Key messages for IDPD 2015

• People with disabilities are scientists, sportsmen and women, lawyers, university professors, actors and actresses, musicians, stand up (or sitting) comedians, politicians and anything else you can imagine.
  
• People with disabilities have been able to make amazing contributions to our societies in all domains. They often bring an approach and perspective that is different because of the ways we have overcome barriers – ways which make lives better nor just for us but for everyone.
• WHO fully support and welcome a society that embraces diversity in all its forms and shapes: LGBT, ethnic, gender identity, indigenous origin, belief, color and disability.
• Not all people with disabilities see their impairment in the same way.
• People with disabilities are not only a very large group, but a very diverse one.
• People with disabilities should have access to health and social services they need, including public health services that prevent injury and illness.
• These services be provided in a respectful manner that recognizes that our lives are meaningful and valuable with the impairments we have.  We should never turn into a society that fears and attacks diversity and human difference.