"Lets create a single global voice for advocating for the rights, inclusion and well-being of people with Down syndrome," the organizers wrote on their website.
Although human rights activists had hoped for stronger enforcement mechanisms, they see it as a significant step in the right direction.The inclusion of "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as unacceptable grounds for discrimination aroused the passions of the Orthodox Church.
Fourteen patients were excluded because of excessive missing data (e.g drop-out right after inclusion before beginning CBT), three patients were excluded because of questionable clinical significance of their PD at the time of inclusion, and one patient was excluded due to non-Caucasian ancestry.
In our Bill of Rights, its inclusion an insistence by Jefferson to proceed with ratification of the Constitution, there are many rights that we, today, hold sacrosanct, such as freedom of speech and religion, and right to a trial of our peers if accused.
The President of Malawi has proven to be a champion for the rights of people with disabilities and in her first few weeks in office, passed a landmark Disability Act, enshrining into law equal rights and inclusion policies for people with disabilities in Malawi and also ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2013.
Rights, justice, inclusion, equality and respect are for people, not for beliefs and parallel legal systems.
"Clearly the LBGT community has got various states of rights and inclusion in society, but there is still much to be done.
However, I fear we are about to go backwards on decades of hard-fought victories which secured disabled people's rights and inclusion in society.
As part of our week, Reclaiming Our Futures, DPAC is delivering our manifesto, which is a reassertion for rights, for inclusion.
