Archive for May, 2009
Posted on 30 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Events and Conferences, Opportunities, Rehabilitation, South Asian Region | Tags: act locally, Afghanistan, CBR, CBR Network, civil society, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability rights, governments, Kabul, networking, South Asia, South Asian CBR Network, think globally |
5th Conference of South Asian Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Network offered in October 2009 in Afghanistan.
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Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Health, HIV/AIDS, News, Resources | Tags: AIDS, civil society, CRPD, disability, HIV, HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, international agencies, OHCHR, policy brief, reproductive health, sexual assault, sexual health, stigma, UNAIDS, Violence, WHO |
Are you working in the field of HIV/AIDS and disability? Have you been frustrated when trying to persuade governments, organizations, or agencies about the need to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in HIV prevention and AIDS health care services? UNAIDS, WHO, and OHCHR have now jointly released a policy brief on disability and HIV that can assist in educating mainstream entities about the high risk of people with disabilities for HIV.
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Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Blind, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights, News, Violence | Tags: ADRF, Albania, Albanian citizens, Albanian Disability Rights Foundation, Albanian Government, Blind, disability rights, Fondacioni Shqiptar për të Drejtat e Personave me Aftësi të Kufizuara, FSHDPAK, Human Rights, Violence |
në gjuhën shqipe Tirana, May 22nd, 2009 PRESS RELEASE Albanian Disability Rights Foundation denounces the violence towards people with disability Albanian Disability Rights Foundation (ADRF), through this declaration expresses the indignation on the violence exercised on May 21st, 2009 during the peaceful protest organized by blind people in front of the Government Building. ADRF, expresses [...]
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Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Deaf, Education, Employment, Interpreting, signed languages, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: academic skills development, applied sign language studies, capacity building, Deaf, deaf communities, deaf empowerment, Education Partnership AFrica, employability, Ghana, iSLanDS Centre, Kyambogo University, sign language interpreter training course, sub-saharan africa, summer courses, training, Uganda, Ulrike Zeshan, University of Ghana |
A new program has been launched to empower the deaf communities of Ghana and Uganda.
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Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Deaf, Education and Training Opportunities, Fellowships & Scholarships, Opportunities, signed languages, South Asian Region | Tags: applied linguistics, applied sign language studies, BA, bilingualism, Deaf, Deaf Empowerment Foundation, deaf students, experiential modules, first language acquisition, India, Indira Gandhi National Open University, international centre for sign languages and deaf studie, interpreter trainers, lab work, language pedagogy, language planning, language policy, professionals, second language, second language acquisition, sign language, sign language studies, sign language teachers, teaching assistants |
This scholarship opportunity is available for deaf students pursuing a BA degree in applied sign language studies at the Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, India.
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Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Audio & Visual Materials, Call for Comments or Information, Call for Nominations or Applications, East Asia Pacific Region, Human Rights | Tags: Agents of Change, Aiko Akiyama, Asia, Biwako, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP, Japan, Mentors, Millennium Framework for Action, Osama Rajkhan, Pacific, Philippines, social model, South Asia, UN, UNESCAP, United Nations |
by Aiko Akiyama Please note that the deadline to submit pictures and bios is May 31, 2009. Dear colleagues, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is putting together a brochure entitled, “Agents of Change,” to promote the social model of disability and explain the changes that will need to [...]
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Posted on 28 May 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Awards & Honors, Call for Nominations or Applications, Call for Papers, Fellowships & Scholarships, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Africa, African studies, African Studies Centre, anthropology, ASC, ASC African Studies Collection, award, competition, Dutch, economic, English, french, history, humanities, juridical, Leiden, literature, masters, netherlands, political, prize, religion, socially relevant, socio-geographical, Sub-Sahara, sub-saharan africa, The Broker, thesis, writing competition |
en français Africa Thesis Award 2009 [Editor's Note: Although this award is not specific to disability issues, it does say that topics should be "socially relevant." We Can Do readers in Africa or the Netherlands may wish to consider using this competition as an opportunity to submit Masters' theses on disability issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. [...]
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Posted on 17 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Comments or Information, Human Rights, Networking Opportunities, Opinion, Psychiatric Disabilities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Abdul-Jeff Maalik Makana, Article 12, challenges, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, Daniel Hazen, implementation, Jeff Makana, Kenya, legal capacity, mental disabilities, mental health, mental illness, MindFreedom, MindFreedom Kenya, psycho-social disabilities, pyschosocial disabilities, ratification, reservations, right to legal capacity, survey, survivors of psychiatry, UN, United Nations, user, users of psychiatry |
MindFreedom Kenya is seeking comments on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in relation to people with psychosocial disabilities.
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Posted on 11 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Capacity Building and Leadership, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Education, Families, Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Opportunities | Tags: authorities, bolivia, capacity builder, disabled children, Education, El Alto, Families, inclusive education, intellectual disabilities, mutual respect, NGO, RC, Ricerca y Cooperazione, social inclusion, teachers |
Texto en español Capacity Builder in Intellectual Disabilities-Ricerca y Cooperazione, El Alto, Bolivia. Ricerca y Cooperazione (RC) is an Italian based NGO, with an established development programme in Bolivia, mainly in the area of education for children and youth. Recognising the need for greater inclusion of disabled children in mainstream education, it is implementing an [...]
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Call for Disabled Role Models in Asian Region for Brochure
Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Audio & Visual Materials, Call for Comments or Information, Call for Nominations or Applications, East Asia Pacific Region, Human Rights | Tags: Agents of Change, Aiko Akiyama, Asia, Biwako, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP, Japan, Mentors, Millennium Framework for Action, Osama Rajkhan, Pacific, Philippines, social model, South Asia, UN, UNESCAP, United Nations |
by Aiko Akiyama Please note that the deadline to submit pictures and bios is May 31, 2009. Dear colleagues, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is putting together a brochure entitled, “Agents of Change,” to promote the social model of disability and explain the changes that will need to [...]
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