Disability World Links: International Organizations
- 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.
- Source International Information Support Centre
- U.K based, international information resource center, with 20,000 resources concerning health and disability activities worldwide. Site is collaborative venture of 3 organizations: International Child Health, Healthlink Worldwide and Handicap International.
- The World Bank and Disability
- The site of the World Bank's Disability and Development team, providing information about disability-related topics, statistics, policies, and news from various regions.
- UN ESCAP Workshop on Women and Disability
- A site with detailed information about the Workshop, which was devoted to promoting full participation of Women with Disabilities in the Process of Elaboration on an International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
- UN Wire
- Site sponsored by the UN Foundation, offering a daily briefing on activities and press statements of the UN and its associated agencies, including UNICEF, ILO, WHO, and others.
- World Federation of the Deaf
- The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is an international non-governmental organisation representing approximately 70 million Deaf people worldwide. It is estimated that more than 80 percent of these 70 million live in developing countries, where authorities are rarely familiar with their needs or desires.
- Department of International Legal Affairs - OAS
- The Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities was adopted in Ciudad de Guatemala, on June 7, 1999, during the 29th regular session of the OAS General Assembly and entered into force on September 14, 2001....
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