'A World Enabled'. Victor Pineda.
by Pineda, Victor; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 47Human Relations. Publisher: UN Chronicle, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Disability rights movement | Discrimination against people with disabilities | Human rights -- International aspects | Mass media and social service | People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc | United NationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "More than 600 million persons, almost 10 per cent of the world's population, have a disability. This number will rise dramatically in the coming years as the population ages and more people become disabled by HIV/AIDS. For this reason, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Shashi Tharoor has stated that the development of the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities is one of the ten most important stories the world should hear more about. A World Enabled was established to directly respond to this challenge." (UN CHRONICLE) This article discusses A World Enabled, "a new social change media project...[that] will go far beyond physical access for people with disabilities and look at disability as a global human rights issue. It will use worldwide digital mass communications as creative tools to challenge, examine, illuminate and inspire action for political and social change."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: 'A World Enabled', No. 4, 2004; pp. 12-13.
"More than 600 million persons, almost 10 per cent of the world's population, have a disability. This number will rise dramatically in the coming years as the population ages and more people become disabled by HIV/AIDS. For this reason, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Shashi Tharoor has stated that the development of the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities is one of the ten most important stories the world should hear more about. A World Enabled was established to directly respond to this challenge." (UN CHRONICLE) This article discusses A World Enabled, "a new social change media project...[that] will go far beyond physical access for people with disabilities and look at disability as a global human rights issue. It will use worldwide digital mass communications as creative tools to challenge, examine, illuminate and inspire action for political and social change."
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