Disability and the MDGs
Disability affects all eight of the MDGs, making it an issue central to reduction of poverty.
The 8 MDG's: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Promote gender equality and empower women

Disabled women and girls face a great deal of discrimination and disadvantage. The target of eliminating gender inequality in all levels of education by 2015 will not be reached without considering disability.

 Soap queen on honoured on TV. Somalatha is a soap maker who built a business that now employs her whole family, but before that she faced destitution twice.
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