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Posted on 6 October 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Deaf, East Asia Pacific Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Networking Opportunities, News, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Center for International Programs and Services, CIPS, CPSO, deaf organizations, deaf schools, Gallaudet, Gallaudet University, information resources, organizations, schools |
A new initiative enables users to find deaf organizations and schools in 149 countries around the world. Launched by the Gallaudet University Center for International Programs and Services (CIPS) in October 2009, the World Deaf Information Resource Project provides contact information for hundreds of international-, national-, and local-level organizations and schools globally. http://cips.gallaudet.edu/wdi.xml
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Posted on 4 June 2009. Filed under: Announcements, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, Employment, Health, Human Rights, Inclusion, News, Policy & Legislation, Rehabilitation, Reports, Resources, Violence, Women, signed languages | Tags: disabilities, disabled women, Pacific, Women, women with disabilities |
A new report has been released about the human rights situation of women with disabilities in the Pacific region.
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Posted on 1 June 2009. Filed under: East Asia Pacific Region, Human Rights, News, Opinion | Tags: Asia Pacific Disability Forum, Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Bangladesh, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, Disabled Peoples’ International, Fiji, Inclusion International, India, Indonesia, International Disability Alliance, International Federation of Hard of Hearing People, KAMPI, Katipunan ng Maykapansanan sa Pilipinas, Malaysia, Manila, Nepal, Philippines, Rehabilitation International, Republic of Korea, Samoa, sida, Swedish international development agency, Thailand, UN, United Nations, Vietnam, world blind union, World Federation of the Deaf, World Federation of the Deafblind, World network of users and survivors of psychiatry |
IDA – Asia Pacific Regional Conference on the CRPD Implementation and Monitoring
MANILA DECLARATION
February 11-12th, 2009
We, the delegates from The Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Samoa, Fiji, and Republic of Korea being members of Disabled Peoples’ International, Inclusion International, International Federation of Hard of Hearing People, Rehabilitation International, World Blind Union, [...]
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Posted on 29 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, HIV/AIDS, Health, 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 |
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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 its concern for the violence [...]
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Posted on 25 February 2009. Filed under: Human Rights, News, Women | Tags: bureau of democracy, Clinton, Democracy, disability rights, disability rights organizations, Hilary Clinton, Human Rights, Inclusion, labor, Secretary of State, Stephanie Ortoleva, US foreign policy, women's rights, women's rights organizations |
This was from a State Department town hall meeting on February 4, see: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/02/116022.htm)
QUESTION: Good afternoon, Madame Secretary. It’s an honor to be working under your leadership, and I look forward to the challenges that you present. My name is Stephanie Ortoleva. I work in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
I basically wanted [...]
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Posted on 24 February 2009. Filed under: Case Studies, Inclusion, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), News, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: accessibility, African Decade of Persons with Disabilities, Deepti Samant, disabled people organization, DPO, education for all, EFA, FAMOD, Fast Track Initiative, Forum of Disability Organizations, fti, Global Partnership on Disability and Development, GPDD, GPDD Secretariat, Handicap International, HIV/AIDS, IFC, IMF, Inclusion, inclusive tourism, Inter-American Institute on Disability & Inclusive Development, Lusophone, Maputo, Maria Reina, MoE, Mozambique, Mozambique tourism Anchor Program, PARPA, people with disabilities, PRSP, World Bank |
[Note from We Can Do editor: Many developing countries are required to develop a "Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper" (PRSP) as a condition for receiving debt relief from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This strategy paper is meant to describe how the country will reduce poverty among its citizens. A [...]
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Posted on 24 February 2009. Filed under: Disaster Planning & Mitigation, News, Violence | Tags: cluster munitions, convention on cluster munitions, executive director, ICBL, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, mine ban treaty, Nobel Peace Prize, Sylvie Brigot |
A Mine-Free World, Mission Possible!
ناهج زا يراع ،نیامذپ ناکما تیرومام ریتسا !
