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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Global Movement Aims To Improve Lives Of People With Disabilities</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Multiple leading international organizations have united to launch WeThe15, a global movement that aspires to be the biggest ever human rights movement to
represent 1.2 billion persons with disabilities gloabally.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">UAE: Partnership Provides Children with Books in Accessible Formats</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Kalimat Foundation in partnership with two other UAE-based organizations has provided children aged five to twelve years with books in accessible formats under
its ‘Ara’ (I See) initiative to empower and facilitate their access to knowledge and learning.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
<a href="https://gaates.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9e95602d3d7209e71c920bfa&id=7569d04b75&e=6b6416efd0" target="_blank">Learn more about the Ara Initiative</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">US National Parks Work on Accessibility Improvements </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are working on an Accessibility Self-Evaluation and Transition plan to enhance the accessibility that enables persons
to discover, understand, and enjoy a range of experiences.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have tested a prosthetic robotic hand, designed with a system
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In her latest blog for the G3ict website, Susanna Laurin writes about the FEAT Project carried out by Funka that aims to change how the authoring tool market
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Every month, we highlight a country's performance according to G3ict's </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><a href="https://gaates.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9e95602d3d7209e71c920bfa&id=ba791c92e6&e=6b6416efd0" target="_blank">Digital
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">a unique resource for advocates and policy makers to benchmark progress in ICT accessibility around the world.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Africa:
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">DARE Index Score: 27/100</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Global Ranking: 91</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Regional Ranking: 18</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Peer Economic Development Group Ranking: 13</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Implementation Ranking: 109</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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