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Campaigners hold placards calling for better disability access on public transport in New York

14/08/2021 GMT

World Questions: Disability

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What are the challenges and opportunities facing disabled people across the globe?

What are the challenges and opportunities facing disabled people across the globe right now?

More than a billion people are disabled - that’s 15 percent of the world’s population. With a panel of leading disabled academics, campaigners and politicians, World Questions examines the challenges and opportunities facing disabled people across the globe right now.

Presenter: Scout Bassett, US Paralympic athlete

Panel:
Ambassador Catalina Devandas: Costa Rican ambassador to the United Nations (Geneva)
Yetnebersh Nigussie: Ethiopian disability rights campaigner (Kenya)
Baroness (Tanni) Grey-Thompson: Former Paralympic athlete (UK)
Judy Heumann: Campaigner and former advisor to President Obama (USA)

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Image: Disability rights protesters at a rally outside a New York courthouse, Credit: Erik McGregor/Getty Images)

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