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Posted on 22 February 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized |
The IDA CRPD Forum has been set-up by the International Disability Alliance (IDA) http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/ to continue the work of the International Disability Caucus. 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 27 August 2008. Filed under: Children, Cross-Disability, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Families, Funding, Human Rights, News, Policy & Legislation, youth | Tags: ARDI, Asian Development Bank, Association of Parents of Disabled Children, Azat Israilov, Big Lottery Fund, children with disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disabled children, Edward Vinter, EFCA, Employment, Eurasia Foundation in Central Asia, Health Prom, HealthProm, Ishenkul Boldzhurova, Japan, Japanese agency for international cooperation, JICA, Kyrgyzstan, law, Minister of labour and social development, Ministry of Labour and Social Development, parents, people with disabilities, Rehabilitation, Seinep Dyikanbaeva, Shoola Kol, Tatyana Buynovskaja, Uktomkhan Abdullaeva, UN, United Nations, World Bank |
The following newsletter was sent to We Can Do from Kyrgyzstan–thanks to Azat Israilov for passing this on. This contains news about projects for people with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan; a new law protecting the rights of people with disabilities; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and announcements for a couple of [...]
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Posted on 24 July 2008. Filed under: Introduction to "We Can Do", News, Uncategorized | Tags: first anniversary, popular blog posts, under-rated blog posts, We Can Do blog |
This blog post reviews some of the most popular and (possibly) under-rated blog posts at We Can Do in the past year.
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Posted on 15 July 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized |
Invitation for Pre-Qualification as a Resource Person Under MDG Programme
The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development invites interested Resource Persons for Pre-qualification to tender to conduct a nationwide survey of Persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Nigeria and to assist the department prepare modalities for carrying out the National Baseline Survey on Persons with [...]
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Posted on 18 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Events and Conferences, Human Rights, Latin America & Caribbean, Opportunities, youth | Tags: activists, Brazil, colloquium, conference, Human Rights, United Nations, universal declaration of human rights, youth |
VIII International Human Rights Colloquium
“60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Challenges for the Global South”
8 to 15 november 2008, sao paulo, brazil
What is the International Human Rights Colloquium?
The Colloquium is an annual capacity building and peer-learning event designed for young activists from the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America). The objective [...]
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Posted on 16 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Funding, Human Rights, Latin America & Caribbean, News, Opportunities, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Uncategorized | Tags: Africa, anitgua Union Sovietica, Asia, Bangladesh, CDPD, Convencion Sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Disca, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, developing world, Diana Samarasan, disability rights, Disability rights fund, disabled persons organizations, DPOs, DRF, eastern europe, Ecuador, el mundo en desarrollo, Europa del Este, Fondo Sobre Derechos de Personas con Discapacidad, former soviet union, Funding, Ghana, grants, Human Rights, Latin America, Naciones Unidas, Namibia, Nicaragua, open society institute, Peru, sigrid rausing trust, Uganda, United Nations, WBU, william rowland, world blind union |
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PRESS RELEASE
Disability Rights Fund Opens Grantmaking to DPOs in 7 Countries
JUNE 16, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BOSTON, MA – The Disability Rights Fund—a groundbreaking grantmaking collaborative supporting the human rights of people [...]
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Posted on 11 June 2008. Filed under: Call for Nominations or Applications, Deaf, Events and Conferences, Middle East and North Africa, Opportunities, Psychiatric Disabilities, Uncategorized | Tags: academic qualification, AFMS, Deaf, deaf community, deafness, educational qualification, Fez, Marokkofonds, mental health, mental health and deafness, Morocco, sign language |
The 2nd international Forum of the Deaf
The 2nd International Forum of the Deaf in Morocco is an initiative that aims to promote: Mental Health awareness among the medical core and the deaf community of Morocco. The establishment of a national policy to investigate the linguistic, social, mental health, and physical needs of the deaf; for [...]
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Posted on 28 May 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Awards & Honors, Call for Nominations or Applications, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, Opportunities, Poverty, Uncategorized | Tags: activists, bryan sanderson, candy whittome, development agency, global human rights defender, grassroots organisations, Haleh afshar, international development workers, International service, international service human rights awards, Latin America, marika freris, Middle East, tim hancock, West Africa |
International Service, a development agency that works in Latin America, West Africa, and the Middle East, is seeking nominations for its annual International Service Human Rights Awards.
