WOW Richard, india deaf people must be i npain by discriminate against deaf due of old laws. Hope the laws by government will change new laws and improve the better for deaf in their lives. Carleeta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Howell" <r.mhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Richard Howell" <r.mhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:31 PM Subject: [dbaust] Deaf Indians laws Top of Form 1 DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 18, 2012 - India's laws permit discrimination against the deaf! India is a big nation where newspapers always describe the deaf as deaf-and-dumb or deaf-mute. A research team with the National Disability Network and the Disabled Rights Group looked at all of India's laws. They found 150 different laws that discriminate against deaf. Examples are - deaf not allowed to marry, deaf not allowed to inherit, not allowed to write wills, not allowed to drive, etc. Many of these laws are old but were never changed. Will India's legislators change these laws? .................................................... Disclaimer: Dbaust is a free community service. While reasonable efforts are taken to ensure that messages are accurate and appropriate in scope, the moderators are unable to take any responsibility for the actual content of posts from members or for the actions of list members. To Leave dbaust, send an email to: dbaust-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx With "unsubscribe" in the subject or body of the message (without the quotes). Use "subscribe" instead if you want to re-subscribe to Dbaust. To post to vip-l, send email to: dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Replies to emails on this list will go to the origional sender by default.