Academic Papers and Research
Posted on 12 June 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Funding, Human Rights, Inclusion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation | Tags: accessibility, Department of Defense, disability accessible, DoD, facilities, Funding, funding opportunity, inclusive, NCD, overseas, people with disabilities, Rehabilitation Act, research, US |
NCD Announces Funding (Research) Opportunity
On May 13, the National Council on Disability in the US announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NCD-09-02) for a cooperative agreement to study “The Accessibility of U.S.-funded Overseas Facilities and Programs.”
NCD is interested in examining and understanding the responsibilities of U.S.-funded overseas facilities and programs, both [...]
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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 |
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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. I also [...]
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Posted on 10 March 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: A-PODD, A.K. Dube, African Policy on Disability and Development, Centre for Global Health, Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, disability issues, Ethiopia, Government of Malawi, Gubela Mji, health science, IMF, international development, Mac MacLachlan, Malawi, masters in Research, Ministry of Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly, norway, PRSPs, research assistant, Sierra Leone, SINTEF, social science, South Africa, Southern African Federation of fhte disabled, Stellenbosch University, SWAps, The Secretariat of the African Decade for Persons with Disabilities, Trinity College Dublin, Tsitsi Chataika, Uganda, WHO, World Bank |
Vacancy – Research Assistant Position for African Policy on Disability and Development (A-PODD)
Application Deadline: 13 March , 2009
A-PODD has a Research Assistantship position for 1 Year, and the candidate has to be from Sierra Leone. We seek a person with experience in researching disability issues for the above position. The project [...]
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Posted on 9 March 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Health, Opportunities, Violence, Women | Tags: analytical works, climate change, e-discussion, economic life, Education, Employment, environment, GPDD, HDNSP, international women's day, Kelly Hamel, labor, labor force, reproductive health, social life, Violence, Women, women with disabilities, World Bank |
I am re-posting the following announcement, partly as a reminder for people who wish to register but also to correct and clarify the instructions for registration:
People from around the world are invited to participate in an e-discussion on women with disabilities in development, to be conducted on-line from March 10 to 24, 2009. The [...]
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Posted on 4 March 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Health, Human Rights, Inclusion, Networking Opportunities, Opportunities, Violence, Women, accessibility | Tags: access, analytical work, claiming our place, claiming their place, disability and develoment, disabled people organizations, discussion forum, DPOs, e-discussion, economic inclusion, economic life, Education, Employment, environment, gender and develoment, Global Partnership on Disability and Development, GPDD, Inclusion, justice, listserv, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, reproductive health, social inclusion, social life, Violence, women and development, women with disabilities, World Bank |
People from around the world are invited to participate in an e-discussion on women with disabilities in development, to be conducted on-line from March 10 to 24, 2009. The email-based discussion is meant to involve aid agencies; government officials dealing with gender and disability; non-governmental organizations (NGOs); Disabled People Organizations (DPOs); and World Bank [...]
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Posted on 10 February 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Families, Inclusion, Opportunities, Poverty | Tags: adults with disabilities, adults with intellectual disabilities, Call for Papers, children with disabilities, children with intellectual disabilities, deprivation, disadvantage, Eric Emerson, Families, inequality, inequity, intellectual disabilities, Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, low-income countries, middle-income countries, Penny Crino, policies, Poverty, research, social exclusion, Susan Parish |
The Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability is seeking submissions for a special issue of their publication that will examine poverty, deprivation, social exclusion and disadvantage. The particular focus of this issue will be on understanding the role that poverty and social deprivation play in shaping the life chances of children and adults with intellectual [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Education, Opportunities | Tags: Children, Call for Papers, EENET, inclusive education, higher education, newsletter, articles, young people, life-long learning, call for articles, informal, non-formal, alternative, pre-school, vocational |
Enabling Education Network (EENET) is looking for articles for the 2009 issue of its newsletter “Enabling Education”. (First draft and article ideas should be submitted by January 30, 2009.) The theme of the newsletter is life-long learning. If you could write an article about your experiences of inclusive education in relation to informal, non-formal, [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cross-Disability, East Asia Pacific Region, Policy & Legislation, Reports, South Asian Region | Tags: Afghanistan, Asia and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, Asia-Pacific, australia, Bangaldesh, Bhutan, Biwako, Biwako framework, Biwako Millennium Framework, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, disability rights, Fiji, Hong kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pacific Australia, Pakistan, Philippines, report, Republic of Korea, singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, welfare |
The Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (2003-2012) was meant to promote a rights-based approach toward disability in the Asian-Pacific Region, in place of the older welfare-based approach. The “Biwako Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF)” was meant [...]
