1 out of every 10
people worldwide is
living with a disability.
The UN estimates that 650 million people--or 10 percent of the world's population--are living with disabilities. While some countries have acted to ensure disabled people are granted all the same rights as everyone else, the vast majority have not--until now. A landmark new treaty "will call the attention inside each country to a problem of many, many years of invisibility," says Gilberto Rincón, president of the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination in Mexico. You'll find that in today's news section, along with a series of reports and dispatches on the conflicts in Oaxaca, Mexico, and more.

In the features section, we learn how to build our own electricity-generating wind turbine, and in analysis, a U.S.-based group discusses what it takes to put women on equal footing with men around the world, as Women's Equality Day was celebrated this weekend. Plus, as the world remembers the victims of Hurricane Katrina, many of whom were extremely poor and without a voice in American society, take the pledge to remember their plight by helping to end extreme poverty today. That's in today's action alert section.

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