@@ The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank have launched the World Report on Disability (1) by in the United Nations Headquarters in New York on June 9, 2011. It refers to the UN-Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2) and slates - based on statistical data-that 1 billion people in the world experience significant disabilities. This corresponds to about 15％ of the worlds population and is higher than WHO has estimated previously (1). One of the chapters of the report highlights the significance of rehabilitation as aset of measures to improve functioning and enables participation. This includes prevention of the loss of function, slowing the rate of loss of function, improvement or restoration of functions, compensation for lost function, and maintenance of current function The WRD concludes that rehabilitation needs team-integrated action including Rehabilitation Medicine, therapies as well as assistive technologies. A special focus of the WRD lies in the description of unmet needs in rehabilitation and in barriers to rehabilitation from this specific action to improve rehabilitation services is addressed including addressing barriers to rehabilitation, reforming policies, laws, and delivery systems, developing funding mechanism for rehabilitation, increasing human resources for rehabilitation, expanding and decentralizing service delivery, increasing the use and affordability of technology, and expanding research and evidence practice. Thus there are many fields PRM can contribute to the necessary action to fight against disability and barriers for inclusion of persons with disabilities, e.g.