well, today I am all loaded with good newses.
Here's some good news for diabetics.
People with Diabeted find voice through sport and United Nation.
The Disability in Sport program at the Center for the Study of Sport in Society today announced the formation of an International Disability in Sport Working Group. The group unites more than fourteen international organizations, including the center, in connection with the creation of the United Nations Treaty on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Program Director at the Disability in Sport Program Eli Wolff facilitated the meeting and will participate on behalf of the center.
"We are thrilled to bring international organizations together to address the rights of people with disabilities in the context of sport," says Wolff. "The time has come where we can openly and collaboratively address the needs of people with disabilities."
The working group will develop a variety of initiatives to address the rights of people with disabilities in sport. Their primary goals are to promote the advancement of human rights for people with disabilities as they relate to sport; monitor the status of people with a disabilities' right to sport in all regions of the world; develop and support research that enhances people with disabilities' human right to sport; and develop and support sport and physical activity programs for people with disabilities.
Elise Roy, human rights legal advisor for Sport in Society, has spent more than two years working with the center's Disability in Sports program to write an article on sport for inclusion in the U.N.'s Treaty.
"We have an amazing opportunity to use sport to change the way the world looks at people with disabilities," said Roy. "The work the UN and the center are doing will ensure that people with disabilities throughout the world are afforded these important rights."
The meeting will be held in New York City at the office of UNICEF on January 30, 2006.
About the Disability in Sport Program: Through research, education, and advocacy activities, the Disability in Sport program creates more access, equality, inclusion, opportunity, respect, and legitimacy for people with a disability in the sporting environment.
About Sport in Society: Founded in 1984 by Richard E. Lapchick, the Center for the Study of Sport in Society, utilizing the power and appeal of sport; works locally, nationally and globally to identify and address social problems in sport and in society. The center conducts research, develops programs that offers solutions, and educates and advocates on the emerging issues.
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