Children with disabilities in South Africa: The hidden reality is part of a multiple-country study conducted by ACPF. The study seeks to analyse how cultural, social, physical and other societal barriers prevent children with disabilities from enjoying their constitutional rights to equality, freedo...m and human dignity. It also seeks to establish opportunities and practices that could be used to address these barriers to enhance disabled children’s participation in society.
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Accessibility is by law; not just a favour. The booklet contains what the laws say about physical accessibility and their interpretation
Unite for Children
First Edition
Legislative and Policy analysis and recommendations for reform
This report documents different approaches to conservation of medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Bolipara union of Thanchi upazila of Bandarban hill district. This initiative involved the collection of baseline data on medicinal plants and their uses, motivating people towards the uses an...d practices, identification and knowledge sharing with the traditional healers, establishment of an electronic database and carrying out specific conservation measures and awareness activities. This document also provides a number of recommendations to ensure sustainability of such initiatives for safeguarding medicinal plants and indigenous knowledge associated with them. We sincerely hope that this account will be useful to the people interested in medicinal plants, especially in developing countries.
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Country Progress Report January 2008 - December 2009
CBR Advisory Working Group | Co-ordinator: Karen Heinicke-Motsch
HTC COUNTRY REPORT | LESOTHO
13280–13285 / PNAS / September 9, 2008 / vol. 105 / no. 36