International Day of Persons with Disabilities

This year's theme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 'Making the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world' - supports the message of challenging exclusion. It aims to highlight the need to continue to work for the mainstreaming of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and development if the MDGs of reducing poverty are to be achieved.