We Can Do readers should please note that one of their categories is for grass roots activists or organizations working in the area of disability rights. [...]
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Posted on 29 April 2008. Filed under: Human Rights, Reports, Uncategorized | Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, disability and development, disability and international development, disability rights, Human Rights, international development, international disability rights treaty, Rehabilitation International, Seminar on implementation of the draft UN convention on, United States international council on disabilities |
Today, the international disability rights treaty, more commonly known as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is on the verge of entering into force this May 3, 2008. But a mere year ago, in March 2007, the CRPD had only just been opened for countries to sign and ratify. [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2008. Filed under: Blind, Democratic Participation, Human Rights, Mobility Impariments, News, South Asian Region, Uncategorized | Tags: Braille, disability rights, election, India, Karanataka, mobility impairments, ramps, vision impairments, voting, voting booths, wheelchairs |
People with disabilities in Karnataka, India, have now won the right to accessible polling locations in the upcoming May 10, 2008, assembly elections, Action Aid India has reported. All officials involved with the upcoming election have been alerted to the requirement to install ramps and Braille voting booths so that people with mobility and vision [...]
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Posted on 2 April 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: CBR managers, CBR staff, CBR trainers, community, Community based rehabilitation, disability, disability advocates, Fiona post, hanneke Vergoeven, Henk van apeldoorn, Huib Cornielje, netherlands, policy makers, policy planners, politicians, Rehabilitation, Roelie Wolting, train the trainer, training the trainer |
TOT in Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
25th of August to the 5th of September 2008
The Netherlands
People interested in applying are urged to apply with Enablement well in advance.
Enabling CBR
General objective
You will acquire the theory, skills and tools to develop and implement effective training programmes.
Specific Objectives
At the end of the ToT you will:
be sensitive to issues [...]
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Posted on 1 January 2008. Filed under: Poverty, Uncategorized | Tags: 50 vocabulary levels, bowl of rice, disabilities, disability, disabled, disabled people, easy words, end hunger, end starvation, English as a second language, feed the hungry, fight hunger, fight starvation, free rice, free rice for the hungry, free vocabulary fun, guess vocabulary, hard words, helping the poor, hunger, hunger crisis, hungry, people with disabilities, Poverty, rice bowl, vocabulary game, vocabulary geeks, vocabulary skills, word game |
URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/255u9a
The Fun Part
You can give free rice to hungry people, play a free game, and improve your vocabulary, all in the same key stroke at a new web site called FreeRice.
If you’re one of my regular readers at We Can Do: my apologies. I know you usually come here [...]
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Posted on 21 December 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized |
Some clarifications have been added to the post regarding a possible funding opportunity from USAID. You may consult this post at:
http://wecando.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/usaid-funding-for-disability-inclusion-available/
Apologies for the inconvenience, to those of you who had already looked at the original version of that post.
The best source of information and detail, however, would be the USAID Mission office that is [...]
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Posted on 7 November 2007. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Arts, Blind, Call for Papers, Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Cross-Disability, Deaf, Disability Studies, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, East Asia Pacific Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Families, Funding, Guest Blogger, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Interpreting, Introduction to "We Can Do", Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Mobility Impariments, Multiple Disabilities, News, Opinion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation, Poverty, Psychiatric Disabilities, Rehabilitation, Remittances, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence, Volunteer Opportunities, Women | Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Croatia, CRPD, Cuba, disability, disability movement, disability rights, Gabon, guest blogging, Hungary, India, international development, Jamaica, Panama, publishing, We Can Do, writing |
Currently, We Can Do gathers news; announcements; academic papers; case studies; opinion pieces; information about resources; and other materials of interest to disabled advocates and international development professionals from a wide range of sources. In addition to these, from time to time, I write fresh content of my own.
I also hope to [...]
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Posted on 25 July 2007. Filed under: Introduction to "We Can Do", Uncategorized | Tags: disability, international development, We Can Do blog |
What is this blog about?
This blog is for anyone who wants to end poverty and oppression for poor disabled people in developing countries.
I plan to cover a wide range of topics.
Often I may simply point to a resource or web site that might be of interest to you.
Other times, [...]
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