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Podcast: The JD Dragon Disability Rights Podcast: Exploring how disability and diversity are connected
Episode: Empowering People with Disabilities Despite Facing great Challenges in Greece and Turkey. How can we empower them?
Description: People with Disabilities have often faced great challenges when it comes to gaining political empowerment due to stigma and the fact that the political world values strength and the reality of many campaign  venues may be inaccessible to wheelchair-users among other factors. That doesn't mean that its impossible as we'll see today even in countries where disability is  stigmatized such as Greece and Turkey  people with disabilities are able to hold government office and use their disability to help raise awareness about disability people and their rights. Hopefully we can learn from them and empower with disabilities in other parts of...