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A close-up of Salah Aldin Abdurrahman, a 27-year-old blind man and member of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher, North Darfur. The organization assists persons with disabilities across Darfur.

Players from the Single Leg Amputee Sports Club Sierra Leone (SLASC) lift their crutches for a cheer before heading to the field for a match, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded in 2001 following Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict, the Club offers trauma recovery for war amputees.

Treaties waiting to be signed, of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, by representatives of Member States, which aims to secure the rights of some 650 million persons with disabilities around the world. More than 75 countries participated in the signing ceremony, the most for the opening of any treaty. The event, held in the UN General Assembly Hall, at UN Headquarters in New York, was also attended by over 350 representatives of disability organizations from around the world, who were instrumental in the negotiation of the treaty.

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Special Schools Aid Kuwait's Handicapped Children

11/01/1969 15:49:52

Unique ID UN7768237

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Headline Special Schools Aid Kuwait's Handicapped Children

Caption Description Considerable attention has been given to Kuwait's physically-handicapped children in recent years by the Ministry of Education. Institutes have been built for the blind, the deaf and dumb, the paralyzed and those mentally retarded. Vocational training plans have been implemented. Kuwait, which stands at the north-western corner of the Arabian Gulf, has a 50-member parliament, a population of half-a-million and income per capita among the highest in the world. It is a flat, desert country, arid and riverless but having oil deposits among the largest yet discovered. Education, health and social services are free.
This deaf-mute child is receiving expert teaching in learning to read. [November 1969]

Unique Identifier UN7768238

NICA ID 51598

Production Date 11/01/1969 3:47:56 PM

Country Kuwait

Credit UN Photo/Rice

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