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Voice of 3.5 million people with disabilities among the world's 35 million displaced people

posted: June 22, 2008

New York

Carolyn Makinson, Executive Director of the Women's Commission, said, "Being uprooted from one's home is an enormous challenge in itself, but refugees with disabilities face even greater hardship and isolation and are all but forgotten by their communities and by the world."

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