Brief History
> ILO Convention No. 159-requires all member countries to formulate,
implement and periodically review a nation policy on vocational
rehabilitation and employment of disabled person.
> Magna Carta for Disabled Persons (RA7277)- an act for the
rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance persons an their
interrogation into the mainstream of society.
> UN-ESCAP Declaration of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disable
Person, 1993-2002- gives fresh impetus to implementation of the
World Programmed of Action Concerning Disabled Persons in the ESCAP
region beyond 1992.
> Proclamation No. 125- mandates the nationwide observance in the
Philippines of the Asian and Pacific Decade of disabled Person,
1993-2002.
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