Salamanca Statement
In June 1994 representatives of 92 governments and 25 international organisations formed the World Conference on Special Needs Education, held in Salamanca, Spain. They agreed a dynamic new Statement on the education of all disabled children, which called for inclusion to be the norm. In addition, the Conference adopted a new Framework for Action, the […]
International Year of the Disabled
International Year of the Disabled 1981 – An international conference in this year, which attempted to exclude disabled people from its discussion, led to the setting up of the first global network of disabled people known as ‘Disabled Peoples International’ with a slogan “Nothing About Us Without Us”.