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"One billion people, 15 per cent of the world's population, are persons with disabilities, and their rights cannot be ignored," a group of United Nations human rights experts said on Friday, as they urged negotiators and UN Member States to include rights of such persons in the new development framework.

The 17 new post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs), crafted by an Open Working Group of the UN General Assembly on the issues and expected to be adopted in September 2015, will succeed replace and expand the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will frame agendas and policies for the next 15 years.

"No one should be left behind if we want to ensure a fully inclusive society for all," the group of three UN human rights experts said in a statement, urging international negotiators and all UN Member States to firmly include the human rights of persons with disabilities in the new development framework.

"The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the SDGs is fundamental if we are to achieve sustainable development that is genuinely rights-based," said the UN special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas Aguilar.

She also said, "Whereas people with disabilities were invisible within the MDGs, we have seen promising advances in ensuring that the new development framework is sustainable, inclusive and accessible."

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, drew attention to the issue of food security.

"We know that nutrition and disability are closely linked. Both children and adults are often discriminated against, due to social stigma and negative cultural norms," Elver said.

Worldwide, an estimated 805 million people are chronically undernourished. Since many persons with disabilities live in absolute poverty, these two large populations overlap to a considerable extent, making food security of utmost importance.

States are particularly responsible for making sure that vulnerable and marginalised people, including those with disabilities, are able to access adequate and nutritious food, she said.

"Food must be physically and economically accessible," Elver added. "To achieve this, States must ensure that a disability perspective is taken fully into account in nutrition policy and programming, maternal and child health policy, and broader health initiatives."

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With the Super Bowl and NBA All-Star Games behind us, and the Academy Awards looming on Sunday, it brings to mind two of the greatest forms of entertainment: sports and cinema.

Though these Oscars will be notably light on sports movies, The Post took a look back at sports movies of the past to pick out the best of the best.

Many like The Natural and Field of Dreams are nostalgic, longing for a bygone era that hasnt existed in years, if it ever existed outside our dreams. Many have clear-cut winners and losers, heroes and villains. But the best ones are often so much more than that.

If sports are a microcosm of life, life isnt fair. Sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win, you really lose. The best sports movies show people in all their flaws the anger of Raging Bull, the self-destruction of The Hustler, the guilt of On the Waterfront. In short, theyre human.

There are plenty of great pictures and performances from which to choose. The Post limited the field to just movies that focused primarily on sports, though some exceptions were made for individuals who played sports figures in what were deemed non-sports movies. Now, the envelopes, please.

Rocky

The ultimate underdog Rocky pulled off the upset against sports movie heavyweights Hoosiers and Raging Bull. Sylvester Stallone got the inspiration for the screenplay after watching the heavyweight title fight between Bayonnes Chuck Wepner and reigning champ Muhammad Ali, and insisted he play the lead. Good call.

Stallone, who trained with Jimmy Gambina every day for about five months before shooting, became a star, and the film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, ranked 57th on the American Film Institutes 100 Years 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition.

Stallone got sued by Wepner for a share of the profits and settled in 2006. For the movie that gave us the most-used workout music in history Gonna Fly Now the line Yo, Adrian! and five sequels, its the least he could do.

Nominees: Hoosiers, Raging Bull, Field of Dreams, The Natural, Remember the Titans, The Fighter, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Million Dollar Baby and The Hustler.

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