Disability World Links: Advocacy
- ADAPT
- American Disabled for Attendent Programs Today, the advocacy organization which is "fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions."
- Advocating Change Together
- The web site of ACT, a leading self-advocacy organization in the U.S. run by and for persons with developmental disabilities and their allies.
- Disability Rights
- The site of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission featuring "a range of resources and links on disability rights and discrimination issues."
- Disability Rights Advocates
- The site of Disability Rights Advocates, a U.S. based non-profit carrying out legal advocacy, with a branch in Hungary promoting accessibility and independent living.
- Disability Rights Movement
- The online version of the Smithsonian Institute's exhibit on the American Disability Rights Movement.
- Disabled Parents Network
- Disabled Parents Network is a national organisation (U.K.) of and for disabled people who are parents or who hope to become parents, and their families, friends and supporters.
- Disabled People South Africa (DPSA)
- "Disabled People South Africa (DPSA) has as it's motto "Nothing About Us Without Us" in recognition of the need for disabled people to directly promote the human rights and development of all South Africans with disabilities."
- Disabled Peoples' International
- An international organization working for the human rights of people with disabilities, with information about DPI and the magazine.
- Election Access.org
- Election Access.org is "the first and only clearinghouse for information on the participation of people with disabilities in the electoral process."
- Eucrea International
- Eucrea International is a non governmental organization for the promotion of equal opportunities for people with disabilities (all disabilities, all ages) in the areas of art, culture and media.
- European Disability Forum
- Web site of the European Disability Forum, which promoting equal opportunities for disabled people and ensuring disabled citizens' full access to fundamental and human rights by representing disabled people in dialogue with the European Union and other European authorities.
- Fundación ONCE (Organización Nacional de Ciegos de España)
- "La Fundación ONCE, atenta siempre a la realidad y a las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad, concentra sus objetivos en la integración laboral, la formación y el empleo para personas discapacitadas, y en la superación de las barreras que impiden o dificultan su plena integración en la vida económica, social y cultural."
- Human Rights and Disability
- United National High Commissioner for Human Rights, based in Geneva. The newly posted disabilty site has comprehensive information and full texts on the 2002 international study on human rights and disability, all UN treaty monitoring bodies and resolutions of the UN Human Rights Commission concerning disability.
- International Disability Alliance
- The IDA is comprised of 7 international membership organizations working together to present common voice on disability issues to UN agencies.
- Justice for All
- A disability rights organization, and an extensive and influential e-mail network formed 'to defend and advance disability rights' through providing alerts to rank-and-file organizations and individuals. Web site provides archives of past alerts and opportunity to sign up for the listserv.
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