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The European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Better Heath, Better Lives outlines ten priorities for action aimed at ensuring healthy and full lives for these children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to provide background information and offer pragmatic steps in relation to priority no. 3: “Transfer care from institutions to the community”. The paper was produced in preparation for the conference in Bucharest, Romania 26-27 November, 2010.
The paper includes a statement on the impact of…
There is no entirely reliable data available on anti-personnel landmines, either on the extent of their use or on the injuries and deaths they have caused; however, it is estimated that landmines kill or injure 24,000 people a year, or one person every 20 minutes. It is estimated that there are 300,000 landmine survivors: for example, one in every 415 Angolans has a landmine injury.
Over the last four decades landmines have been laid, randomly but in vast numbers, to terrorize local communities. Most affected have been countries and regions that are predominantly poor and where the…