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Americans with Disabilities Act: 25 years later Funding restricts some ADA compliance in historic buildings

Since the Americans with Disabilities Act was established 25 years ago, the state of area buildings compliant for those with disabilities has made progress, but more recognition is needed, said Ralph ...
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Building disability-inclusive societies in the COVID context and beyond

There are only eight years left for the world to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With 185 ratifications to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ...
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EGM on Building a Disability-Inclusive, Accessible and Sustainable post-COVID-19 World

UNDESA/DISD and UN-Women/DIIP in collaboration with the UN Inter-Agency Support Group on the CRPD (IASG-CRPD), organiozed an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) entitled: “The Participation and Leadership of ...

Disability 'work experience' charity to 'rejuvenate' building with lottery cash

The Vision 25 charity says classrooms, a studio and workshop will help people with mental and physical disabilities to ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Building Bridges: A Disability Town Hall scheduled for July 31

The Lackawanna County Disability Action Committee will sponsor “Building Bridges: A Disability Town Hall” from 1-3 p.m. on July 31 at the Lackawanna County Trolley Museum, 300 Cliff St., Scranton. The ...
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Building Bridges: A disability town hall

SCRANTON, Pa. — Advocates for people with disabilities filled this room inside the Lackawanna County Trolley Museum for the first-ever Building Bridges event. This week marks 35 years since the ...