Biggest disability rights campaign launched before Paralympics vaticannews.va

Several leading international organizations have joined hands to launch a decade-long campaign, slated to be the biggest ever global human rights movement that aims to empower the world's 1.2 billion people with disabilities and advance their human rights.

Spearheaded by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and International Disability Alliance (IDA), the campaign called WeThe15 kicked off on Thursday, less than a week ahead of the opening of the Tokyo Paralympics on August 24. The campaign derives its name from the 15 per cent of the global population who live with disabilities, according to estimates by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)…

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