The year 1981 was proclaimed the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) by the United Nations. It called for a plan of action with an emphasis...
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International Year of Disabled Persons 1981 "International Day of Persons with Disabilities". Retrieved 4 December 2008. "The International Year of Disabled...
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Disability (redirect from Disabled persons)
Persons (1981), later renamed the International Year of Disabled Persons. Some disability activists used the Year to highlight various injustices, such...
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Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons. followed by the Declaration of the Rights of Disabled Persons on 9 December 1975. 1981 was the International Year of Disabled...
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Disabled Persons Railcard in 1981 to mark the International Year of Disabled Persons. Sir Peter Parker was Chairman of BR at the time and the British Railways...
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campaigner for disabled people, achieving dozens of groundbreaking political, economic, structural, transportation, and educational reforms for persons with disabilities...
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National Council on Disability Affairs (Philippines) (redirect from National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (Philippines))
the Welfare of Disabled Persons or NCWDP) is the national government agency mandated to formulate policies and coordinate the activities of all agencies...
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1980 for the UN International Year of Disabled Persons, and through these connections stated to gain United Nations (UN) recognition of DPI and some initial...
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The United Nations expanded the International Year of Disabled Persons to the International Decade of Disabled Persons (1983–1992). 1983 – The Job Accommodation...
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reduced in the case of disabled persons' heir. Up to 70 years of age – ¥60,000 per year (¥120,000 for specified disabled persons.) 1950 – The Local Tax...
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The China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF; Chinese: 中国残疾人联合会) is a people's organization for individuals with disabilities in China established in Beijing...
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Disability studies (redirect from Philosophy of disability)
of disability began following the disability rights movement, which arose in the 1950s. In 1981, the United Nations' International Year of Disabled Persons...
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children's TV show Blue Peter; during the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981), several episodes of Blue Peter featured a man named Joey Deacon...
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Ian Dury (category Alumni of the Royal College of Art)
Autisticus" – written to show his disdain for that year's International Year of Disabled Persons, which he saw as patronising and counter-productive –...
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wide concessionary bus fares for pensioners. During the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981, London Transport worked with disability groups...
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Jairos Jiri (section International awards)
in 1981. Rotary International presented him with their International Year of Disabled Person Award for Africa which carries the citation “Greatest Contribution...
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a protest against the International Year of Disabled Persons, which Dury considered to be patronising. Dury was himself disabled by polio contracted in...
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Rideau Hall (category Monarchy of Canada)
initiated by Gerda Hnatyshyn to mark the International Year of Disabled Persons, built in front of Rideau Hall, and dedicated to Terry Fox; and an inukshuk...
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Ōita Prefecture (category Prefectures of Japan)
commemorate the International Year of Disabled Persons. Ōita Prefecture is famous for its hot springs, particularly those in and around the city of Beppu. The...
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Nation's International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981. The name of GMCDP was in use from July 1984 onwards. Around half of the founder members of GMCDP...
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Alan Reich (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
the International Year of Disabled Persons, and Reich became president of the organization coordinating American activities in observance of the year: the...
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This is a list of commemorative postage stamps issued by the India Post between 1981 and 1990. "Indian Postage Stamps - Stamps released in 1989". Suresh...
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De Anza College (redirect from Euphrat Museum of Art)
' '1981 International Year of Disabled Persons,' Men and Children,' 'The Workplace/The Refuge,' 'Realism in Painting and Color,' ' Survey of Bay Area...
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Disability rights movement (redirect from Rights of disabled children)
the International Year of the Disabled Person, campaigners targeted beauty pageants such as the Miss Australia Quest in order to, in the words of activist...
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British Rail (redirect from Nationalisation of British Rail)
of their Network SouthEast sector in parts of Southern England Disabled Persons Railcard, introduced in 1981 to coincide with the International Year of...
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of UNESCO to celebrate the International Year of Disabled Persons. In 1982 the first of six issues of icographic/volume 2 was published on behalf of Icograda...
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Parasports (redirect from Disabled sport)
parasports are forms of adapted physical activities from existing non-disabled sports, while others have been specifically created for persons with a disability...
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Royal Christmas message (category Monarchy of the United Kingdom)
broadcast made by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms to the Commonwealth of Nations each year at Christmas. The tradition...
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was founded in the year 1980 leading up to the International Year of Disabled Persons to provide people with disabilities a voice of their own. In 2002...
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Frank Bowe (category Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development alumni)
the first person with a disability to represent any nation in the planning of the United Nations (UN) International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP-1981)...
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