Please see below selected recent disability-related developments.
See also: Halcyon Disability Headlines
August 2018
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At TEDxBrussels 2011, the idea of building "paraorchestras", which would showcase the talents of disabled musicians worldwide, met with great enthusiasm.
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...that disabled people face daily. More than one billion people worldwide experience some form of disability, the UN and World Bank claimed in their World Report on Disability
A global foundation helps people who are significantly impaired by a physical limitation in their daily lives, and helps improve their integration into the wider society and economy.
...won by a particular nation being an accurate proxy of the way it looks after its disabled. Or is it merely that investment is concentrated in high-profile events like the Paralympics to the detriment of day-to-day care? Or, less cynically, is it just that a particular crop of athletes all happen to come good at the same time?