CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Jakarta, Indonesia. Asia and the Pacific is home to more than 700 million persons with disabilities who face significant barriers to full and effective participation in society.

Detailed explanation-2: -In order to provide a time frame during which Governments and organizations could implement the activities recommended in the World Programme of Action, the General Assembly proclaimed 1983-1992 the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons*.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Incheon strategy provides the Asian and Pacific region, and the world, with the first set of regionally agreed disability-inclusive development goals. It comprises 10 goals, 27 targets and 62 indicators, including ensuring disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and management.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the regional level, the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (also known as the Incheon Strategy) was launched in late 2012 to chart the new course of action for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013–2022.