Contents for Issue no.9 July-August 2001
Independent Living
Researchers Find Limited Support for Independence in Japan: People With Physical And Mental Disabilities Face Two Distinct Sets Of Obstacles
When Chikako Kumora was a college student, she needed a job. She answered an ad to work as an assistant to a physically disabled woman, and was hired. She enjoyed the job, and became increasingly intrigued with the independent living movement...
Interview with Dr. Nawaf Kabbara
The Arab Organization of Disabled People is a coalition of organizations of disabled people in the Arab world. It was founded in 1998 in Egypt, and includes 14 other countries...
Globalizing Rights, Not Poverty: An Interview with Joshua Malinga
When Joshua Malinga traveled from his home in Zimbabwe to Winnipeg, Canada, to attend a disability studies meeting this June, he had more on his mind then the keynote speech he had to deliver. The trip returned Malinga to the birthplace of his activism...
Academics in the Service of Activism: Scholar/Advocates Engage in Participatory Action Research
Research projects used to be the pure products of brain and book, whose usual fate was to end up catalogued on dusty shelves. People with disabilities, and other socially disadvantaged groups, were once only fodder for the pronouncements of experts...
Independent Living briefly
Letter from Bulgaria...
Access and Technology
Toward a Barrier Free World for All
As I understand it, this program is part of a series of efforts to insure that the European Union appropriately addresses the concerns of people with disabilities in its organizational activities...
Multi-sensory technology goes to Braille users in Central America
The Trust for the Americas, a nonprofit arm of the Organization of American States (OAS) has appointed Estela Landeros, originally from Mexico, as Manager of its Program for People with Disabilities...
Major U.S. Study, "The Accessible Future," Attracts International Interest
On June 21, 2001, the US National Council on Disability (NCD) released a report entitled The Accessible Future...
A Report on Promotion of Non Handicapping Barrier Free Environment for Persons with Disabilities in India
Free India gradually realized that its disabled citizens too have the potential of nation building process...
Disabled Experts Strengthen Building Authority
Two of New Zealand's best-known disabled access experts have been appointed to the New Zealand Building Industry Authority...
Advocating for Universal Design Support from the World Bank
This is to communicate comments on behalf of Access Exchange International and to express our concern about the inadequate treatment of the accessibility needs of persons with disabilities in the recommendations of the Bank's draft Urban Transport Strategy Review...
Access and Technology briefly
New Global Website on Technology & Accessibility and Website Offers Free Training in Computer Solutions for Students with Disabilities
Employment
Disability and the Labor Market in Latin America
At the beginning of this paper, we engaged ourselves in searching extensively for information on disabilities and its relationship with economics, specifically with the labor market...
Rotary International Promotes Employment of Disabled Persons
Rotary International president Frank Devlyn has made helping disabled people to achieve self sufficiency through employment a top priority for 2000-2001...
Creating Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A New Initiative by the SAORI Business Cooperative
A movement is underway to create working places for people with intellectual disabilities by making use of SAORI weaving. This involves establishing a business cooperative that people with intellectual disabilities belong to...
Employment briefly
New Self-Employment Resource...
Governance and Legislation
Barrister Reviews Recent Irish Legislation
The recent decision of the Irish Supreme Court (Jamie Sinnott case) has focussed attention on the rights of persons with disabilities...
Electoral Participation of Citizens with Disabilities in Bangladesh: May - October 2001
The International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) has begun an effort in Bangladesh to promote greater participation by citizens with disabilities in national elections to be held in the Fall of 2001...
Interview: Ross Brereton, New Zealand's First Disabled Human Rights Commissioner
Ross Brereton has been a disability advocate for many years, the last six of them have been spent as New Zealand's first disabled Human Rights Commissioner...
Disability Activist Loses Race for Parliament Seat
Disability rights activist Keiko Higuchi ran up against political apathy and a media overly enamored with celebrity candidates in her unsuccessful bid for a seat in the Japanese Diet...
Asylum Fire in India Provokes Call for Government Intervention
A fire at a private asylum in Erwadi, India has killed 26 mentally ill individuals, some of whom had been chained to walls, floors, or beds to keep them from running away...
NZ Government Action on Disability Strategy
Eleven key government agencies have released their plans as a first step in the implementation of the NZ Government Disability Strategy...
Human Rights Decision Raises Issues for Families
A New Zealand Human Rights Complaints Review Tribunal decision Has established the rights of parents to be considered as paid caregivers of their adult intellectually disabled sons and daughters...
South African Parliamentarian Sees Improvements
"We have to be ourselves, and are not bound by the party," says disabled South African Member of Parliament Hendrietta Bogopane...
Disabled Britons Reported Killed in Atomic Testing
The Independent, a London newspaper, has reported that disabled Britons apparently were killed while being used test the effects of atomic bombs during the 1950s...
Arts and Media
Cinema Festival for Deaf People
The Chicago Institute for the Moving Image (CIMI) is holding a Festival of Cinema for the Deaf in Chicago on March 1-4, 2002 that will feature...
Film Review: Lars von Triers' The Idiots
When I was briefed to write about "the representation of disability in TV and film", I thought how am I going to write 1500 words on a subject that is virtually non-existent?...
Liebe Perla: a complex friendship and lost disability history captured on film
At the end of this unique documentary, there is often silence in the room as the audience works to take in the myriad of complexities, ambiguities, moral dilemmas and unanswered questions...
Mixed Opinions about U.S. Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
JFA received a number of strong responses to this week's posting about a protest against the Muscular Dystrophy Association Annual Telethon and the comments by Jerry Lewis...
And Now We Hear From "Stoppity" and other Telethon Protestors
As anticipated, my JFA posting of apologies by Jerry Lewis and MDA President Robert Bennett prompted many responses from JFA subscribers...
