June 9, 2011 - Launch of the World Report on Disability at the United Nations, New York
Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO (In the middle)
Following the Launch of the World Report on Disability, a panel discussion was held at the United Nation, New York.
September 14, 2011 - Launch of the World Report on Disability at World Bank InfoShop, Washington, DC
Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Vice President & Head of Network, Human Development Network, World Bank (Left) chaired the Launch of the World Report on Disability at InfoShop.
Alana Officer, Coordinator, Disability and Rehabilitation, World Health Organization (WHO) (In the middle)
January 12, 2012 - Launch of the World Report on Disability in Quito, Ecuador
María Dolores Arribas Baños, resident representative for the World Bank in Ecuador (Left)
Hearing directly from people with disabilities about their lives is vital to good research and effective policy. In this series of short films we learn from Rachel, a nurse with disability from the United Kingdom about the obstacles she has overcome in her career; we discover why Faustina, from Tanzania, feels that wheelchairs are so important to people with disabilities; Mia, from Lebanon, shares her experience of discrimination in education; and we hear about the efforts of Feliza, from Bolivia, to promote accessibility in her home town. Each film relates to a different chapter of the World report on disability, launched on 9 June 2011 in New York. Blind aboriginal musician Geoffrey Yunupingu Gurrumul has supplied the soundtrack to the films.
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"What's disability to me" series of videos
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