. [8]
RNIB (formally, the Royal National Institute of Blind People and previously the Royal National Institute for the Blind) is a British charity, founded in 1868, that serves people living with visual impairments. [2] It is regarded as a leader in the field in supporting people in the UK who have vision loss. [3]
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The UK freezes the assets of six Russian prison bosses after the death of activist Alexei Navalny in a penal colony the previous week. [197] The UK quits the Energy Charter Treaty, which had allowed fossil fuel companies to sue governments over profits lost in the drive towards net zero. [198]
SeeAbility (formerly School for the Indigent Blind and Royal School for the Blind) is a UK charity that provides support and campaigns for better eye care for people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss.
The 2024 Blind World T20 also known as 2024 Blind T20 World Cup was a T20I tournament which was also the fourth edition of the Blind T20 World Cup for blind cricketers, held in Pakistan from 23 November to 3 December. [2] [3] India were the defending champions of Blind T20 World Cup. The Indian cricket team has pulled out of the Blind T20 World ...
The UK deposited their instrument of ratification on October 1, 2020. [24] This meant that on January 1, 2021, the UK became a contracting party in its own right. On September 20, 2017, the EU Commission published a directive and a regulation on the Marrakesh treaty that had to be transposed into national law, in all 28 member states; the ...