Contents: Issue no. 11 November-December 2001
Independent Living
Research on the Violation of Human Rights of Deaf People in Mozambique
The Mozambican Forum of Disabled People Associations (FAMOD), commissioned research on the violation of human rights of deaf people which took place last year, in Maputo City and Sofala and Zambezia Provinces...
"Nothing About Us Without Us," Some Historical Reflections on the Disability Movement in South Africa
Disability in South Africa has to be viewed against the background of the liberation struggle. During the 1980s and early 1990s disabled people were part of that struggle and today...
Deaf/Blind Services Now Funded in New Zealand
Deaf/blind New Zealanders have received the first official recognition that they have a unique disability, and that they have particular communication, mobility and learning needs...
Disabled South Africans Protest New Benefits Criteria
People with disabilities in South Africa marked the International Day of Disabled Persons on December 3 by asking the government to suspend its implementation of strict new criteria for accessing social assistance grants...
Independent Living briefly
Disability Culture & Independent Living, IL Searchable Database, and more...
Access and Technology
Breaking Barriers Award - And the winners are...
For the occasion of the European Day of Disabled People 2001, the European Commission in collaboration with the European Disability Forum is inviting organisations to take part in a Design-for-All competition...
Copyright Law Pits Disability Access against Intellectual Property Rights
As a result of writing a software program that allows Adobe Ebooks to be copied, Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was charged with violating the U.S.'s Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998...
Opening New Avenues Towards a Barrier-Free Japan
An epoch making subway Tokyo's No.12 subway line, which is named the Oedo Line (literally means the "Great Edo Line") started operation in December 2000, more than ten years after construction was first started...
ACB Radio Schedule Available for any Time Zone
ACB Radio International (ACBRI) provides programming of interest to blind people around the world. Sponsored by the U.S.'s American Council of the Blind...
British "TextDirect" Telephone System Provides Greater Access to Deaf & Speech-impaired Users
The International Coalition of Access Engineers and Specialists (ICAES) announced the winners of its 2001 International Access Engineering Awards...
Yes, You Can Search the Web without Direct Access to the Web
Many people have access to email but can't go online to connect to the worldwide web. However, much of the information found on the internet is available to non-web users...
Access and Technology briefly
Employment Resource for People with Disabilities In the Performing Arts and Other Media-Related Occupation, New Euro a Challenge to Blind People, Russian Government Resumes Producing Special Cars for Disabled Drivers, and more...
Employment
European Conference on Employment & Disability Held in Brussels, December 2001
More than 100 participants attended this event, timed to just follow the European activities for International Day of Disabled People on December 3...
U.K. Disability Rights Commission Critiques Government Plans to Reduce Workplace Discrimination
Government plans for implementing new European Union (EU) anti-discrimination laws don't fully address the disability rights agenda, stated the United Kingdom Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in a press release...
ILO Code Seeks to Improve Job Prospects of Persons with Disabilities
On the International Day of Disabled Persons, the International Labour Organization announces the launch of its Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace...
People with Disabilities and Employment in Mozambique
People in Mozambique with disabilities, estimated at 10% of the total population within a country according to WHO, continue to face difficult lives without access to any basic services...
Mozambique Passes Law to Protect Workers with AIDS
The two main political parties in Mozambique have joined forces to approve a law protecting the rights of employees with HIV/AIDS...
U.S. Small Business Administration Explores Disability and Entrepreneurship
The Bush administration's focus on fresh approaches to employment in all sectors is evidenced by its sponsorship of a National Leadership Summit on Disability and Entrepreneurship, held in Washington, D.C. on January 10 and 11...
Thailand: 500 Disability Advocates Demonstrate in Bangkok against Employment Discrimination
On the morning of Nov 27, 2001, approximately 500 people with disabilities and our supporters gathered in front of the Government House...
Top Supported Employment News of 2001
Early in the year, the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) issued its final rules that removed sheltered work, otherwise known as extended employment, from accepted employment outcomes funded by vocational rehabilitation (VR)...
Employment briefly
Disabled Entrepreneurs Network Established in Britain, Australian Government Challenged for Supporting Employment Discrimination...
Governance and Legislation
Nearly 10% of Scotland's Local Councillors Have Disabilities
The Disability Rights Commission of Scotland reports that 9.8% of local authority Councillors identify themselves as having a disability...
Arts and Media
Disability in the Afghan School
Here is another story from a series of short radio broadcasts translated into Pushto and beamed to Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan's North West Frontier some years ago...
Updates from the Cinema for the Deaf Festival 2002
Since the birth of cinema, filmmakers have ignored the needs of deaf spectators. Deaf actors, directors and filmmakers have struggled to create a genre that reflects the physical and cultural differences of their audience...
Seeking Disabled African-American Student for Documentary
State of the Art, Inc. is currently looking individuals with disabilities, and their families, to be profiled in a documentary video and/or a notebook...
Call for Entries: 4th Disability Film Festival, London
This is the only film festival worldwide, run by and dedicated to disabled artists...
