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Children with special needs
Despite governments signing up to many a convention and seemingly supporting international guidelines on children with special needs, prejudices and exclusion still form part of everyday life for many children with special needs around the world.
 

special_needs.jpg The principle of ‘inclusive education’ put forward at the UNESCO-convened Salamanca conference in 1994 has been a major step forward, but a lot remains to be done.

Disease is not only the greatest cause of child death in the developing world, but it creates with it, particularly in the case of HIV/AIDS, a whole range of sub-issues, from special needs to discrimination and school absenteeism. Consider some HIV/AIDS statistics alone: 38 million people worldwide have HIV/AIDS, 2.3 million of them are children; and 12 million children in Africa alone are AIDS orphans.

For an overview of current projects, select a region from the list below:> More about the World Conference on Special Needs Education 1994

Since 1992, ther projects for children with special needs have been carried out in the following countries:

Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cuba, Egypt, India, PDR Lao, Mexico, Morocco, Russia, Uganda, Vietnam.

Photo: Special needs children in France ©UNESCO/F. Jouval





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