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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

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One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. HathiTrust.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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Just three years ago, negotiators from around the world converged on Marrakesh, Morocco, to hash out a final deal. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. It was highly controversial. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law.

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