{"id":23789,"date":"2024-09-23T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T09:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23789"},"modified":"2024-09-23T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:01:02","slug":"sign-languages-day-over-70-million-deaf-people-worldwide-80-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/sign-languages-day-over-70-million-deaf-people-worldwide-80-in-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign Languages Day: Over 70 million deaf people worldwide, 80% in developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; On occasion of International Sign Languages Day, the United Nations has reported that there are over 70 million deaf individuals worldwide, with 80% residing in developing countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Monday, the UN highlighted that these individuals use more than 300 different sign languages to communicate with one another.<\/p>\n<p>The UN emphasized the importance of early access to sign language education and the provision of quality services as vital for the advancement of deaf individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The report also pointed out that International Sign Languages Day serves as an opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural diversity of the deaf community.<\/p>\n<p>International Sign Languages Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2018, to promote the protection of sign languages and raise awareness about their significance.<\/p>\n<p>No specific statistics has been available regarding the number of deaf people who use sign languages for communication, in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These individuals use more than 300 different sign languages to communicate with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,218,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-health","category-headline"],"views":102,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23789"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23809,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions\/23809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}