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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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Headline Physical Rehabilitation

Caption Description To widen knowledge of new techniques in physical rehabilitation and thereby enable more thousands of disabled people to be restored to more normal and useful lives, demonstration centres are being organized in various parts of the world. Government are helped in this through the United Nations as part of its social welfare work.
Young nurses from the Hospital training school watching a demonstration of hydro-therapy treatment of a polio case paralysed from the waist down. The demonstrator Miss Karen Lundörg, a physical therapist from Sweden with the U.N. Mission. [No exact date or location]

Unique Identifier UN7471032

NICA ID 384151

Production Date 01/01/1957 9:48:21 PM

Country Brazil

Credit UN Photo

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