A bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views • Issue no. 15 September-October 2002

home page - text-only home page Contents: Issue no. 15 September-October 2002 Independent Living Rehabilitation: a Norwegian expert asks if it's still a useful concept? Disability Rights Activists from Cyprus explore Chicago scene We are a normal family! Information services for persons with disabilities in Peru: Problems and needs Access and Technology Bionic in our future? Mainstreaming our bodies? Is this what we are looking for? Brazil: Banks obliged to stop discriminating against persons with disabilities Colombia: comprehensive Bogota bus company will be made completely accessible by the year 2004 A first in the Netherlands: a hotel pays accessibility damages Dasher: New Software by British Scientists Enables Liberation from QWERTY Keyboard Egypt for All The Art of Ergonomics Accessible Berlin Hotel Managed by Disabled People European Union Places Full Internet Access High on its Agenda Japan: Myriad of Developments for Mobile Phone Users Accessibility Report on Theatres in Peru Now Available Students in Argentina Invent New Braille Conversion Software Universal Literature Made Accessible to Blind Readers Employment A Supported Employment Project for Young Disabled Persons in Argentina A Business Consideration: are people with disabilities a market or an obligation? Consulting Firms Advise Businesses on Accessing the People-With-Disabilities Market 'Changing the World for People with Disabilities-One Business at a Time': Seeing People with Disabilities as a Market Non-profit company bridges digital divide for poor and disabled Cambodians Italy: a statistical overview of employment & disability Disability & Employment in the USA: National Overview based on 2000 Census Poland: New Vocational Rehabilitation Policies A Brighter Vision for the Future: Technology Training for Visually Impaired People in India Viet Nam's Disabled Citizens Fight Employment Discrimination Governance and Legislation Spain approves law to enable access of persons with disabilities to the information society New International Website on Making Democracy Accessible Indian State Government Sets Disability Quotas in Top Posts Kenya Government Proposes New Voting Rules for Disabled Persons Arts and Media Creating Products that Sell Well: People with Intellectual Disabilities Creating Artistic Works for Sale Community Dance for All The Second Annual Festival of Cinema for the Deaf Colombian deaf students in television production Freak Shows: Demeaning Depictions or Empowering Employment? More than 500 adults and children turn out for First Moscow International Disability Film Festival Innovative New Information Resources from New Zealand Arts & Culture Projects in New Zealand Changing Attitudes: An Overview of Awareness Raising about Disability in South Africa Arts and Media briefly Call for Entries: Superfest 2003 & Call for Nominations for Scholarships in the Visual Arts Women The Girl Who Asked Why: William Rowland interviews Hendrietta Bogopane, M.P. An Athlete Speaks: Adeline Dumapong Talks About Winning the Paralympics and Her Life Today International Congress on Women and Disability Latina Disabled Women Make Progress The Triple Oppression: Disability, Race and Gender U.S. Congress Holds Briefing on the Status of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities Swaziland Federation Organization of Disabled People Develops Women's Program Children and Youth Access to an Equal Education for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Russia International News and Views Deaf Way II: Celebration of the Deaf Way of Life Focus Groups Being Held on "People with Disabilities on Tribal Lands: Education, Health Care, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Independent Living" An Economic Forum in the U.S. Involving Businesses, Trade Unions, NGOs, & the Bush Administration: a disability perspective Short-Term Consultant Needed For Evaluation of Guyana CBR programme Independent Living Centers and other Projects Serving U.S. based Latinos European Congress Adopts Madrid Declaration about Discrimination A Mexican scientist studies the retina to prevent blindness First Resource Center in Latin America for People who are Deaf and Blind Ecuador's President Receives International Roosevelt Award at UN Headquarters Spain: Resolution calls for replacing the term mental retardation with intellectual disability Resources & Book Reviews Access-Able/Travelin-Talk Newsletter, Volume V Number 10 (October) Manual for parents and teachers: "The process of understanding and being understood" Disability Buzz home page - text-only home page