Press Release
23rd Feb – 2009, Kabul, Afghanistan – Ten years after the historic treaty banning antipersonnel mines became binding international law, campaigners in some 50 countries around the globe are taking action this week to once again draw the world’s attention [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2009. Filed under: Cognitive Impairments, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights, News, Psychiatric Disabilities | Tags: BHC, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Helsinki committee, Bulgarian Parliament, institutions, intellectual disabilities, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, MDAC, mental disabilities, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, OMCT, parliament, psycho-social disabilities, psychosocial disabilities, United Nations, World Organization Against Torture |
Geneva, 3 December 2008
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) and the Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC) come together to express their serious concern over the situation of persons with mental disabilities, one of the most marginalised and discriminated groups in Bulgarian society.
In [...]
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Posted on 7 February 2009. Filed under: Deaf, Education, Human Rights, Networking Opportunities, News, Opportunities, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Women, indigenous people | Tags: Intl-Dev, MIUSA, Mobility International USA, DPI, Disabled People International, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Deaf, We Can Do blog, disability, international development, CRPD, GPDD, developing countries, AskSource, women with disabilities, Women, Human Rights, RatifyNow, people with disabilities, Africa, South Asia, sign languages, information, EENET, Enabling Education Network, ghulam nabi nizamani, human rights africa, newsletter, networking, World network of users and survivors of psychiatry, wnusp, disability advocates, deaf studies, Asia-Pacific, asksource.info, African Decade of Persons with Disabilities, International Disability Alliance, International Network of Women With Disabilities, INWWD, indigenous people, grassroots advocates, WWD, information exchange, mailing lists, listservers, resource list, conference announcements, job announcement, internatioanl development professionals, discussion groups, facebook, facebook networking groups, electronic newsletter, CSID, Centre for Services and Information on Disability, International Development and Disability News, global development briefing, idealist.org, Global Partnership on Disability and Development, IDA_CRPD_Forum, AdHoc_IDC, Disability Research List, AsiaPacificDisabilities, indigenous people with disabilities, IIDCWG, EENET_Eastern_Africa, DeafStudiesAfrica, Deaf Studies Africa, deafintl, Disability and Human Rights, you |
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Asides from this blog, where can you find information and resources on disability in developing countries? And, how can you network with other people in the field?
If you’re a regular We Can Do reader, you know that this site has links to many resources and organizations. [...]
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Posted on 18 December 2008. Filed under: Disaster Planning & Mitigation, News, South Asian Region | Tags: Bangladesh, Handicap International, emergency response, children with disabilities, people with disabilities, South Asia, Water and Sanitation, sanitation, water, Save the Children, country director, survival packages, accessible housing, latrines, Roger Bodary, Habitat for Humanity, Oliver Broua, rapid response coordinator, Norbert Nicoup, Farrah Kabir, action aid Bangladesh, Malay Chandra Mirdha, ICCDDRB, Abdur Rashid, WSS, MJF, Jahid Hasan, Southern Socio-economic Development Program, Sidr, Cyclone Sidr, southern coastal area |
SSDP’s Program Achievement Nov’07 – Oct’08
The Southern Socio-economic Development Program (SSDP) is a non profitable NGOs working for underprivileged rural community especially for people with disabilities (PWDs) in southern coastal area of Bangladesh. We are very proud of to extend our service to Cyclone SIDR affected people by the support of various donor. [...]
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Posted on 18 December 2008. Filed under: Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights, News | Tags: Barack Obama, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability rights, Hiljmnijeta Apuk, Human Rights, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Kosovo, Obama, United States |
03 December 2008,
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Dear Mr. Obama,
Congratulations to US. People and to you personally on your historic win to be 44th President of the United States of America .
Your acceptance speech was so good to hear when many minority groups have been mentioned, specifically persons with disabilities and it [...]
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Posted on 16 December 2008. Filed under: News, South Asian Region, Women | Tags: Abdus Sattar Dulal, Ashrafun Nahar, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity, Bill Winkley, BPKS, Charles Whitley, Dhaka, disability rights, Human Rights, Kamar Munir, national dialogue, Rezul Karim, women with disabilities, women's rights |
Press Release on “National Dialogue on the Rights of Women with Disabilities”
A “National Dialogue on the Rights of Women with Disabilities” was held at the Dhaka Press Club VIP Lounge in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 27 November 2008 between 10.00 am to 01.00 pm. The conference was well attended, with over 120 participants, from a wide [...]
