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Resources on Disability Rights and Policies
By Andrea Shettle, MSW | December 17, 2008
Handicap International has released a new CD on “Disability Rights and Policies.” Each of the 8 major sections of this CD offers an extensive range of reference documents and resources, in both English and French, related to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and to international development. The CD is targeted at organizations at all levels from local to international, and across many sectors including development, emergency relief, and human rights. It is meant to be used as a reference tool for any organization that supports inclusive development, including disabled people’s organizations (DPOs), public authorities, and service providers.
The content of the CD is grouped into 8 different thematic areas:
- Comprehension, awareness, and dissemination of disability issues: Resources that readers can use to help themselves better understand disability issues through a social and human rights paradigm–and to train others in disability awareness.
- Human Rights and Disability: Human rights training tools; information on the process for ratifying, implementing, and monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- The Human Rights Approach to Relief and Development: resources on how and why the international development field should incorporate a human rights approach into their programs
- Disability Policies: Strategies for Mainstreaming: Resources that international development organizations and agencies can use to mainstream disability issues into their policies and programs
- International Cooperation Policies on Disability in Emergency and Development: More on international development and disability inclusion, but with a focus on natural disasters, conflicts, and other emergency situations.
- Strengthening the Influence of Civil Society on the Disability Issue: Resources on how civil society organizations (for example, Disabled Peoples’ Organizations [DPOs]) can influence policy and advocate for their rights.
- Data and Studies on the Disability Issue: An extensive collection of resources and links with data and research studies related to people with disabilities around the world. Serious researchers will not want to overlook their link to the Washington City Group on Disability Measurement–a group that is working to improve the quality of research methodology into disability.
- Principal international actors and networks of civil society: find many of the major international organizations run by, or focused on, disability. (If these organizations aren’t enough for you, then also try the MIUSA database of disability organizations or try the United Nations Civil Society list).
The CD can be downloaded from the following website:
http://handicap-international.fr/bibliographie-handicap/
It is available in both English and French.
The CD also can be requested from Handicap International (info@handicap-international.us).
Learn more about the CRPD and also about the accompanying Optional Protocol.
Learn how you can become involved with the global campaign to promote the ratification and implementation of both the CRPD and the Optional Protocol in your country and elsewhere.
A slightly modified version of this article has also been posted at the We Can Do blog.
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