BEIJING - China has established federations for disabled persons in 40,385 townships and township-level residential districts, or 97 percent of such districts, the China Disabled Persons Federation (CDPF) said Sunday. Related readings: Mentally disabled workers well treated Blind men play Chinese chess China shines a light on the disabled Para Games a boon for residents of Guangzhou The number of townships and residential districts with disabled persons federations increased by 907 from a year earlier, a CDPF official said. The official said disabled persons federations at all levels will make use of volunteers to better help disabled people this year. The CDPF will focus on the recruitment and training of volunteers, he added. Disabled people across China have received more income and better welfare and public and rehabilitation services over the past five years, the CDPF said last month. Government spending on programs for the disabled in the 2006-2011 period more than doubled compared with the previous five years. China has 83 million disabled people. The number is expected to top 100 million within the next five years. The CDPF is the central government-approved social organization that manages disabled people affairs.
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Alexander Mogilny Jersey Angels · USC · UCLA · Clippers · High Schools · MLB · NBA · NFL · NHL · College football · ENTERTAINMENT · Movies · Television · Music · Celebrity · Arts & Culture · Company Town · Calendar · The Envelope · Hot List A view of an entrance of the United Nations multi-agency compound near Herat, Afghanistan,?November 5, 2009. [Agencies] UNITED NATIONS: The former deputy UN envoy to Afghanistan, US diplomat Peter Galbraith, said on Thursday that he has launched legal action against the United Nations for firing him without any justification. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dismissed Galbraith in September after the veteran US official publicly accused his boss, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, of playing down reports of widespread fraud in an August presidential election. Ban gave no explanation at the time but issued a statement thanking Galbraith for his hard work and professional dedication and recognizing his important contributions to the work of the (UN) mission. It said that Ban made the decision to sack Galbraith in the best interest of the United Nations. I want accountability, Galbraith told Reuters in a telephone interview. I was dismissed for no reason at all in circumstances where I was simply doing what everybody would understand should have been my job - trying to support the holding of honest elections in Afghanistan. Related readings: Roadside bomb kills five Afghan police - official Afghan official: 8 killed in suicide bombing US may start Afghan transition before July 2011 U.S. public support for Afghan war grows Gates: Afghan relationship will begin to change There was no due process, he said, adding that he was not pushing to be reinstated but to get justice. It is virtually impossible to sue the United Nations in standard courts but there are internal legal avenues within the United Nations system to resolve employment disputes, avenues that Galbraith said he would pursue. A UN spokesman confirmed that Galbraith had initiated legal proceedings. He also dismissed a New York Times report that cited UN officials as saying that he had proposed involving the White House in a plan to replace Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the wake of August elections that were riddled with fraud. Galbraith did not deny he had supported such an idea. He insisted, however, that it was not only constitutional but had been raised by Eide in a meeting with diplomats. In October Kai Eide himself proposed that Karzai should be removed, he said. It requires a lot of chutzpah for him to (allege) that I was proposing he be removed, when he proposed it, not internally, but to the diplomats assembled in Kabul. The UN press office had no immediate response when asked about Galbraiths allegation regarding Eide. He also pointed to what he described as the dubious legality of Karzais mandate in the autumn. Karzais term had expired in May and was extended until August by the Afghan Supreme Court to avoid a power vacuum. Karzais term was over, Galbraith said. We had internal discussions about what to do, how to avoid a constitutional crisis. UN officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, had a different version. They said that what Galbraith was advocating was tantamount to a coup and was roundly rejected by Eide, other senior UN officials and the United States. He (Galbraith) publicly advocated for nonconstitutional regime change in a country to which he had been posted, a UN official told Reuters. US State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States never encouraged discussion of alternatives to Afghanistans constitutional electoral process although he noted that many ideas had been floated by various officials. The UN officials said the proposal, which infuriated Karzai, played a role in Bans decision to sack Galbraith, who was known to be close to US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke. Galbraith said the United Nations had been embarrassed by his public denunciations of the fraudulent Afghan elections and was now trying to change the subject. He also pointed to repeated public praise of him by senior UN officials after he mentioned to Eide in September that Karzai could step aside. Lets be real, he said. Would they have made those statements ... if Id been proposing a coup? Eide, who has faced accusations of ineffectivness and playing down voter fraud, plans to leave his post early next year. His two-year term ends in March. ' ' '
