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U.N. pact on disabled rights signed (AP)
Filed: March 30th 2007: World

AP - Eighty countries signed the United Nations convention enshrining the rights of the world’s 650 million disabled on Friday in what the U.N. human rights chief called an unprecedented show of support to empower the physically and mentally impaired.

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