MaximsNewsNetwork: CHINA: DISABILITIES & DISCRIMINATION: UNTV

Posted on Dec 20, 2009 in Caring for children | 0 comments

remain about their disabilities. A United Nations report estimates that ten percent of the worlds population or 650 million people have disabilities. Often, society sees persons with disabilities as asexual, unfit and incapable of caring for children. But these assumptions are inaccurate. People with disabilities have the same desires, hopes and dreams as everyone else. In December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a landmark treaty that gives greater rights to …