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    UN Experts Focus on Haiti’s Disabled

    By Tarra Quismundo // 08 March 2010

    The United Nations has assembled a group of U.N. human rights experts to look into how the international community could better respond to the needs of differently abled Haitians and disabled persons in other countries stricken by natural disasters.

    The U.N. said March 5 in a statement that the experts would look into how the needs of the disabled could be addressed under relief and reconstruction plans for Haiti, where a Jan. 12 quake killed some 200,000 and injuired scores of others.

    Following a meeting in Geneva late February, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities had underlined the need to include the disabled in making decisions on post-disaster social and economic development.

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      Tarra Quismundo joined Devex Manila as a staff writer in October 2009 after more than six years of working as a reporter for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a nationwide daily, for which she covered major breaking news in politics, military, police and international affairs. Tarra's Devex News coverage focuses on key Asian donors and top aid officials around the globe.

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