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Poverty Alleviation Strategy (PAST) )
Survey on Disability and Poverty
A study titled, "DISABILITY AND POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A SNAPSHOT FROM THE WORLD HEALTH SURVEY" has been released by the World Bank Social Protection and Labor Unit, Human Development Network (HDNSP). The paper investigates socio-economic conditions and poverty among persons with disabilities in developing countries, and presents a snapshot of economic and poverty situation of working-age persons with disabilities and their households in 15 developing countries, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in Africa; Bangladesh, Lao People's
Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Pakistan, and the Philippines in Asia; and Brazil, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Paraguay in Latin America and the Caribbean. To read, go to
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/
WDSP/IB/2011/06/16/000386194_20110616042613/
Rendered/INDEX/625640NWP0110900PUBLIC00BOX361487B.txt
Disability and Participation in Public Life
The questions for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) thematic study on persons with disabilities' right to participation in political and public life are published on the website of the OHCHR. Deadline for submissions is 31 August 2011. Go to http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/Pages/ParticipationPolitical
SAFOD - A Promising Future for People with Disabilities
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