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Posted on 16 December 2008. Filed under: News, Poverty | Tags: AusAid, australia, Australia AID, Australian government, Bob McMullan, international development, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities |
MEDIA RELEASE
BOB MCMULLAN MP
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
MEMBER FOR FRASER
AA 08 67 25 November 2008
The Australian Government has for the first time made people with disability a priority for Australia’s international development
program.
Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, will today launch Australia’s first strategy to guide
Australia’s aid program in supporting people with a disability [...]
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Posted on 4 December 2008. Filed under: Human Rights, News, South Asian Region | Tags: Abdus Sattar Dulal, Anwar Hossain Hazari, disabled people's organizations, DPOs, Iftekhar Hossain Sohel, Jahangir Alam, NADPO, National Alliance of Disabled Peoples Organization, Shah Alam, Shameemkausar, Showkat Hossain Bhuiyan |
Subject: NADPO organized human chain on International Disability Day 2008
Dear All,
Greetings from National Alliance of Disabled Peoples Organization (NADPO)!
NADPO is a leading and representing national network of Disabled Peoples Organizations (DPOs) in Bangladesh which are proactively involve for the development of ten percent (10%) different types of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in this country. The [...]
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Posted on 4 December 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, Human Rights, News | Tags: UK, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Uganda, United Nations, CRPD, Peru, disability rights, United Kingdom, Human Rights, Diana Samarasan, Disability rights fund, DFID, open society institute, sigrid rausing trust, department for international development, eastern europe, former soviet union, donors, grantmaking, disability community, Bangaldesh, global South, American Jewish World Service |
PRESS RELEASE: Disability Rights Fund Receives $1.3 Million from DFID
December 3, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BOSTON, MA – On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Fund (DRF) is happy to announce receipt of a grant of £868,000 ($1.3 million) from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). This grant will [...]
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Posted on 1 December 2008. Filed under: Deaf, East Asia Pacific Region, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, News, signed languages | Tags: 18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf, Alpha Sigma Pi Fraternity, Anthony Yost, ASL, Cao Dang Su Pham, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Dan Kemp, deaf students, Dong Nai, Dong Nai Province, Douglas Colleage, Dr. Michael Kemp, Dr. Mike Kemp, Dr. Vicki J. Shank, Europe, Far East, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jack Kemp, Jamie Yost, Jennifer Yost Ortiz, Joan Kemp, Linda Kemp, Michael Kemp, Middle East, Mike Kemp, National Association of the Deaf, National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Res, Northern Virginia Community College, Ratchasuda College, Raymond Merrit, Sign Language Teacher Training Program, South America, T. J. O'Rourke Memorial Award, Teacher Training Center, Thailand, Thomas Kemp, United States, University of British columbia, University of Pureto Rico, Vietnam, Virginia Association of the Deaf, William M. Kemp, Zeke Ortiz, Zion Ortiz |
The Gallaudet University Provost’s Office has released the following obituary for Dr. Mike Kemp. People who wish to send condolences to his family will want to take note of the contact information provided at the end; condolences should please be sent directly to the family, NOT via We Can Do. I had reported [...]
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Posted on 30 November 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, Human Rights, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), News | Tags: ban Ki-moon, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, dignity and justice for all of us, General Assembly, Human Rights, ida, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, International Disability Alliance, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, Secretary General |
SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, SAYS MUCH TO CELEBRATE WITH ENTRY INTO FORCE OF RIGHTS CONVENTION
Following is United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed 3 December:
This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities falls just a week before the sixtieth [...]
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Posted on 30 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Events and Conferences, News, South Asian Region | Tags: India, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, World disability day |
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is being held on December 3, 2008. The following announcement relates to events being held in India. People are welcome to submit announcements about similar events in other developing nations for publication at We Can Do by emailing ashettle [at] patriot.net — substitute the @ [...]
