The current year should see the elimination of leprosy as a public health problem -- a status prevalent in only one country -- but a lot remains to be done to restore the rights and dignity of the affected persons says Yohei Sasakawa the Japanese head of The Nippon Foundation which for 12 years has annually been launching Global Appeals to end the human rights violations of the leprosy-affected. The beauty of the Global Appeal -- the fourth to be launched from India this time in collaboration with Javed Abidi's Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) -- is that it doesn't seek