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Sierra Leone: Between the Bo Sign Language Training Workshop, Human Rights And Development

Posted by sociolingo on May 6, 2008

Source: AllAfrica.com

Probably, no other issue has been as perplexing and persistent in the deaf community in Sierra Leone as the question of how to integrate the rights of deaf people into human rights and development works at the national and community levels, which is why the Bo sign language workshop organized by El Shammah Mission Sierra Leone between the 13th and 15th March 2008 highlighting the position of sign language used by the deaf people in the country from a standpoint of basic need and basic right must be considered unique.

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