Disability

BELGRADE - Around 20,000 people may be left jobless in 2015 in the search for a solution to the fate of restructuring companies and the National Employment Service of Serbia (NSZ) is willing to include them in the active employment policy measures, NSZ Director Zoran Martinovic stated on Monday.

An orthopedics company in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir has rehabilitated more than 700 animals that were left paralyzed or unable to walk because of accidents by giving them prostheses or orthotic replacements.

The board chairman of the company, Niyazi Çapa, said they have been producing prostheses, orthotics, orthopedics and walkers for paralyzed humans since 1976.  

Thousands of activists marched in Istanbul in support of the right to education and healthcare for people with disabilities, while urging for more publicly accessible spaces on Nov. 30, ahead of the International Day of People with Disabilities, held annually on Dec. 3.

For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the 2012 London Paralympics were broadcast live by Channel 4, and the event was advertised in the U.K. media with a campaign introducing the athletes as “The Superhumans.”

BELGRADE - A hundred and twenty-six people have been stripped of disability pensions so far as part of a review process after being found to have claimed the pensions fraudulently, Minister of Labour, Employment, Social and Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin said on Tuesday.

Almost 90% of the people with disabilities in Bulgaria are unemployed said the head of the Agency for disabled people Mincho Koralski at a round table on integration in Sofia.

According to Koralski, quoted by News.bg, the main reason for this was within the society, which was still not tolerant to the different people, no matter what their difference is.

More than 8,200 people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities in Croatia are being kept in segregated institutions and psychiatric hospitals with little control over decisions that affect their lives, international campaign group Human Rights Watch said in the new report published on Monday.

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We will put stop to embezzlement of state funds in Kosovo

BELGRADE -- ''The Government will put a stop to all embezzlements of state funds in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM)'', the Minister of Labour and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said.

The placard behind a motorcycle used by a disabled man in Turkey’s southeastern province of Adıyaman states: “I don’t need people who tell me what to do, I need people who will walk with me.” This summarizes the story of Serkan Aslan, the head of the Disability Association in the province’s Kahra district.

The placard behind a motorcycle used by a disabled man in Turkey’s southeastern province of Adıyaman states: “I don’t need people who tell me what to do, I need people who will walk with me.” This summarizes the story of Serkan Aslan, the head of the Disability Association in the province’s Kahra district.