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UN Panel Commemorates World Autism Awareness Day

1 April 2014

Executive Director of the WHO Office at the UN, Dr. Jacob Kumaresan, speaking at today's special high-level panel discussion on ""Autism: Awareness to action - Models of collaboration between UN agencies and local communities"" on the occasion of World Autism Awareness Day 2014. The event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Bangladesh, Chile, India, Nigeria, Qatar, the United States and the organization Autism Speaks. To the left is Akito Ito, Chief of the Secretariat for the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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