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Polling stations will be accessible to people who are blind in the January 30 election in the Indian state of Punjab.
For the first time, the ballot papers will be offered in Braille.
“The ballot paper for blind people has …
This next installment includes a follow up to Oregon’s use of iPads in elections, the largest protest in 10 years in Taiwan, how a donation changed a young girl’s life, and more.
1. According to an article on Government Technology …
The House of Representatives of the world’s fourth-most populated country ratified the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Tuesday.
When the treaty was formed in 2006, Indonesia was the ninth out of 83 countries to sign …
A recent National Public Radio report investigates the isolation and unique challenges of Indonesia’s people with mental disabilities.
One of the individuals profiled in the report, Nenjah, a 35-year-old man with schizophrenia, spent nearly a decade chained to a concrete pit, …
As part of new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s plan to cut costs amid Japan’s massive budget deficit, the country’s government is looking to empty 70,000 psychiatric beds and significantly reduce its 1.8 trillion yen ($23.5 billion) annual mental-health budget.
This is …
China passes first mental health law
China recently passed its first national law protecting the civil rights of its estimated 100 million people with mental illnesses.
The law, approved October 19, requires mental institutions to protect their patients private health records, according to an article in …