Disabilities and rehabilitation

2012 news

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12 December 2012

Call for research proposals: Guidelines on health-related rehabilitation

6 December 2012

WHO hosts global expert consultation on disability statistics

3 December 2012

How a Pacific islander with disability is helping build a better future for all

28 November 2012

WHO co-sponsors 1st CBR World Congress

14 November 2012

WHO statement on involuntary sterilization

12 November 2012

Executive Board of World Health Assembly set to discuss disability at its next meeting

8 November 2012

WHO begins work on first-ever international Guidelines on health-related rehabilitation

4 October 2012

Pacific Disability Ministers Meeting hosted in Papua New Guinea

3 October 2012

World report on disability launched regionally in Pacific Islands

15 September 2012

Inaugural Forum on the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities (GPCwD) hosted in New York

14 September 2012

Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) seeks to improve the lives of women and children with disabilities

13 September 2012

WHO and UNICEF encourage discussion and action on early childhood development and disability

10 September

First consultations held to prepare High Level Meeting on Disability (HLMD)

8 July 2012

Wheelchair service training package launched

26 June 2012

Call for papers: Special issue on violence and disability in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence

15 June 2012

Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) the focus of meetings in the Pacific

30 May 2012

Sri Lanka launches the World Report on Disability

26 May 2012

WHO Director-General announces increased attention to disabilities

7 May 2012

World Bank hosts Disability and Development Core Course in Washington, DC

23 March

Invitation to contribute artwork for International perspectives on spinal cord injury

6 March 2012

Developing a national community-based rehabilitation (CBR) program in Malawi

22 February 2012

WHO issues call for papers: roundtable on violence against people with disabilities

23 February 2012

International Seminar on the implementation of the World report on disability held in Sao Paulo

31 January 2012

Update on national launches of the World report on disability

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