Moscow Disability Film Festival
Perspektiva, a Russian Disability Organization, together with the Moscow City Hall, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and the World Institute on Disability invites you to participate in the first Russian International Disability Film Festival "Breaking Down Barriers"...
Employment Resource for People with Disabilities In the Performing Arts and Other Media-Related Occupation
The Media Access Office (MAO) is a program sponsored jointly by the California Governor's Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons and the State Employment Development Department...
Disabled New Zealand Media Personality Wins International Fellowship
Well-known New Zealand disability media personality Mike Gourley has won the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship in Mental Health Journalism...
Film Review: A World Without Bodies
In the early days of the Hitler regime, hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities, as defined by the Nazis, were forcibly sterilized...
Call for Entries: Superfest 2002, International Disability Media Festival
SUPERFEST XXII, International Media Festival on Disabilities, seeks entries of works about disability or by mediamakers with a disability...
Women
Needs of Disabled Women Cited by UN Meeting of Afghan Women
A meeting of 40 Afghan women was held December 10-11, 2001 in Brussels for a roundtable on "Building Women's Leadership in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan"...
Gender, Disability & Development Report Issued
In early January 2002 Mobility International USA (MIUSA) announced publication of Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies...
Interview with Betty Gray, Owner of Alice's Relaxing Bath Shop, Oakland, California
Betty Gray is a small business owner in Oakland who was one of the featured speakers at the Conference on Employment and Women with Disabilities," held 1999 in Oakland, California by Rehabilitation International and the World Institute on Disability...
Sylvia Quan, Disability Advocate, Guatemala
Syvia Quan was one of the emerging, young disabled leaders selected for the Training and Advocacy event, held in association with the UN Beijing+5 meetings in New York...
Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Chilean Lawyer and Advocate
Ms. Maria Soledad, a blind lawyer specializing in disability law cases, was one of the selected participants in the Beijing+5 Training & Advocacy Initiative for Young, Disabled Women...
Susana Stiglich, Disability Advocate, Peru
Susana Stiglich, a deaf disability advocate, was selected as one of the participants in the RI/WID Beijing+5 training and advocacy event and she provided the following updates to her work in early 2001...
Women briefly
Opportunity for Thespian Wannabees:Berkeley Disabled Women's Theatre, Rape of Deaf Woman Provokes Protest in Bangladesh, ISIS International Publishes Volume on Women and Disabilities in Asia...
Children and Youth
Great Britain Launches "Educating for Equality" Campaign
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has announced that it will conduct an Educating for Equality Campaign, beginning in 2002 to improve educational opportunities for children and youth with disabilities in Great Britain...
French Court Rules Parents Should Be Compensated for Birth of Child with Down Syndrome
The Cour de Cassation, France's high court of appeals, has ruled that the parents of a boy who has Down syndrome should be compensated because he was born...
Interior Minister Launches Pakistan's First Child Help Line
On May 30, 2001 the Government of Pakistan announced the launching of "Madadgaar," the country's first Child Help Line...
How to Disable Asian Children: Book Reviews
These two books round off a millennium of abuse reports, with studies by two Asian women who are also coming to terms with their own childhoods. The two complement and contrast with one another in curious ways...
South African Children Learning about Disability: Media Review of SOUL Buddyz
SOUL Buddyz is a very popular radio and television programme for South African children. It is designed to help children, pre-teens and adolescents, their parents and other caregivers, to deal with everyday problems...
International News and Views
Disability & Development Web Initiative in Denmark
WWW.disability.dk is a site devoted to people working in the field of disability & developing countries. The site has been initiated by DSI - Danish Disability Council, but with a strong connection to grassroots and NGOs in developing countries...
New International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
The Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly, during its meeting on May 22, 2001, unanimously approved the resolution on the 2nd edition of the classification of functioning, disability and health...
International Day of Disabled People in Latin America
The UN established the International Day of Disabled Persons in 1983. Each year, all over the world, people celebrate all that the disability community has accomplished in terms of equal human and civil rights for persons with disabilities...
Disability Culture in New Zealand Celebrated on International Day
Disabled and non-disabled people celebrated the UN International Day of Disabled people in one of the country's most prestigious and culturally significant venues on Sunday, December 2nd...
Bush Administration Issues Awaited Olmstead Report Outlining Policies to Advance Community-Based Programs
On June 18, 2001, President Bush signed Executive Order No. 13217, "Community-Based Alternatives for Individuals with Disabilities." The Order called upon the federal government to assist states to implement swiftly the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C....
Report on Recent Events held in the Iberian-American Region
Recent events in Chile, Costa Rica, Portugal, Boliva, and more...
South Africans Celebrate International Disability Day, Knowing Exclusion is Still Dominant Experience
The rights of people with disabilities were in the spotlight on December 3 when millions of people throughout the world commemorated the International Day of Disabled Persons...
European Spine Society Calls for Entries for Research Prize
The Spine Society of Europe has announced that several prizes for research will be awarded at the EuroSpine 2002 meeting in Nantes, France, September 11-14...
