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  2. 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 ...

  3. International Year of Disabled Persons - Wikipedia

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    December 3 each year, since 1992, is identified by the United Nations as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. British new wave singer-songwriter Ian Dury, himself a disabled person, released a song titled "Spasticus Autisticus" in 1981, which he intended as a scathing critique of the International Year, which he viewed as ...

  4. Celebrate These Holly, Jolly December Holidays and ...

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    Dec. 3: World Pear Day, International Day of Persons With Disabilities, National Make a Gift Day, National Green Bean Casserole Day, National Day of Giving, World Trick Shot Day

  5. Category:Disability observances - Wikipedia

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    European Year of People with Disabilities; G. ... United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities; W. ... This page was last edited on 16 January 2024, ...

  6. Disability flag - Wikipedia

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    The disability flag, overcoming flag or Flag of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a flag that represents people who have disabilities. It was created by the Valencian dancer Eros Recio in 2017 [1] [2] and then presented to the United Nations. The flag is meant for general use, particularly at disability-centered events.

  7. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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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.

  8. List of observances in the United States by presidential ...

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    4th Thursday in November: Thanksgiving Day [20] Friday after Thanksgiving: Native American Heritage Day [21] December 1: World AIDS Day; December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities [22] December 7: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day; December 10: Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week; December 15: Bill of Rights Day

  9. Disability Pride Month - Wikipedia

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    On March 12, 1990, over 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S. Capitol to demand that Congress pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. Upon arrival, about 60 activists, including eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, physically demonstrated the inaccessibility of public spaces by getting out of their wheelchairs or setting aside their mobility aids and crawling up the ...