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Humanity & Inclusion is a founding member of the Cluster Munition Coalition, an international civil society campaign that works to erase the production and storage of all the munition. [5] In February 2006, Belgium became the first country to enact such a ban as a result of Handicap International's public awareness and advocacy efforts. [6]
Broken Chair is an original idea and project of Paul Vermeulen, co-founder and director of Handicap International Switzerland. [2] In October 1996, he commissioned the 10-meter high (33 ft) chair, with a torn-off leg, to be installed on the Place des Nations, [2] motivated to try to get as many nations to sign Ottawa Treaty on landmines in December 1997.
On September 15 to 16, 2011, co-sponsored by the China Disabled Persons' Federation and Handicap International, the nationwide community-based rehabilitation of international cooperation project workshop held in Beijing. [14] On October 11, 2011, the opening ceremony of the Eighth Chinese National Games for the Disabled was held in Hangzhou. [15]
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London lit up in purple to mark 2020 International Day of Persons with Disabilities The Disability flag created for this day. International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) is an international observance promoted by the United Nations since 1992. It has been observed with varying ...
Handicap International has been working in Cuba since 1998. [1] The program helps families work with children who have disabilities and increases awareness especially about intellectual disabilities. [1] Other programs include helping Cubans with disabilities and employment issues and also to provide training for disaster preparedness. [1]
Humanity and Inclusion (formerly Handicap International) is one of the 6 founding members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Handicap International France and Belgium are involved into Mine Risk Education and demining projects in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Mozambique, and Somalia. [9]
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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.