Inclusion Daily Express Top Disability Rights Stories of 2001
These are the events that I believe have had, or will have, the greatest impact on the largest number of people with disabilities and their allies...
European Union Ministers of Social Affairs Declare 2003 European Year of People with Disabilities
On 3 December, the Ministers of Employment and Social Affairs unanimously adopted the Commission proposal to declare 2003, the European Year of People with Disabilities...
Conferences and Events
Disability Studies Quarterly Call for Papers: Disability and Sexuality
Although academicians and disability studies scholars have been discussing the complexity of the disability experience for many years, the sexual lives of individuals within this community have remained veiled at various levels...
8th National/1st International Conference on Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities
This is the only ongoing Conference on the topic of abuse of people with disabilities. We traditionally have a program of excellence, including speakers at the top of their fields. We provide an array of workshops...
Conference on VideoConferencing in Deaf Education, Arizona, March 2002
Gallaudet University, The Arizona Schools for the Deaf and Blind, and the California School for the Deaf - Riverside will hold the Third Annual Conference on Videoconference Technology in Deaf Education...
Second Notice: Chronic Disease & Disability Conference
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...
Call for Presenters to International Conference on Employment Strategies
Goodwill Industries International, Inc., (GII) and the Ray Marshall Center for theStudy of Human Resources at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (University of Texas at Austin) are pleased to announce an international policy forum, "Promising Practices, Promising Policies: Inclusion of the Hardest to Serve in the 21st Century Workforce," to be held April 22-24, 2002...
Disability and Queerness: The First International Conference
The last three decades have witnessed the emergence and growth of both the disability rights movement and the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered rights movement. Disability Studies has laid ground in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, establishing disability as a vital, viable field of research....
Reframing Disability - AHEAD Conference 2002
AHEAD invites proposals for its twenty-fifth annual conference 2002. The Association provides opportunities for professional development to those who work to assure equal opportunities and full participation for faculty, staff and students with disabilities in higher education...
Summer in Finland
EASYTEX 2002, a Conference promoting good-looking, functional clothing and other textile products to make daily life easier for disabled and elderly people, is being held at the Scandic Hotel Rosendahl, close to the Centre of Tampere, Finland...
Call for Papers: Computers & Disability Conference, Austria, July 2002
The ICCHP conferences focus on all aspects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for people with disabilities and elderly people...
Call for Papers: International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies, Hungary, September 2002
This 4th international conference on this topic will take place September 18-20 in Veszprem and is intended to review how advances in the general area of virtual reality can be used to assist people with disabilities...
Third International Conference on Family Care
Family caregiving knows no international boundaries. Whether in China, Guatemala, France, Japan, the United States or any other country, family caregivers face increasing stress and health burdens as they try to cope with the demands of caring for relatives while balancing work and family...
Disabled Peoples' International 6TH World Assembly
Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) is proud to announce its international and most significant event, the DPI 6th World Assembly, which will take place on 15 - 18 October 2002, in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan...
RI European Conference on "Networking in Practice," Germany, November 2002
The eighth European Conference of Rehabilitation International will take place November 11-15 in Aachen, Germany, on the theme of "Networking in Practice"...
Pathways 6 Conference Expression of Interest & Call for Papers
We invite your participation in the Pathways 6 Conference, which will be held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from 1-4 December 2002...
Resources & Book Reviews
Everything You Need To Know About Autism
Many of you have asked us how to decrease power struggles with children with autism and have a more happy, peaceful day to day experience in families, schools and community...
BENT: Literature by Gay, Disabled Men
It's 2002 and BENT celebrates the beginning of its third full year of publication...
Cyprus Braille Newsletter Reports on Numerous Disability Activities
For this current issue I have chosen amongst others, an article concerning the factual and legal situation of people with disabilities in Cyprus, by Michael Florentzos, President of our Organization...
Book Review: The New Disability History--American Perspectives
To some ways of thinking, disability is a medical condition; to others, it is a curse. Another view, purportedly more enlightened but actually reflecting a deep discomfort with the subject, holds that disability is really nothing at all, a minor difference best overlooked and unmentioned...
Mad in America: Announcement of Provocative New Book
MAD IN AMERICA (Perseus Press), a new book by Robert Whitaker, a prize winning science journalist, is sure to cause a stir. Whitaker holds psychiatry's feet to the fire by examining the evidence...
A Telling Silence: Spectrums of Dutch Remembrance of World War II
"A Telling Silence: Spectrums of Dutch Remembrance" is a book that examines the varied impacts World War II had on 38 citizens and the approaches they have developed to commemorating it...
New Resources Available in Spanish
A new book by Dr. William Shaw on this condition has been translated into Spanish called Biological Treatments of Autism and PDD. This is a guide on practical ways in which those who deal with this condition can better their quality of life...
Call for Teaching Materials on Sociology & Disability
The American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center invites submissions to its revised Instructional Materials for Sociology and Disability Studies...
Disability Buzz
Rosangela Berman Bieler and Barbara Duncan, the co-editors of Disability World, took a look back and selected the following five stories from 2001 that we believe will have a long range impact on the international disability community...
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