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Posted on 29 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Deaf, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, News, signed languages | Tags: death, Dr. Mike Kemp, grief, Kemp, loss |
At about 1 am GMT, I received word that Dr. Mike Kemp has passed away. A member of Gallaudet University’s faculty, Kemp was an international consultant who conducted training workshops in the Far East, Central and South America, the Caribbean islands, Middle East, and Europe. For the past 10 years, he worked in [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, News | Tags: accessibility, Bahrain, Eduardo Alvarez, GAATES, Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environm, ISO, UAE, United Nations International Day of Disabled Persons, usability of the built environment |
ANNOUNCEMENT
It is with praise and thanks that the Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) presents Eduardo Alvarez with a special Award of Recognition in honour of his outstanding leadership in the creation of the first International Standard for Accessibility and Usability of the Built Environment (ISO TC59/SC16). Mr. Alvarez has demonstrated great leadership, [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2008. Filed under: Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Employment, Human Rights, News, Poverty | Tags: accès à l’emploi, Commission and Parliament, Commission Européenne, Conseil Europeén, Convention Internationale pour le droit des personnes h, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, Democracy, disabled people, economic crisis, EDF, European Council, European Disability Forum, FEPH, Forum Européen des Personnes Handicapées, Hongrie, Hungary, La crise financière, Nations Unies, ONG, Parlement Européen, people with disabilities, UN, unemployment, United Nations, Violence |
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EDF Statement on the Economic Crisis: Disabled People Must Not Pay for the Crisis
Paris, 16 Novembre 2008 – The European Disability Forum, which is the voice of more than 50 million European people with disabilities, calls on the European Council, Commission and Parliament and other European institutions and all the governments of Europe to ensure [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, News, Opportunities | Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disabled people's organizations, DPOs, forum, ida, IDA CRPD Forum, IDDA Secretariat, International Disability Alliance, organizations, Secretariat, Steering committee |
IDA CRPD Forum Recruits Organizations as Participants
The Interational Disability Alliance (IDA) is an international network of disability organizations. According to their web site, “The IDA CRPD Forum upholds the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as the universal standard for the human rights of all persons with disabilities that takes precedence over [...]
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Posted on 25 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Education, News, Opportunities, Resources | Tags: children with disabilities, computers, Education, G1G1, Give one get one, laptops, OLPC, One Laptop per child, students with disabilities, XO laptop, XO laptops |
They’re simple, rugged, and low-cost. And their more ardent fans think they can transform the world–one educated child at a time. Since the first XO laptops rolled off the assembly line in November 2006, hundreds of thousands of children in low-income countries have been using them in the classroom and at home. [...]
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Posted on 23 November 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, Human Rights, News | Tags: Amna Ali Al Suweidi, Ana Peláez Narváez, australia, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Committee, committee on the rights of persons with disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, CRPD Forum, Cveto Uršič, Disabled Peopel's Organizations, DPOs, Ecuador, Edah Wangechi Maina, Geneva, Germán Xavier Torres Correa, Gyorgy Konczei, Hungary, IDA CRPD Forum, International Disability Alliance, Jia Yang, Jordan, Kenya, Lotfi Ben Lallohom, Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Mohamed Al-Tarawneh, Monsur Ahmed Choudhuri, Qatar, Ron McCallum, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, United Nations, william rowland |
First Committee of Experts on Disability Rights Convention Elected
(New York, United Nations, November 3, 2008): Today, the first Conference of States Parties on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) elected the new Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which will be in charge of monitoring the implementation of the [...]
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Posted on 23 November 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, East Asia Pacific Region, Inclusion, News | Tags: cyclone, Disaster, humanitarian disaster, humanitarian emergency, Myanmar |
In humanitarian disasters, people with disabilities are often more at risk and disproportionately affected by crisis situations. Yet they are persistently forgotten and left behind by most of the mainstream agencies that are supposed to help. Unfortunately, this has happened once again during and after the recent cyclones in Myanmar. (Given [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Awards & Honors, Cross-Disability, Deaf, East Asia Pacific Region, Media & Journalism, News | Tags: Deaf, Malaysia, media, magazine, challenges, award |
Challenges Deaf writer wins national Media Award
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 26, 2008: CHALLENGES writer James Chua has won the Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Red Ribbon Media Award in Journalism in HIV/AIDS reporting in Malaysia for the print media magazine category (English).