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Posted on 24 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cognitive Impairments, Families, Health, Mobility Impariments, Psychiatric Disabilities | Tags: contraception, Family planning, family planning professionals, intellectual disabilities, mental disabilities, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, psychosocial disabilities, reproduction, reproductive services, sex, sexuality |
Doctors, social workers, neighbors, and even family members often mistakenly assume that people with disabilities cannot possibly be interested in sex. Or if they are, others believe they cannot physically participate. Or if they can, others think that no one would want to have sex with them. Because of these myths, people [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, Deaf, Disability Studies, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, Middle East and North Africa, Poverty, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, signed languages | Tags: Afghanistan, Africa, antiquity, articles, bibliographies, bibliography, CIRRIE, critque, Deafness in East Asia, developing countries, disability, Disability in East Asia, East Asia, economically weaker countries, educational responses, exchange, gesture, information, international rehabilitation research, journals, lessons not learned, M. Miles, Middle East, North East AFrica, Pakistan, people with disabilities, Poverty, Rehabilitation, research, social response, social responses, South Asia, South-West Asia, Southern Africa, trends |
Researchers who need to locate journal articles and other publications about people with disabilities throughout history in developing countries face significant barriers. People with disabilities outside of North America and Europe tend to be invisible in much of the published literature and throughout history.
Researchers can consult a list of annotated bibliographies at [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Middle East and North Africa | Tags: bibiliography, disability, disabled people, Egypt, historical, history, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, knowledge, Lebanon, Middle East, people with disabilities, research, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey |
by M. Miles
The partly annotated open online “Disability in the Middle East, a
bibliography”, first web published in 2002, was much revised, extended and updated to June 2008, and now lists about 1,750 items, at:
http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/bibliography/mideast/index.html (also .pdf)
It aims to record the cumulative formal knowledge base in the disability field in countries of the [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Inclusion, Middle East and North Africa, Opportunities | Tags: disability, Education, people with disabilities, research, Poverty, leaders, micro-enterprise, poverty reduction, independence, programs, Qatar, symposia, opportunity, Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, Shafallah, special needs, International Shafallah Forum, Doha, achieving independence, labor, labor practices, unfair labor practices, unfair practices, innovative technologies, inclusive societies, inclusive society, corporate sector, workforce, exhibits, roundtable discussions, paper presentations, Valerie Karr |
Note that the deadline to submit abstracts is January 23, 2009, at 5 pm EST.
On behalf of the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, I would like to extend a warm invitation for you to submit abstracts for the 4th Annual International Shafallah Forum in Doha, Qatar from April 20th – April 22nd , [...]
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Posted on 19 December 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Awards & Honors, Education and Training Opportunities, Fellowships & Scholarships, Opportunities | Tags: EU, European Union, FIRS, International Research Scholarships, international students, ORSAS, PhD study, research study, scholarships, UK, United Kingdom, University of Leeds |
The University of Leeds is offering at least twelve Fully-Funded International Research Scholarships (FIRS), which are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from Session 2009/10. The Scholarships will provide full international fees together with a maintenance grant of £13,290 for Session 2009/10. Closing date for applications: [...]
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Posted on 19 December 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Deaf, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Africa, African histories, African history, Deaf, deaf people, hard of hearing people, history, M. Miles, role models |
Individuals interested in investigating the history of Deaf, deaf, or hard of hearing people in any African nation may wish to read the paper entitled, “Deaf People Living and Communicating in African Histories, c. 960s – 1960s” by M. Miles (2005).
The abstract for this paper is as follows:
“Glimpses of the lives and communication of deaf [...]
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Posted on 6 December 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Events and Conferences, Opportunities, Rehabilitation, South Asian Region | Tags: Byrraju Foundation, Call for Papers, CBR, Community based rehabilitation, disability rehabilitation, empowerment, Hyderabad, India, mental health, National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with, National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped, NIEPMD, NIMH, persons with disabilities |
Jan 24 Addendum: I have just now learned that this seminar, originally scheduled for April 27-28, 2009, is now being postponed. Thank you to one of the conference organizers who left this information in the comments area further below. People interested in the seminar will wish to communicate directly with the seminar organizers [...]
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Posted on 15 September 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, Democratic Participation, Education, Human Rights, Inclusion, Latin America & Caribbean, Mobility Impariments, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Bangaldesh, Blind, colombia, Education, India, new internationalist, polio, politics, Sri Lanka, teacher, Zimbabwe |
Too often, the voices of people with disabilities are simply not heard–within their country, within their community, or sometimes even within families. The voices of disabled people in developing countries are even more suppressed.
