Jobs for the Disabled Will Boost Growth - UN

About 80 percent of people with disabilities are of working age and face social, economic and cultural obstacles to accessing education and employment, says the UN.

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A young woman disabled by polio, her t-shirt reads: 'Disability is NOT inability'. Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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