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Carlos Vasquez is a master of video fighting game Mortal Kombat despite being unable to see the action on screen because he is blind. The Texas resident — who relies on sound to time punches, kicks and dodges — is among a chorus of voices calling for better access to gaming for people with disabilities.
After passing a lengthy process of tests and training, a Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) civil servant candidate who has a history of brain aneurysm was dismissed from the agency following his probation period after he was declared physically unfit for the job, despite medical checkups declaring him capable.
Inclusiveness, interaction, inspiration are just some of the "ins" of the inaugural InklusiFest 2020, which draws together participants living with and without disabilities in virtual events aimed to share and learn – and a chance at breaking a national record together.
The coalition also claimed the omnibus law embodied an "epistemic crime" by using the term cacat (handicapped) to describe people with disabilities, a step back in the efforts to foster respect and equality for them.
The National Coalition Working Group on the Implementation of the Law on People with Disabilities argued that some provisions in Presidential Regulation No. 68/2020 contradicted at least four prevailing laws.
Jang Hye-yeong stands out in a legislature where 83 percent of MPs are over 50 and only 19 percent are women -- a figure that would place the South at 116th in the latest Inter-Parliamentary Union global ranking. Now she is taking on the country's deep-seated patriarchy and religious conservatism -- including powerful megachurches that condemn homosexuality -- by drawing up a new anti-discrimination bill.
