Disabled should be tapped as agents of change

Disabled should be tapped as agents of change

NEW YORK, United States - Akiko Fukuda, the secretary general of the World Federation of the Deafblind, speaks at the U.N. headquarters in New York, the United States on Dec. 3, 2014. She pressed the international community to include the perspectives of the disabled in devising plans for disaster preparedness.

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