international refugee day

On the occasion of International Refugee Day a guest blog on the Landmine and Cluster Munition Blog:

Disability comes in various forms – mobility, vision, hearing, sensual – and affects people of all walks of life. Refugees are no exception: on the contrary, they represent as much a kaleidoscope of society as any other realm of life. What is more: wars, armed conflict and other causes of humanitarian crisis as well as situations of risk can often lead to animpairment, including by landmines, cluster munitions or other explosive remnants of war.

Impairments and physical and social barriers combined, result indisabilities. A “Chronically normal person” is a label that can be attributed to those persons who believe that they do not have an impairment of any sort.

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