One special issue of the New Internationalist, released in 2005, brings us the voices of people with disabilities from India … [...]
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Posted on 4 September 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, Inclusion, Reports, Resources | Tags: development programs, DFID, DisabilityKar, Gender and Disability, InterAction, InterAction member agencies, international development, MIUSA, Mobility International, NORAD, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, policies, policy, Poverty, relief, UK Department for international development, USAID, World Bank |
We cannot put all the world’s children into school, or eradicate global poverty and hunger, or stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, until and unless mainstream international development programs proactively include people with disabilities. The good news is that a slowly growing number of international agencies and organizations have written policies declaring their support for [...]
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Posted on 27 August 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, Inclusion, Resources, Violence | Tags: conflict-affected populations, Disabilities Among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Popul, disabled people's organizations, displaced population, DPOs, Education, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, refugees, Resource Kit for Fieldworkers, United Nations, vocational training, Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children |
What population in the world is the most excluded, marginalized, or simply forgotten? Many readers of this blog probably would immediately say, “people with disabilities.” But if you were to talk with someone who is a refugee from war, or someone who works with them, they might immediately say, “refugees.” So who [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Reports, Violence, Women, youth | Tags: a gender and disability perspective, disabled girls, Education, education for all, girl's education, girls, girls with disabilities, students with disabilities, Violence |
A report entitled Education for All: a gender and disability perspective (PDF format, 151 Kb) discusses what we don’t know about girls with disabilities in relation to education, and what ought to be done about it.
Readers familiar with gender issues within education know that, in many countries, girls are still more likely to [...]
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Posted on 6 August 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cross-Disability, Inclusion, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Disability Kar, disabled people, disabled people's organizations, donors, DPOs, Northern Europe, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, Poverty, South Africa, UK, Zimbabwe |
Research conducted in Zimbabwe and South Africa has confirmed what grassroots advocates have known all along: people with disabilities aren’t just at higher risk of poverty. People with disabilities are also more likely to be ignored by many donors who support programs to end poverty.
The 77-page study is entitled, “Are Disabled Peoples’ Voices [...]
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Posted on 16 July 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Cross-Disability, Inclusion, Opportunities, Poverty, Resources, Women | Tags: gender, international development, publications, Siyanda |
Researchers, international development professionals, and disability advocates who have an interest in gender issues may wish to explore the many gender-related publications at http://www.siyanda.org/.
The Siyanda database offers a wide range of articles and other publications related to gender and international development. Many are in English, but some materials are also available in other languages. [...]
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Posted on 14 July 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, HIV/AIDS, Health, Resources | Tags: AIDS, AIDS and disability, asksource.info, global survey, HIV, HIV and disability, nora groce, people with disabilities, research, Resources, World Bank, yale university |
Learn about HIV/AIDS among people with disabilities and find resources that can help at the HIV/AIDS and Disability Global Survey website.
A few years ago, the World Bank and Yale University worked together to conduct a global survey on HIV/AIDS among people with disabilities. The findings from this global survey are available in PDF format [...]
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Posted on 10 July 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, Opportunities, South Asian Region | Tags: book, Call for Papers, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability rights, Human Rights, Kishor Bhanushali |
Dr. Kishor Bhanushali circulated the following call for papers on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in late June:
Dear All:
This is Dr. Kishor Bhanushali from India, working as a faculty member with ICFAI Business School. I am working on edited book on UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with [...]
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Posted on 2 June 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Case Studies, Cognitive Impairments, Reports, Resources | Tags: anders Gustavsson, Annika Nilsson, Inclusion International, India, intellectual disabilities, Johans Sandvin, Kenya, Lennart Nilsson, romania, South Africa, successful projects--what makes them work |
Ideas are easy. Any 10 disability advocates will have 100 ideas for projects to fight poverty or otherwise improve the lives of people with disabilities in developing countries. But knowing how to implement projects that actually do what advocates and funders hope they will do is much harder. So, what makes successful [...]
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Posted on 26 April 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, Reports | Tags: department of education, emergency management research, icc, interagency committee on disability research, naric, national institute on disability and rehabilitation res, national rehabilitation information center, new freedom initiative subcommittee of the interagency, nidrr, people with disabilities, research subcommittee of the interagency coordinating c, resource guide |
From: Gracer, Bonnie
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:09 PM
Subject: NIDRR Announces New Document – Emergency Management Research
and People With Disabilities: A Resource Guide
The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Emergency Management Research and People With Disabilities: A Resource Guide.
This resource guide is the [...]
