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UN envoy for people with disabilities visits NKorea
The United Nations official responsible for the rights of disabled people on Wednesday met North Korea's Ambassador for Human Rights in Pyongyang.Catalina Devandas Aguilar, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with...
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Rally in support of equal rights for disabled
1. Wide of disabled people gathered at square
2. Mid of woman in wheelchair arriving at gathering
3. People in wheelchair
4. Pan from disabled people holding Norwegian flag to group of disabled people from Finland
5. Close up of...
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Hotels, municipal recreation centers and other swimming pool operators are scrambling to comply with new government regulations requiring public pools to be accessible to people with disabilities.
HEADLINE:Hotels, rec centers try to slow pool access regs
CAPTION: Hotels, municipal recreation centers and other swimming pool operators are scrambling to comply with new government regulations requiring public pools to be accessible to...
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CHINA: NGO FORUM ON WOMEN : MADELEINE ALBRIGHT SPEECH
English/Nat
The US ambassador to the UN Thursday criticised China's heavy-handed policing and crackdown on free expression at the private women's forum outside Beijing.
Madeleine Albright also expressed her disappointment that facilities...
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Blind candidate wants to boost rights for disabled people and women
A blind, female candidate is running in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tunisia.
Whatever the outcome of her election bid, Temna Tabib is hoping to boost to the rights of disabled people in Tunisia and to the status of women in...
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Models in wheelchairs debut at Moscow Fashion Week
LEADIN: People with disabilities are campaigning for better facilities and access in Russia. To highlight their cause, Moscow Fashion Week this year included a special show for people with disabilities.STORYLINE:Striking a pose on the...
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Skiers call for more disabled facilities in France
Morzine (Haute-Savoie region) - January 28, 2008
1. Various of man in seated skiing chair going down slope
2. Car drives up to ski lift
3. Disabled man Yohan gets out of car and into wheelchair
4. Yohan talking to snowboarder
5....
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Holocaust museum opens in Mexico City
1. Wide tilt up of museum exterior
2. Mid of museum sign
3. Wide of people during inauguration
4. Mid of Mexican President Felipe Calderon and museum director Sharon Zaga revealing commemorative plaque
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Felipe...
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Thousands take to the streets to protest against troika and austerity measures in the country
Thousands of people have marched in Lisbon to protest the austerity measures the government has been compelled to adopt in return for a 78 (b) billion euro (105.6 (b) billion US dollar) bailout reached in 2011.
Saturday's march to...
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Disabled people make walking aids for others
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A prosthetics factory in northern Egypt is predominantly staffed by people who understand the product best - people who have disabilities themselves.
Their work aims to alleviate the obstacles faced by...
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Disability Rights Activist Imani Barbarin And Social Media Power
Imani Barbarin is a Pennsylvania-based writer, public speaker and disability rights activist with cerebral palsy.
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Monument now accessible to wheelchair users
1. Various wide of Acropolis main entrance and tourists
2. Sign saying "Entrance for people with disabilities"
3. Person on wheelchair making their way around Acropolis
4. Various of elevator
5. Woman wheeling onto elevator
6. Various of...