Disabled / Disability / Disabilities On Stamps

Here are images of the two stamps in a disabled persons set, printed by photogravure, and issued by Korea (South) on April 20, 1981 to publicize the United Nations' International Year of Disabled Persons, Scott Nos. 1246 & 1247.

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Symbols associated with disabilities, designed by Lee Keun-moon.


Man in a wheelchair, designed by Lee Boo-yeol.

Israel
50th Anniversary of Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children
April 10, 2002
Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children (ILAN) is a volunteer organization. It serves the needs of some 15,000 children and adults suffering from neuromuscular disabilities.

Denmark
The LEV National Association
March 13, 2002
The LEV National Association is an advocacy organization which works to improve the living conditions of people with learning disabilities (developmental disabilities) in Denmark.

Qatar
Qatar Society for the Handicapped Welfare and Rehabilitation
May 6, 1994
The designs convey the protection and care for the handicapped.

"Foresight prevents blindness," a blind man with a cane, designed by Tunisian artist Hatem El Mekki (1918-2003), engraved by Eugène Lacaque (1914-2005), and issued by Tunisia on April 7, 1976 to publicize World Health Day, Scott No. 679.

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Italy
International Year of Disabled Persons
April 11, 1981
A beautiful world for the handicapped.

Belgium
Help the Handicapped
September 22, 1962
The semipostal stamp set shows the tools to help the handicapped children.

United Arab Emirates
International Year of Disabled Persons
December 26, 1981
The UN General Assembly proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP). It called for a plan of action with an emphasis on equalization of opportunities, rehabilitation and prevention of disabilities.

Brazil
International Day of the Disabled
December 3, 2001
The design features contemporary art work by Lu Coelho and Enrique Scheideger.

Austria
The 7th World Congress of the International Association for the Mentally Disabled Persons
October 2, 1978
The stamp design shows symbolized disabled person and normal persons.

France
Louis Braille
January 5, 2009
Louis Braille (1809 – 1852) was a French educator. He invented braille, a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. The stamp, printed with embossed dots, commemorates the 200th Anniversary of his birth.

Ireland
Bicentenary of the Birth of Louis Braille
January 23, 2009
The design shows an eye in dot patterns, and Eire and 55c are embossed in Braille.

"Trapped by Drugs:" Here are images of the two similar stamps in a set depicting a dagger, and a couple caught in a spider's web, designed by French artist Daniel René Gonzague (1930- ), engraved by Jacky Larrivière (1946- ), and issued by Monaco on November 9, 1976 to publicize the fight against drug abuse, Scott Nos. 1045 & 1046.

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Vatican
Bicentenary of the Birth of Louis Braille
November 4, 2009
Louis Braille (1809 - 1852) developed the system that we know today as braille, employing a 6-dot cell and based upon normal spelling. He also went on to lay the foundations of the braille representation of music.
The stamps feature the name and a portrait of Louis Braille, the Vatican City State and the price written in the raised dots of the Braille system.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a physician treating a patient who is quite evidently suffering from a sever belly ache, designed after an antique woodcut, combined engraved by Mario Ramassotto and photogravure, and issued by Italy on June 16, 1979 to publicize the first week of Italy's promotional campaign for the prevention and cure of digestive maladies, Scott No. 1375.

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