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    • UN in ACTION, an award-winning television series, reports on the work of the UN and its Agencies around the world. These 3- to 5-minute features illustrate UN peacekeeping efforts as well as projects aimed at reducing poverty and human suffering, fighting disease, providing humanitarian assistance and stimulating economic growth. The series consists of fifty seven pieces a year and is available free of rights to broadcasters. For more information, please contact Diane Barkley, barkley@un.org.
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Haiti: Paralympic Athlete Brings Hope To A Nation

The Pascale Toussaint rehabilitation centre opened in northern Haiti to provide physical rehabilitation for paraplegic patients, many from the 2010 earthquake. One of them, Leon Gensly who lost the use of his legs during the quake is now competing to qualify for London 2012 Paralympic Games. UNIA program # 1332 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1332.pdf

Date:24 January 2012
Programme number:1332
Duration:00:03:47

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