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“Braille 1809-2009” Writing with six dots and its future |
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RESOLUTIONS
We, the participants from 46 countries and five continents in the Conference “Braille 1809-2009: Writing with 6 dots and its future”, held in Paris from 5 to 7 January 2009, to commemorate the birth of Louis Braille 200 years ago, hereby resolve:
1. To urge the World Blind Union (WBU) and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) to promote the teaching of Braille as early as possible to blind children as well as to adults according to personal need; 2. To urge the WBU to re-establish the World Braille Council with a view to unifying all elements of braille and the various braille codes to the extend that may be practicable; 3. To urge the WBU to commission a third edition of “World Braille Usage” from a source with necessary expertise to achieve such a task; 4. To urge UNESCO, in collaboration with the WBU, to convene an international conference to advance the unification of braille; 5. To urge the WBU to promote the use of braille in public spaces and to mark consumer products; 6. To commend the Comité International pour la Commémoration du Bicentenaire de la Naissance de Louis Braille (CINAL) and its member organisations, acting in cooperation with WBU, for the organizing of a highly successful international conference and joyous celebrations to commemorate the birth of Louis Braille our greatest benefactor. We further thank UNESCO for its generous gesture in making available to us free of charge such excellent meeting facilities; 7. To express our profound disappointment and dismay at the failure of the French Government to be represented in this conference honouring one of the greatest sons of France and express the hope that the French Government will be represented at the very highest level at the second celebratory conference to be convened at Coupvray in June 2009. This resolution is sponsored by the four WBU Presidents, past and present, attending this conference; 8. To include in the record of the conference proceedings the following salutation: Dear Louis, We, your blind brothers and sisters from around the world, gathered in Paris to commemorate your birth in Coupvray two hundred years ago, speak to you across the centuries to pay homage to you for the enduring example of your life and work and humbly to thank you for the gift you have bequeathed to us in the six dots code that is today the universal key to our literacy and independence.
All of the above resolutions were adopted unanimously
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