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RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008!
By Andrea Shettle, MSW | March 29, 2008
Welcome to the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008!
For this event, writers and bloggers around the world wrote a collection of blog posts to help celebrate and promote the international disability rights treaty, called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD is the first international legally binding human rights instrument to protect the rights of people with disabilities. This post pulls together all the links to all the blog swarm contributions in one place for your convenience. We hope you enjoy these offerings–and perhaps learn from them as well. Click on the title of each post to read it. Then hit the back arrow in your browser to come back here and read the next item in the blog swarm!
The Blog Swarm!
Pam VanderVeer at Entropy Fighter gives a broad overview of why the CRPD matters to people with disabilities around the world and winds up with a call for the United States to ratify it at her post entitled Revolutionary Human Rights Treaty Close to Becoming International Law.
Scott Rains at Changemakers explains how the CRPD may help people with disabilities in the fields of travel and universal design in The United Nations Speaks Out on Inclusive Tourism: The CRPD. This post also offers a slide show on universal design and links to many sites that readers can use to educate themselves about the CRPD and tourism. (Depending on your web browser, you might need to scroll down the screen to find his March 21 entry.)
Scott Rains also wrote another, shorter note at another blog (Tips from the T-List). This one is about article 30 in the CRPD, which is of particular relevance to tourists with disabilities.
Mahesh Chandrakesar discusses how the CRPD represents an evolution in attitudes toward disability from the medical/charity model toward the social and rights-based model in his article, A Paradigm Shift from ‘Charity’ to ‘Rights and Dignity’: A write-up based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). He doesn’t have a blog, but he has a web site with a collection of articles on disability rights.
Andrea Shettle at We Can Do offers an allegorical tale that explains why the CRPD is well-worth celebrating–and why our work isn’t yet done–in The Farmer, the Spoon, and the Plow. A plow is not a magic potion that will solve all that ails, and neither is the CRPD. But it can be a powerful tool that could transform lives–if we all learn how to use it.
Lauro Purcil from the Philippines reminds us why it is critical to devote ourselves to the struggle to ratify the disability rights treaty by taking us back in time to 1985. Hosted here at RatifyNow, Aren’t They Rights? Then Why Struggle to Enjoy Them?.
Jo-An Partridge, a guest blogger hosted at RatifyNow, offers a tongue-in-cheek list of rights that she is still fighting for in Australia in Celebrating the 1st anniversary of the international disability rights treaty. Perhaps the CRPD will help!
Says Deepti Samant at her blog "A Pensieve for Clippings," although India already has legislation intended to allow people with disabilities to exercise their rights, people with mental disabilities were effectively excluded from that protection. But now India has ratified the CRPD, and that creates The Hope for a Just Future for Indians with Mental Disabilities.
Michele Magar, guest columnist at the California Progress Report, shares her story of how she watched the birth of the US disability rights movement in the 1970s, then the birth of the CRPD in the 1990s, then the birth of RatifyNow. Then she answers the question of exactly why the United States should sign the CRPD, both for the sake of Americans with disabilities and for people with disabilities around the world. Don’t miss the list of bulleted statistics and her advice on how you can educate yourself about the CRPD. In The Advocacy Opportunity of a Lifetime for an Attorney from the Bay Area, Birthplace of the Disability Rights Movement.
Marlene Chait, Ed.D makes the link between Personal assistance services, sexuality education, sexual expression, and the CRPD in her blog post hosted at RatifyNow. In another blog post, My Personal Goals for Justice for All, she highlights one example of how existing US legislation fails to adequately protect the rights of some people with disabilities and how the CRPD might help.
Doug Hay writes on the challenges that confront indigenous disabled people in achieving human rights in New Zealand in his blog post hosted at ReunifyGally, Disabled Liberation — Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Dr. Erin Martz makes the case for why the United States should ratify the CRPD in her guest column at the JFActivist blog, Why the United States Should Ratify the UN CRPD.
Jill Ford at FibroFog briefly acknowledges the CRPD.
Roshni Devi from Fiji wishes to say, Happy Anniversary, CRPD!.
Thank You!
Of course this blog swarm would not have been possible without the involvement and assistance of a great many people. The name at the top of this post (mine) is the most visible one, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s the only one! In no particular order, thank you to Pam, Joe, Michele, Sylvia, Tirza, Anne, and Stacey–all members of RatifyNow who have helped in many indispensible ways from sharing their much-needed advice to helping out with publicity. Thank you to all the individuals who helped publicize the blog swarm, either by posting a notice at their blog, circulating a notice, or talking to people they know. I hesitate to even try listing names for fear I will miss some. In fact, I know I would miss some because there are probably people who helped without my awareness. Whether your help was visible or not, thank you. Of course, I particularly thank the writers who took time from their busy schedules to write blog posts for this event. There would be no blog swarm without blog posts!
And last, but never least: Thank YOU for taking the time to read the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008!
Will there be another RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm in the Future?
We have not yet set a date. But very possibly there will, if not sooner then later. Keep your eye on the RatifyNow.org web site for further details. Bear in mind that the CRPD is due to enter full legal force in May. Whether or not there will be another blog swarm in the near future, you can be sure that there will be much to celebrate then–and that RatifyNow will be involved!
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