United Nations Internet sites on Disability

               This page contains links to Internet sites specifically dedicated to disability. Under each of the headings, the organizations and agencies are listed.

    Disability and Development

• United Nations Global Programme on Disability
• World Bank
• Second Asian and Pacific Decade for Disabled Persons, 2003-2012[ESCAP]
• Asian Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002 [ESCAP]

    Disability and Human Rights

• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR]

    Disability and Education

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]

    Disability and Health

• Disability and rehabilitation [WHO]
• Mental Health in Primary Care [WHO]
• The Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence of the World Health Organization has a site on mental health and brain disorders 
• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health [WHO]

    Disability Definition and Statistics

• United Nations Statistics Divisions, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• International Seminar on Measurement of Disability, New York 4-6 June 2001

    Disability and the World of Work

• International Labor Organization [ILO]

     Children with Disability

• Programme on Child Protection : children with disabilities [UNICEF]

     Rural Disabled

• Database on the Rural Disabled [FAO]

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