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Posted on 26 April 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Education, Employment, Health, Opportunities, Poverty | Tags: daniel mont, disability and economic development, disability and inclusion, Education, Employment, health status, inclusive development, Inter-American institute on Disability and Inclusive De, mortality, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, policy, Poverty, public services, review of disability studies, Rosangela Berman Bieler, socio-economic outcomes, special issue on disability and inclusive economic deve, training, transportation, Water and Sanitation, World Bank |
Call for Papers for the Review of Disability Studies
Special Issue on Disability and Inclusive Economic Development.
The Review of Disability Studies is requesting papers for an upcoming special issue on Disability and Inclusive Development, to be edited by Rosangela Berman Bieler of the Inter-American Institute on Disability and Inclusive Development and Daniel Mont of The World [...]
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Posted on 10 March 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cross-Disability, Poverty, Resources | Tags: a comprehensive toolkit, Afghanistan, analyzing results, conducting field operations, conducting surveys on disability, coping strategies, cultural context, data, data collection, designing questionnaires, development, disability research, disability survey toolkit, disability surveys, disseminating results, Handicap International, household surveys, living conditions, National Disability Survey, political context, Poverty, poverty research, prevalence rates, relgious context, research methodologies, selecting samples, social context, training interviewers |
Disability advocates who work in the field know first hand there is never enough money for the projects they want to run for disabled people. One reason is because society may undervalue people with disabilities. But another is lack of data. Policy makers and funders are reluctant to release valuable funds unless [...]
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Posted on 8 March 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Children, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, Reports, Resources, Violence | Tags: abuse, Blind, child labor, child murder, community, criminal justice system, Deaf, family, findings and recommendations, HIV/AIDS, home, institutions, intellectual disabilities, mental illness, neglect, parents, physical abuse, psychiatric disorders, psycho-social disabilities, rape, report, report on violence against children, schools, sensory impairments, sexual abuse, sterilization, thematic group on violence against disabled children, UN Secretary General, UNICEF, violence against disabled children, virgin, work |
UNICEF has released a summary report entitled, “Violence Against Disabled Children” (PDF format 245 Kb), with the subtitle “UN Secretary Generals Report on Violence against Children, Thematic Group on Violence against Disabled Children, Findings and Recommendations.”
The first half of this report, released in July 2005, summarizes what is known about violence toward children with disabilities [...]
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Posted on 4 March 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cross-Disability, Poverty | Tags: A survey of world bank poverty assessments and implicat, daniel mont, disability, disability and development, disability and poverty, disabled people, jeanine braithwaite, Poverty, World Bank, world bank group |
The World Bank Group has released a new paper entitled “Disability and Poverty: A Survey of World Bank Poverty Assessments and Implications,” by Jeanine Braithwaite and Daniel Mont.
The paper surveys World Bank poverty assessment literature on the relationship between disability and poverty. It finds that it is difficult to accurately assess the link between [...]
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Posted on 28 February 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cross-Disability, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights, News, Psychiatric Disabilities, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability and development, disabled people, Enable, enable newsletter, ILO, international development, International Labour Organization, Maldives, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, Moscow, Mozambique, OECD, office of the high commissioner for human rights, Organization for Economic Cooperation and development, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, psycho-social listserv, serbia, UN commission, UNDP, UNIC, United Nations, united nations development programme, United Nations Information Center, World Bank |
The second monthly issue of United Nation’s Enable Newsletter has now been released. The initial launch of this newsletter was announced at We Can Do last month.
A sampling of headlines for the February issue is listed below, except that I have modified them to spell out most acronyms. To read the full stories [...]
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Posted on 26 February 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Employment, HIV/AIDS, Health, Human Rights, Inclusion, Policy & Legislation, Rehabilitation | Tags: Anne Hawker, Anne M. Veneman, Charlotte McClain Nhlapo, children with disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability and international development, disability rights, disabled people, Employment, empowerment, habilitation, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, inclusive development, inclusive education, international development, International Rehabilitation Review, Kirsten Young, legal capacity, Maria Veronica Reina, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation International, Sebenzile Matsebula, shantha rau, Stefan Tromel, Tina Minkowitz, UN, United Nations, women with disabilities |
Rehabilitation International’s publication, International Rehabilitation Review, has published a special edition focused on promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). People with disabilities, advocates, disability experts, and human rights experts, all contributed 20 articles to the December 2007, 48-page edition.
The CRPD is the first comprehensive international legislation to focus [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, Human Rights | Tags: center for human rights of persons with disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, Finland, Germany, human rights institutions, Hungary, NGOs, serbia, sweden, ukraine, United Kingdom, VIKE |
Press release
On 15 February 2008
The Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (VIKE) is
conducting a survey on the processes of ratification of the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in seven European states. The
chosen states are Finland, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine and
the United Kingdom.
