A major international disability arts and human rights festival set to take place during the London 2012 Paralympics has had to be cancelled, after the venue where it was being staged was forced into administration.
The Together! 2012 festival had been due to include a conference on how the UN disability convention can be used to [...]
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The UN disability convention is breathing new life into grassroots disabled people’s organisations across the world, leading Commonwealth figures have heard.
They were at a meeting in central London held to mark the fourth anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), and to discuss what progress had been made in [...]