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See:Demographics of Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka about 8.7% of the total population above the age of 5 live with some form of disability, and it is estimated that about 300,000 people in the 18-60 age group have some form of disability. About 57% of disabled people are male, and 43% are female, as of 2012.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Sri Lankan people. It includes Sri Lankan people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from Sri Lanka .
Disability in Sri Lanka; S. Sri Lanka at the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games This page was last edited on 20 May 2023, at 15:41 (UTC). Text is ...
The Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for social services, social welfare and Kandyan heritage. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on social empowerment and welfare and other subjects which come under its purview. [ 1 ]
Private provident funds existed in the private sector, with some companies contributing on a voluntary basis until 1958, when the Employees' Provident Fund was established by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike following the enactment of the Employees' Provident Fund Act No 15 of 1958 which established the Employees' Provident Fund which made it compulsory for all employers and employees to contribute if ...
The launch of the World report on disability, on 9 June 2011 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, received widespread media coverage. Global and national media outlets such as The Guardian , [ 4 ] Washington Post , [ 5 ] The Globe and Mail , [ 6 ] Sydney Morning Herald , [ 7 ] Le Nouvel Observateur , La Nacion , The Hindu , Gazeta ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Pages in category "Sri Lankan disability rights activists" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. P. Ajith C. S. Perera