A bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views • Issue no. 12 January-March 2002

home page - text-only home page Contents: Issue no. 12 January-March 2002 Independent Living   Colombia: 22 Countries Join in "Building Opportunities for All" Workshops    Disability Rights Advocates Group Expands Internationally   Individual Development Accounts: Opportunity for the U.S. Disability Community   Better Services Needed for People with Mental Illness: Message to Prime Minister of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, the Mass Media, and the People of Japan   Proyecto Vision Launched: First National Technical Assistance Center for U.S. Latinos with Disabilities   Independent Living briefly   MIUSA Summer Exchange Program in Latin America for Young Adults, Two New CD ROMS Available on International Exchange and Disability, New Online Archive of Disability History, and more... Access and Technology  U.S. Launches Project to Enabled Sharing of Scanned Books by NonPrint Readers   Empowering Blind Persons through Information and Communications Technology in India   Accessible Cities Project in Ekaterinburg, Russia   Resources in Access and Technology Available in Spanish   Thailand Involves Blind People in Production of Digital Books   Access and Technology briefly   New British Cane for Blind Based on Bats... Employment  U.K. Leader Proposes Testing for Remaining in Disability Benefits Program   Web-Based Certificate Series on Supported Employment   Claims Incidence of Work-Related Disorders of the Upper Extremities: Washington State, 1987 through 1995   Insufficient Concern: Attitudes Toward Employment & Disability Analyzed in Britain   Conference Examines Persistent Low Employment Rates of Disabled People In U.S.   U.K. Disability Rights Commission Critiques Government Plans to Reduce Workplace Discrimination   Disability in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Rethinking Disability   Who Returns to Work and Why?   Looking for a Job in Russia, or, Missing One Little Piece of Paper   International Employment Policy Think Tank Conference Held in Houston   Work-Wage Relationships and Individuals with Disabilities   Governance and Legislation  "Ministers, Actions Speak Louder Than Words!" Say Australians with Intellectual Disability and their Families   Costa Rican Forum Establishes Human Rights Network   Costa Rica Holds First Presidential Debate on Disability   German Parliament Passes Equal Rights Law for Disabled People   Ghana's Disability Community Presses for National Council   Protests Force Withdrawal of Irish Disability Bill   Governance and Legislation in South Africa: a contemporary overview   South Africa: Forcing Open the Doors of Delivery   Disabled Woman Wins "Ordinary" Seat on Ugandan Council   Arts and Media  Epilepsy in the Afghan Village   Disability Arts & Culture: Recent Developments   Excellent New Film about Differences in Learning   Mental Health Advocacy Groups Claim "A Beautiful Mind" Distorts Truth about Nash   "Breaking Down Barriers": First International Moscow Disability Film Festival   Disability and the Oscars   Disabled Comedian stars at Mardi Gras in Australia   Photography Exhibit of Australians with Disabilities Explores Sexuality, Disability and Body Image   Portrayal of Disability in Recent Films: Notes   Singing Voices Create Harmony Across Borders   Forbidden Wedding: Brazilian Film Explores Religious Restrictions on Marriage of Disabled Persons   Women  Disabled Nigerian Women Call for Anti-Discrimination Measures   Children and Youth  Education of Children with Mental Handicap In Mozambique   The Desperate Situation of Children with Disabilities in Russian Institutions   International News and Views  European Congress on Cued Speech Held in Brussels   Current Events in Cuba, Colombia & Venezuela   Disability Groups in Gambia Press for Human Rights   International Disability Alliance Focuses on Proposed UN Convention   Mozambique: Using the International Day of Disabled People to Lobby   Ibero-American Network of People with Disabilities Created by Agreement of 11 Countries   U.S. State Department Reports on Rights of Disabled People around the World   News from 11 Ibero-American Countries   "Cripple-Tribunal + 20" Held in Germany   Resources & Book Reviews  U.S. Disability Research Institute Newsletter   The Drum Beat - Issue 133   International Disability & Rehabilitation Journals: a (relatively) brief review   Book Reviews: Two New International Collections on Disability & Culture   Resources on Disabilities Available in Spanish  U.S. Disabled Students Can Find Support for Studying Abroad, if Career-related   Resources briefly   Inclusion Research Institute Starts Free Weekly Report, Revamped DisabilityTimes.com Returns as News.DisabilityWebGuide, and New RADAR Tracks Disability News... Disability Buzz The Oscars, a United Nations Convention on disability rights?, Harold Russell: in Memoriam... home page - text-only home page