His Winning Entry : HIV/AIDS, a Serious Health Threat in Any Language was published in the very [...]
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Posted on 11 November 2008. Filed under: Human Rights, News, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: disability, disability activist, disability rights, email, email to Obama, Human Rights, international, letter, letter to Obama, Obama, thank you, Uganda |
International disability activist Ambrose Murangira sent the following email
This email was sent to my friends on 4th November 2hours after Obama’s acceptance Speech. Read it NOW. YES WE CAN make disability history!
Dear Friends (especially Americans with or without disabilities),
Today, i am tempted to write on Sen. Obama’s victory and its implication to Americans with [...]
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Posted on 10 November 2008. Filed under: News, South Asian Region, Violence | Tags: Bangladesh, Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity, BPKS, email obama, Obama |
Congratulation letter to US President-elect Obama from Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS) Bangladesh Dear all in Disability movement, We disabled peoples from Bangladesh send the congratulation letter to Obama as the Elect president of the USA and mentioned thanks for his acknowledgment of the need for unity between all citizens, including the “disabled and [...]
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Posted on 10 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Funding, Human Rights, Latin America & Caribbean, News, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Bangladesh, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, Diana Samarasan, disability rights, Disability rights fund, disabled people's organizations, DPOs, DRF, Ecuador, funding decisions, funds, Ghana, grants, Human Rights, lawyers with disabilities, Namibia, Nicaragua, organizations, Peru, psycho-social disabilities, Uganda, william rowland, women-led DPOs |
PRESS RELEASE
Disability Rights Fund Makes Grants to 33 Organizations in 7 Countries
November 3, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BOSTON, MA – The Disability Rights Fund (DRF) – a groundbreaking collaborative to support the human rights of people with disabilities around the world– today announced funding decisions from its first request for proposals. A total of $800,000 [...]
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Posted on 6 November 2008. Filed under: Assistive Devices, News, South Asian Region | Tags: ARCP, Association for the Rehabilitation of Challenged People, Eid, Estanara, Iftar, M. Mobin Uddin, Pakistan, wheelchairs |
Iftar Party, Eid Dresses & Wheelchair Distribution Ceremony
Dated: 21st September, 2008
at ARCP Korangi Centre
Chairperson ‘Mashal’, Mrs. Rizwana Khan Sponsored with the coordination of Association for the Rehabilitation of Challenged People (ARCP) arranged an Iftar-Dinner Party at its Korangi setup on 21st Sep, 2008. The Iftar party was supervised by Qaseem, Incharge ARCP, Landhi and Nadeem, [...]
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Posted on 2 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, News, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: African Union Social Affairs Commission, africans with disabilities, AFUB, ARI, CBM, Christian Blind Mission, Continental Plan of Action, CPOA, cultural environment, DFID, disability rights, disabled africans, disabled people, disabled people organizations, DPOD, DPOs, economic development, Education, Employment, international development, Kudakwashe A.K. Dube, Namibia, PAFOD, Pan African Parliament, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, physical environment, Rehabilitation, SADPD, sida, social development, Southern Africa Trust, sports, training, Windhoek Declaration |
ANNOUNCEMENT:
AFRICAN DECADE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 2019
A. CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD NEWS!
We are ecstatic!
This is to announce that the AU Continental Decade of Persons with Disabilities has been extended to December 2019.
The Windhoek Declaration on Social Development adopted by Ministers in Charge of Social Development on 31 October 2008, adopted Resolution 6, which reads [...]
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Posted on 2 November 2008. Filed under: Blind, News, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence | Tags: albinism, body parts, legally blind, murder, pigmentation, Tanzania, vision impairment |
In some countries, it is believed that people with albinism have magical powers. This can sometimes lead to the murder of people with albinism so that their body parts can be sold to witch doctors for use in their potions.
Albinism is a condition that causes lack of pigmentation (coloration) in the hair, skin, and [...]
