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How Was the CRPD Born? Share Your Story

Readers who were involved with the negotiation process for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) may wish to share their stories with the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP). This could be an important means of documenting the history of how the CRPD was created. The following text is taken directly […]

Albanian Disability Rights Foundation to Monitor Disability National Strategy

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 […]

Comparing International Disability Laws: Bibliographic Web Resource

Until recent years, disability rights advocates, human rights lawyers, and other people who share an interest in comparing national and international laws related to people with disabilities faced challenges in finding the information they needed. But the task of looking up exactly what laws, constitutions, and international treaties say about people with disabilities around the […]

Disabled People in China Continue to Face Discrimination

China has made progress in confronting discrimination toward people with disabilities–but significant problems remain, Human Rights Watch recently told the media. Human Rights Watch is a major international organization that monitors the status of human rights around the world.
Sophie Richardson, a representative of Human Rights Watch, praised China for creating laws that protect people with […]

African Decade of Persons with Disabilities Extended to 2019

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 African Union (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, […]

Forced Psychiatric Treatment is Torture, Says United Nations

[Note: The following press release from the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry refers to a recent Interim Report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. For more information on that report, or to download a copy, go to http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disability/torture.htm and also go to http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disability/index.htm.]
Date: September 24, 2008
The Center […]

The Right to Mobility Aids, Accessibility in South-Eastern Europe

Countries that have chosen to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are now required to protect the right of people with disabilities to personal mobility; and to an accessible environment. But disabled people in the South-Eastern countries of Europe, such as Kosovo, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, […]

People with Disabilities in Zimbabwe: Poor, Ignored

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 from both […]

Finding and Publicizing Disability Rights Organizations

People now have one more way that they can look for organizations run by and for people with disabilities around the world.  And Disabled Peoples’ Organizations have one more way they can make sure that people around the world are able to learn about their organization and the work they do.
The United Nations Enable website, […]

Disability Awareness Action Newsletter, Our Rights, Issue 1

Thank you to Disability Awareness Action for giving its open permission to disseminate their newsletter. People who wish to receive future issues should contact them directly to inquire.
Our Rights - issue 1, July 2008

text only version
DAA’s newsletter for Disability LIB.
In the interest of solidarity, this newsletter is send around by email […]