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    States News Service
    April 30, 2014 Wednesday


    OSCE OFFICE IN YEREVAN SUPPORTS ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

    YEREVAN

    The following information was released by the Organization for
    Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):

    Opportunities, problems and challenges of higher education for people
    with disabilities was the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable
    discussion today in Yerevan.

    The event is organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the Bridge of
    Hope NGO and the National Tempus Office in Armenia (funded by the EU),
    with the aim of creating a forum to exchange information and ideas to
    better serve the needs of disabled people.

    "The OSCE promotes inclusion as a tenet of democracy across its 57
    participating States. Access to education is particularly important
    especially for people with disabilities," said Oliver McCoy,
    Democratization Programme Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan. "I am
    pleased to participate in today's discussions and feel that this is
    the type of dialogue that needs to occur for Armenia's academic
    institutions to develop further."

    Today's discussion brings together representatives from various
    educational institutions of Armenia, as well as NGOs and ministries,
    to highlight the importance of ensuring access to inclusive education,
    social integration and the non-discrimination treatment of people with
    disabilities.

    Lana Karlova, Co-ordinator of the National Tempus Office in Armenia,
    added: "Tempus ASPIRE project promotes and develops educational
    opportunities for people with special needs. Through professional
    attitude at educational institutions a level of acceptance of those
    people will be increased in the society. The rights of people with
    individual needs should be ensured."

    The event is held to coincide with Armenia's national day on raising
    awareness on the right to education of people with disabilities, as
    part of the project on Access to Society for People with Individual
    Requirements (ASPIRE). The project has conducted various
    awareness-raising events in Armenian higher education institutions,
    co-ordinated by Eurasia International University.

    The OSCE Office in Yerevan supports activities aimed at increasing the
    capacity of youth to contribute to the development of representative
    and inclusive democracy in Armenia.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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