Arts and Media briefly
Audio Description Training Materials, Steve Brown Poetry, Books, etc., and Deaf Theater Artist in Residence
Women
Employment & Disabled Women to be discussed at International Disability Conference in Lebanon, September
One of the plenary sessions of the first International Conference on Disability and Inclusion, taking place in Beirut, September 10-21, will be devoted to "Employment and Women with Disabilities"...
Women and Disability in the United States: a reference book
A remarkable reference book examining disability issues as they relate to women in the United States has been produced by Lita Jans and Susan Stoddard of the Berkeley, California-based InfoUse company...
Building Disabled Women's Skills and Leadership in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, located north of Iran, east of the Caspian Sea and south of Russia, has a rich history and is home to some of the most ancient cities in the world...
Children and Youth
Disability-themed Books for Older Children and Teens: Definitely a New Genre in Children's Literature
Over the past two decades, most children's books on the topic of disability were either for younger children (preschool to Grade Three) or stressed teaching others about disability...
Children with Disabilities: Global Priorities
In preparation for the UN Special Session on Children, RI has reviewed current statistics, literature and international policy statements, and consulted with specialists in childhood disability. The following findings from these materials are sobering and underscore the urgency of raising the inclusion of children and youths with disabilities...
Inclusion International Issues Statement for UN Special Session on Children
The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children will be an opportunity to review our progress in protecting the rights of children since the World Summit on Children in 1990...
International News and Views
The Treaty for a Genetic Commons
One of the primary principles of the disability rights movement is that having a disability must come to be regarded as a normal part of living...
International Pressure on U.S. to End Death Penalty for Disabled Persons
U.S. death penalty laws - especially those permitting the execution of persons with intellectual disabilities - are increasingly controversial, both in the U.S. and around the world...
From the CBR Front Line in Tanzania: Chances for Children of Rural Moshi
CBR Management Course participants are set down two by two at various points outside Moshi in North-East Tanzania, where jeep tracks leave the road to lead up the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro...
Conferences and Events
First International Conference on Cognitive Disabilities
El Instituto de Capacitación "Los Álamos", convoca al Primer Congreso Internacional de Discapacidad Cognitiva, el cual se realizará en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia, del 27 al 29 de septiembre del año 2001
Multiple Sclerosis International Federation Conference
The Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF), based in London, is holding its 3rd biennial conference in Melbourne, September 30-October 5
Conference of the Nordic Network on Disability Research
The fifth annual conference of the Nordic Network is being organized on the theme, "Disability: Life and Quality," and held at the Copenhagen University of Education
Conference on Persistent Low Employment of Disabled People
The Persistence of Low Employment Rates for People with Disabilities: Causes and Policy Implications, October 18th-19th, 2001, The Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Call for Papers: Workshop on CBR Strategies in Prevention & Early Detection
Call for Papers: Workshop on CBR Strategies in Prevention & Early Detection, Karnataka, India, 17 - 19 November 2001
Techshare 2001
Techshare 2001 is being organized by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. It will take place November 27-28 in Birmingham, England on the theme, "Making Technology Make a Difference."
International Conference on Community Integration
Invitation to International Conference on Community Integration, Vietnam, December
Call for Papers: PacRim Disabilities Conference
Call for Papers: PacRim Disabilities Conference, Hawaii, March 2002
International Congress of the Cuban Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The second international congress of the Cuban Society will take place March 11-15, 2002 in Havana on the theme, "Rehabilitacion Integral."
RealTech: International Fair for Rehabilitation & Inclusion Technologies
RealTech, the international technolgy fair, is taking place March 21-24, 2002 in Sao Paulo under the sponsorship of the Brazilian Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Call for Papers: Western Social Science Assocation
The Section on Chronic Disease & Disability of the Western Social Science Association (the precursor of the Society for Disability Studies) will meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 10-13, 2002
International Conference on Providing Rehabilitation Services for Foreign-Born Persons
International Conference on Providing Rehabilitation Services for Foreign-Born Persons, Washington, D.C., May 2002
NorthEast Asia Rehabilitation Conference
This conference, to be held in Seoul, May 9-11, is being planned as a regional event to review the Asia & Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (1993-2002)
Call for Abstracts: International Disability Management Conference
First International Forum on Disability Management in Vancouver, Canada May 27 - 29, 2002
Resources & Book Reviews
Access-Able Travelin' Talk Newsletter
LA is a great big freeway as the song goes and the sheer size of it can make it challenging for disabled people...
The World's Premier Deaf Matchmaking Website is Launched
DeafMatchInternational.com was designed exclusively to bring together Deaf and Hard of Hearing people from all over the world so that they may form Pen Pals, make casual or lasting friendships, or find love and marriage...
Global Access Disabled Travel Network E-Zine
Power Wheels on San Diego Beach, Karragarra Island, Accessible Hot Air Balloon Rides, and more...
Disabled Travel Resource new to Hawaii
We're an Online Disabled Travel Resource for people with disabilities traveling to Hawaii...
Mulitple Sclerosis International Federation Publishes Treatment Management Guide
The most comprehensive reference book on the treatment and management of multiple sclerosis is now on the Internet...
New Book on European Disability Policy
This book aims to review and discuss the disability policies that were developed in six Western European countries in recent years...
Book Review: Encyclopedia on the U.S. Disability Rights Movement
For the past two years I've used Fred Pelka's encyclopedic book of the Disability Rights Movement as I would any standard reference...
UN Sets Up Disability Statistics Website
The United Nations Statistics Division is pleased to announce its new website on disability statistics...
Disability Buzz
UN Meetings Postponed, Father of International Mental Disability Movement Dies, Event Planned to Launch the African Decade, and more . . .
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