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In this exclusive series of interviews, we speak to Javed Abidi (Chair, Disabled People's International DPI), Sir Philip Craven MBE (President, International Paralympic Committee IPC) and Professor Hugh Herr (Head of the…
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Disability is an impairment, but an impairment is not necessarily a disability. The interaction of an impairment with the social barriers that surround you may or may not turn that impairment into a disability. For example; I am a wheelchair user, and If I see a building in front of me with three steps, I cannot get into it. If I cannot get into it, it's not because I'm on a wheelchair; it's because the building has 3 steps. If the same building had a ramp, my wheelchair would not be an impairment and I could easily get into the building.
— Javed AbidiDisability Rights Activist & Founder of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People
The complexity of the topic combined with significant political and social blindness towards it, has led to disability becoming one of the most significant un-addressed issues of modern time.
— Javed AbidiDisability Rights Activist & Founder of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People
Disability – rather than being something looked upon as a 'condition', is really a phenomenon that occurs at a complex intersection between our humanity, policy, society, culture and the environment.
— Javed AbidiDisability Rights Activist & Founder of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People
Human beings can become impaired through physical, mental or sensory limitations; but that does not become a disability until that impairment stops them from participating in community life.
— Javed AbidiDisability Rights Activist & Founder of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People
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