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The Purple Parade is a unifying national platform to promote awareness and celebrate abilities of Persons with Disabilities in Singapore. The Purple Parade movement ensures that Persons with Disabilities are included in Singapore’s growth and have equal access to education, employment, transport and social networks.
2024: “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future” [16] On the 2012 International Day of People with Disability, the United Kingdom government introduced mandatory work for disabled people who received welfare benefits in order to "Improve disabled peoples chances of getting work by ...
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 ...
The first Congress of DPI took place in Singapore on 30 November – 4 December 1981 with 400 disabled delegates from all regions of the world. The British delegation, including Vic Finkelsein , had been mandated by the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People , BCODP, to challenge some aspects of the draft constitution, and this ...
A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore: 1965-2015. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781315527406. Kuansong, Zhuang. "Enabling the Singapore Story: Writing a History of Disability", in Monograph 42: Studies in Malaysian & Singapore History: Mubin Sheppard Memorial Essays, pp. 47–81. Edited by Bruce Lockhart and Lim Tse Siang.
In 2016, a one-day conference was hosted by Carleton University and organized by A11yYOW Archived 2019-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, Ottawa's accessibility Meetup. [ 11 ] In 2017, Apple released a series of videos and organized a concert as part of a week-long series of events marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
2 April – Joseph Schooling, who won Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal, retires from swimming at 28. [25]15 April – Lee Hsien Loong announces his resignation as the Prime Minister of Singapore effective on 15 May 2024, paving the way for the assumption of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong as the next Prime Minister of Singapore.
The Singapore National Para Games (SNPG), formerly known as National Disability Games and then as National Disability League (NDL), is a multi-sports event for the disabled in Singapore. [1] The league is held over a period of a few months yearly, to promote sports and nurture healthy lifestyle amongst the disabled as well as providing local ...