Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Sri Lankan people. It includes Sri Lankan people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from Sri Lanka .
The main causes for disability in Sri Lanka are poor hygiene, lack of medical care, the prevalence of 30 years of war, the aftereffects of the 2004 tsunami, and an increase in accidents. [ 2 ] About 1.6 million Sri Lankans, 8% of the population, were regarded as disabled in 2012.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001: Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine and Social Services [24] [25] Sumedha G. Jayasena: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 April 2004: Minister of Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare [26] [27] [28] Douglas Devananda: Eelam People's Democratic Party: 23 November 2005: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Classification: People: By nationality: Sri Lanka ... Sri Lankan people with disabilities (4 C, 3 P) E. People by educational institution in Sri Lanka (2 C, ...
Sri Lankan people with disabilities (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Disability in Sri Lanka" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Special pages
Disability rights activist Lex Frieden has stated, "That was the first time that millions of people were exposed to disability rights as the number one story". [26] These milestones were a major change in reducing exclusion and invisibility for people with disabilities. Ouch!
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975) is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.