December 3, 1992. The end of the Decade of Disabled Persons, which is marked with the proclamation by the UN of December 3rd as the first International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The decade began after the International Year of Disabled Persons, in 1981.

The General Assembly adopted the "Tallinn Guidelines for Action on Human Resources Development in the Field of Disability" in 1989. This included promoting inclusion, participation, and employment of persons with disabilities in all levels of government and in policy making in order to create equal opportunities on an international level.

The World Health Organization estimated that near 10% of the world's population have some form of disability. The goal of the Decade of Disabled Persons is to help people gain awareness on how to integrate people with disabilities onto an equal level in all aspects of life, as opposed to the kind of segregation imposed on people with disabilities during the eugenics movement.

-Erna Kurbegovic and Colette Leung

• United Nations. (n.d.). United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons 1983-1992. United Nations enable. (Website). Retrieved from http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=127.

• International Day of Persons with Disabilities-December 3. (n.d.). Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses. Retrieved from http://www.oaith.ca/action/equitycalendar/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities.html