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Article

5 Dec 2007

Author:
Associated Press

UN chief calls for end to job discrimination against disabled people

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the "deplorable" job discrimination against millions of disabled people around the world...estimates show that at least half of all disabled people in developed nations, and the vast majority of those in developing countries are unemployed...Chris Sullivan, a vice president of Merrill Lynch who was born hearing impaired, told a news conference he is program manager for the company's Special Needs Financial Services Group, which he called "the only program offered by a full service financial firm to serve the special needs market."