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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.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, like the other United Nations human rights conventions, (such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) resulted from decades of activity during which group rights standards developed from aspirations to binding treaties.
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 ...
The Declaration makes thirteen distinct proclamations: Definition of the term "disabled person" as "any person unable to ensure by himself or herself, wholly or partly, the necessities of a normal individual and/or social life, as a result of deficiency, either congenital or not, in his or her physical or mental capabilities".
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 college, Jeremiah Smith, 35, briefly worked at the Waldorf, Maryland, Cracker Barrel where 11 children with disabilities were refused dine-in service earlier this month.
On the evening of Monday 23 June 1980 a "tremendous roar filled the Convention Centre in Winnipeg" as the vote was taken to set up the World Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, soon afterwards known at the Disabled Peoples' International. An Ad-Hoc Planning Committee was established and met several times in the remaining time in Winnipeg ...