| | Features service articles - International Day of Disabled Persons 2005 - Disabled people in Ethiopia: Making public ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Earlier this year, the President of Ethiopia officially opened the first of 30 modern public shower and toilet facilities run by a cooperative of disabled persons in Addis Ababa with the support of the ILO. |
 | | The ILO promotes equality of opportunity and treatment for persons with disabilities in vocational rehabilitation, training and employment, as reflected in ILO Convention No. 159 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation of Employment of Disabled Persons, 1983, and the ILO Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace adopted in 2001. |
 | | The public toilet project in Addis Ababa not only helps to overcome barriers which disabled people face in getting jobs and taking their place in society, it also makes public services work for the rest of the poor", concludes Barbara Murray, ILO Senior Specialist on Disability. |
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