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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.