Sindh government has forgotten to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities, supposed to be celebrated on December 3, 2011, Business Recorder learnt on Saturday. The whole world has attaches great social importance to this international day of persons with disabilities and observes it with overwhelming ways but unfortunately Sindh government's Special Education Department ignored it and nothing was organised in this regard.
The purpose of the day is to enhance sympathies with people who are physically and mentally disabled as they would feel that they are also very important people of the society. It seems that provincial government was sleeping deeply on December 3, and it did not organise a single activity to express significance of this internationally recognised day of persons with disabilities.
"The provincial Special department which has been strengthened more after the devolution of Federal Ministry of Special education so that it was expected that international day would have been celebrated", an official of department said. In contrast to other special days, Special education has not organised a single seminar, no dinners, no fun-filled events, no rallies, no media campaign, and the internationally recognised the day has been passed like any other normal day.
Experts told Business Recorder that persons with disabilities make up an estimated 15 percent of the world's population. Almost one-fifth of estimated global total of persons, living with disabilities, or between 110-190 million, encounter significant difficulties. A quarter of the global population is directly affected by disability, as care-givers or family members, he added. Persons with disabilities encounter many disadvantages in their societies and are often subjected to stigma and discrimination. They remain largely marginalised, disproportionately poorer, frequently unemployed and have higher rates of mortality, they added.
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