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Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a UN-day. The theme for this year's is: "Break Barriers, Open Doors: for an inclusive society and development for all".
One year after her appointment as the first ever Liberal Democrat minister at the Department for International Development (DfID), Lynne Featherstone has already earned a reputation for picking up difficult subjects and setting ambitious goals. In her first year, she put the issue of female genital mutilation on the national and international agenda and famously declared that she wanted to see it gone within a generation and then started to take the practical steps to make that happen.
On World Mental Health Day (Thursday 10 October), Mark Hunter signed a pledge with Time to Change, the mental health anti-stigma programme. The pledge is a commitment by MPs in their roles as small employers to address mental health stigma and discrimination, and support mental health and wellbeing among their staff.