{"id":40540,"date":"2021-08-18T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40540"},"modified":"2021-08-18T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:06:12","slug":"can-the-paralympics-bring-lasting-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40540","title":{"rendered":"Can the Paralympics bring lasting change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Paralympic Games opens in Tokyo next week with more than 4,000 disabled athletes from around the world taking part. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ahead of the event, the International Paralympic Committee is launching a new campaign called &#8216;WeThe15&#8217;. Its aim is to improve the lives of the 15% of the world&#8217;s population who have a disability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Figures show that globally many people with a disability live in poverty and struggle to access education and employment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">So what is needed to bring about meaningful change for disabled people and what role can the Paralympics play in raising awareness and changing attitudes?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Paul Carter <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Katie Inman<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and Edited by David Cheeseman<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-58260253\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paralympic Games opens in Tokyo next week with more than 4,000 disabled athletes from around the world taking part. Ahead of the event, the International Paralympic Committee is launching a new campaign called &#8216;WeThe15&#8217;. Its aim is to improve the lives of the 15% of the world&#8217;s population who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120023255_p09slw82.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}