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Posted on 30 October 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, Democratic Participation, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights, News, Policy & Legislation | Tags: Albania, Albanian Disability Rights Foundation, Albanian Government, Anastas Duro, Blerta Cani, Deputy Prime Minister, Durres, Elbasan, Genc Pollo, Korce, National Action Plan, National Strategy on People with Disability, NSPD, Roberta Mahoney, Shkoder, Tirane, Vlore |
For Immediate Release
October 23rd, 2008
Albanian Disability Rights Foundation organized on October 23rd, 2008 at the Rogner EuropaPark Hotel, a National Conference to announce to the Public the Report on the Implementation by the Albanian Government of the National Action Plan of the National Strategy on People with Disability (NSPD). This is the second in the [...]
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Posted on 2 October 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, News, South Asian Region | Tags: assistive technology, Bangalore, IBM, India, PACER, Paula F. Goldberg, people with disabilities, Spastics Society of Karnataka, SSK |
PACER, IBM partner to open model center in India for people with disabilities
The first comprehensive assistive technology center serving people with disabilities in India opened on Sept. 13, thanks to a partnership between PACER Center, IBM Corporation, and the Spastics Society of Karnataka (SSK) in Bangalore, India.
“This center will be a model for the rest [...]
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Posted on 30 September 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, East Asia Pacific Region, News, Policy & Legislation | Tags: Asia-Pacific, AusAid, australia, Australian Disability and Development Consortium, Bob McMullan, disability inclusion, international development assistance, Pacific region, Parliamentary secretary |
The Australian government agency devoted to international assistance programs, AusAid, released the following statement yesterday.
MEDIA RELEASE
BOB MCMULLAN MP
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
MEMBER FOR FRASER
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AA 08 60 29 September 2008
Australia Leads Support for People With Disabilities in Asia Pacific
Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, today committed Australia to a leadership [...]
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Posted on 28 September 2008. Filed under: Cross-Disability, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, Health, Human Rights, News | Tags: India, Handicap International, Kenya, Thailand, CRPD, Nicaragua, Philippines, HI, Mali, Handicap International Newsletter, diabetes, cluster bomb, treaty, emergency relief, DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo, UNHCR, Togo, Burundi, ONU, HCR, traité d'interdiction des bombes à sous-munitions, traité, bombes à sous-munitions, République Démocratique du Congo, RDC |
Handicap International Newsletter
N°1
Sept. 2008
English; Français; Bottom of Page
Plaidoyer / Advocacy – Relations institutionnelles / Institutional
relations – Enjeux opérationnels / Operational stakes
Le point de vue de Handicap International, sur les questions humanitaires, de développement et de handicap.
Handicap International’s perspective on humanitarian, development and disability issues.
Suggestions and comments: newsrelex@handicap-international.org
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Posted on 27 September 2008. Filed under: Deaf, Latin America & Caribbean, News | Tags: Bharrat Jagdeo, Deaf Awareness Week, Guyana, president |
One We Can Do reader has informed me that Guyana President President Bharrat Jagdeo pledged to support the Deaf Awareness Week initiated by a local Support Group of Deaf Persons. Read more detail in the Kaieteur News at:
http://www.kaieteurnews.com/?p=7626
Thank you to Montgomery Chester for bringing my attention to this story.
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Posted on 26 September 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Comments or Information, Cross-Disability, Education, HIV/AIDS, Health, Human Rights, Inclusion, News, Opinion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation, Poverty | Tags: disability, General Assembly, Global Partnership for Disability and Development, GPDD, Maria Veronica Reina, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, people with disabilities, UN, United Nations, World Program of Action |
MEMORANDUM
TO: GPDD PARTNERS
FROM: GPDD SECRETARIAT
SUBJECT: PROMOTING THE MAINSTREAMING OF DISABILITY IN THE MDGs
DATE: 9/25/2008
The General Assembly’s sixty-third session is taking place at the UN headquarters in New York. This session marks a special occasion to highlight the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and a number of consultations and events examining multiple dimensions of MDG activities [...]
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Posted on 7 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Comments or Information, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, Inclusion, News, Opportunities | Tags: disabilities, disabled, disabled people, email obama, Kenya, Obama, people with disabilities, president, president elect, US election, US president, US president-elect |
Change for People with Disabilities: Time to Email Obama!
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