Those who responded to the pamphlets were sent away to different uninhabited islands along with the disabled in an attempt to rid the next generation of their supposedly substandard genes.

The focus, therefore, should be on creating mainstream programs that take into account accommodating people with disabilities, rather than creating separate programs.

Disarmament to find solutions for landmine related problems; Handicap International is backing-up support for people with a disability in North-Korea.

International Day of Disabled Persons is an annual event to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of people with disabilities.

Prior to IDEA, only about 20 percent of children with disabilities attended school.

In China, the Special Olympics have been helped by the chairman of the China Disabled Persons Federation, Deng Pufang, who is son of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.

In the people’s paradise that is North Korea, disabled – even short – people are considered subhuman.

ON A local-government website, Chen Guangcheng is still listed as one of Linyi prefecture's top news personalities of 2003: "a young blind person who upholds the rights of the handicapped".

ON A local-government website, Chen Guangcheng is still listed as one of Linyi prefecture’s top news personalities of 2003: “a young blind person who upholds the rights of the handicapped”.

It is necessary to transform the disabled sports from competitiveness to mass under this kind of environment.

On behalf of China Disabled Persons' Federation, I hereby extend my warm congratulations for the convening of this forum!

The 14th Paralympic Games will see disabled athletes from around the world compete in 20 events ranging from wheelchair fencing to powerlifting.

Two women with mental retardation sued under Title II, claiming the state of Georgia discriminated against them by serving them in institutionalized rather than community settings.

Superstition and fatalism were common, and people believed that some persons with disabilities had magic powers and could predict fortune or drive out evil spirits (Su, 1993).

A British theater company has dropped the word hunchback from its stage adaptation of the classic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame to avoid offending disabled people, newspapers reported.

At age 18, while a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he competed at the 1995 Pan American Games for the Disabled, helping the United States defeat Brazil.

On February 23rd 2004, Assistant Minister Shen Guofang met with Louis Gallegos, visiting Chairman of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In order to master disables' situation, the Second China National Sample Survey on Disability is under way from 2006 to 2007.

FFO has been collaborating with CDPF for many years.

Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan was Director-General at the Department of Health and Welfare of Disabled Persons before joining WHO as Assistant Director-General.