Guest Editorial: Human Security, Social Cohesion, and Disability

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Anita Ghai

Keywords

developing countries, poverty, cohesion

Abstract

The editorial underscores the issues of security in disabled people in context of poverty. The submission is that disabled people are not considered equal, as globalizing forces dominate the paradigm of profit.
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