The main focus of this survey is to analyze [...]
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Posted on 13 February 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, HIV/AIDS, Health, Latin America & Caribbean | Tags: AIDS, AIDS and disability, Caribbean, disabilities, disabled Jamicans, disabled people, HIV, Jamaica, Jamicans with disabilities, Nalini Asha Reyes, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, San Diego State University, survey |
Graduate student Nalini Asha Reyes at San Diego State University in California, USA, is conducting a survey about HIV/AIDS among people with disability in Jamaica. Her survey is based on an earlier, similar global survey by researcher Dr. Nora Groce at Yale University.
Nalini Asha Reyes is looking for people to participate in her survey. [...]
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Posted on 13 February 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Cross-Disability, HIV/AIDS, Health, Human Rights, Media & Journalism, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence, Women | Tags: african federation of the deafblind, african network of women with disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability and international development, disabled people, disabled women, Ethiopia, human rights africa, international development, international development and disability, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, newsletter, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, PRSP, Rwanda, Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disab, Uganda |
Readers interested in human rights issues affecting Africans with disabilities can catch up with past issues of the newsletter Human Rights Africa. Issues are available in both English and French, and in both Word format and PDF format. This publication from the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities was published [...]
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Posted on 29 January 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Children, Cross-Disability, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, Human Rights, Inclusion, Reports, Women | Tags: agencies, bisexual, cross dresser, disability and international development, disaster situations, elderly people, emergency relief agencies, emergency shelters, ethnic origin, focus on discrimination, gay, governments, international development, lesbian, mental disability, minorities, people with disabilities, physical disability, relief planning, religion, sexual orientation, social origin, transgender, transsexual, vulnerable groups, Women, World disasters report |
The World Disasters Report (2007) examines what happens to various vulnerable groups during disaster situations, particularly women, elderly people, minorities, and people with disabilities. This report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies includes many stories of how discrimination and exclusion has made it harder for some people to survive [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Cross-Disability, Education |
Enabling Education Network (EENET) Newsletter 2008: Call for articles
In the 2008 edition of EENET’s newsletter, “Enabling Education”, we hope to focus on the topic of:
language and inclusive education
Could you write a short article on this topic? If so, EENET wants to hear from you! Here are some ideas for what you could send to EENET:
They’d [...]
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Posted on 17 January 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Blind, Cognitive Impairments, Cross-Disability, Deaf, Human Rights, Mobility Impariments, Reports, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: African union of the blind, autonomy, Blind, centre for disability rights education and advocacy, CREAD, Deaf, dignity, disabilities, disability, disability rights, Disability rights promotion international, disabled, DRPI, equality, Human Rights, Inclusion, intellectual disabilities, international development, Kenya, kenyan union of the blind, mobility impairments, State of Disabled people's rights in kenya, Swedish association of the visually impaired, Swedish international development agency, world blind union |
[Originally published at wecando.wordpress.com (We Can Do) at http://tinyurl.com/27gxpy]
A recent publication, entitled “State of Disabled People’s Rights in Kenya (2007) Report,” analyzes national and regional Kenyan legislation on disability; government programs and policies on disability, and case law in disability. The report also presents the results of interviews with disabled people in three selected [...]
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Posted on 17 January 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Children, Cross-Disability, Disability Studies, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Middle East and North Africa, Rehabilitation, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: AIDS, American Samoa, Botswana, cerebral palsy, Chuuk, disability, disability and international development, disability rights, Disability Studies, disabled people, earthquake, Education, ethnobotany, HIV, India, international development, international journal, Israelis, Jordan, Lebanon, leprosy, Lesotho, Micronesia, Palestinians, people with disabilities, perceptions of disability, program evaluation, rehabilitation counseling, Review of Disability Studies an international journal, studying abroad, suicide, Taiwan, teachers, Thailand, Vietnam |
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Researchers and students, but especially people new to their field, can find it challenging to locate research, essays, and other academic literature about people with disabilities in developing countries. This may be in part because there are few international, disability-oriented journals available [...]
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Posted on 16 January 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Cross-Disability, Disability Studies, Opportunities | Tags: Center on Disability Studies, David Pfeiffer, disability, disability and international development, Disability Studies, disabled people, international development, international journal, Manoa, people with disabilities, RDS, The Review of Disability studies an international journ, University of Hawaii |
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Call for Journal Submissions:
The Review of Disability Studies an International Journal, www.rds.hawaii.edu
In order to address the need for an internationally-focused academic journal in the field of Disability Studies, in 2003 the late David Pfeiffer and the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at [...]
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