Cerebral Palsy

Picture: Nasar T KStaff ReporterAchieving human rights for disabled people is a great endeavour which crosses national boundaries and continents, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie Booth, said yesterday.Booth, the co-chair of Shafallah Center’s Second Annual International Forum on Children with Special Needs, was delivering the keynote address.

Patron of British disability organisation Scope, Booth began by stating that the Forum had rightly focused on the recent and historic UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and in particular Article 8 on ‘Raising Public Awareness.’She observed that the sessions during the conference has explored how perceptions of disability were formed and transformed through media, education and t...

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