Disability

Please see below selected recent disability-related developments.

See also:

• What's New? - Disability

May 2020

Halcyon curates the most significant disability-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with disability-related challenges.

Halcyon Highlights is a bi-weekly round-up of some of the most compelling trends that we have spotted over the past fortnight.  + , - or = indicate whether we consider each trend/development to prove mainly positive, negative or neutral/too early to judge...

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.

With 80% of people with disabilities

...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?

• Disability - 20 countries have ratified a first international convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.

• Dignity/Disability - there is a growing need to provide employment to people with disabilities, to help them live with dignity. Exclusion of the disabled results in an estimated loss of 1.94 trillion to global GDP.

• Dignity/Disability - there is a growing need to provide employment to people with disabilities, to help them live with dignity. Exclusion of the disabled results in an estimated loss of 1.94 trillion to global GDP.