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Lawyers get socially involved: The Right to Read

“Imagine life without books, without having anything to read. Wouldn’t it get suffocating?” asks Moiz Tundawala, a visually impaired student...

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Celebrating 5 Years of CIS

Download all the posters exhibited during the recent exhibition here. As a move to promote transparency, CIS is inviting the...

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Right to Read Campaign, Chennai

Right to Read Campaign – An Overview Fast Facts At least three hundred million people around the world with sight...

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Summary of Judgements on Disability Rights

Supreme Court Decisions Deaf Employees Welfare Association v Union of India[1]This petition was filed seeking a Writ of Mandamus directing...

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Banking and Accessibility in India: A Report by CIS

Executive Summary India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and...

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Central Guidelines and Schemes

Certification of Disability 1.1 The Persons with Disabilities Amendment Rules, 2009[1] provide detailed guidelines for issue of disability certificates. The...

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Your Signature Could Help 70 Million Read

Dr Sam Taraporevala has a vision Picture this: You are on a lazy weekend getaway with easy access to a...

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ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ବୁର୍ଲା (ସମ୍ବଲପୁର)

A picture of the participants from the Odia wikipedia workshop held on July 26 and 27, 2013 The Centre for...

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What Women Want: The ability debates

Poonam Natarajan, National Trust (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment) The triumphs and disasters of the differently-abled in India are...

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U.S. support sought for treaty to allow blind people access to copyrighted works

Mahesh Kumar A/AP – Visually impaired children participate in a performance depicting the birth of Jesus Christ during Christmas celebrations...

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US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books

Blind Indonesian women read the Koran in braille. Photograph: Dedi Sahputra/EPA This article by Paige McClanahan was published in the...

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The Option To Read

I  was inaugurating the Right to Read Campaign‘s first Indian “road show” in Loyola College, Chennai, a couple of weeks...

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