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Subject: 60 Articles & Announcements Posted in Latest Issue
ofDisabilityWorld
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:21:24 -0700
From: Jennifer Geagan <[log in to unmask]>
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60 Articles & Announcements Posted in Latest Issue of DisabilityWorld
The latest bi-monthly issue of DisabilityWorld, posted on the web at
http://www.disabilityworld.org , features interviews, news and in-depth
articles on
disability issues from 25 countries. In addition, this issue cites
requests
for papers or abstracts for 14 international conferences taking place in
2001-02, and reports on more than 20 recent studies, books, films and
websites .
Highlights
Disabilty Rights Interviews: Disability World reporter Laura Hershey
talks
with Nawaf Kabbara, Arab disability rights leader and Joshua Malinga,
founder
of African disability advocacy organizations, about their views &
achievements; and Robyn Hunt, DW reporter, interviews Ross Brereton,
New Zealand's first disability rights commissioner, on the eve of his
retirement.
Governance & Legislation:
DisabilityWorld staff member Lex Frieden of the USA reflects on
legislative
trends and lessons from Europe & North America; Reporter Anuradha Mohit
details India's legislative progress vis a vis environmental barriers;
Reporter Kay Schriner writes about recent actions supporting disabled
voters
in Bangladesh, and a Japanese disability advocate's race for a
Parliament
seat; and a New Zealand human rights tribunal considers rights of
parents to
be paid assistance providers.
Research:
Articles discuss recent Japanese research about the limited support for
independent living initatives in that country; and an analysis of new
Canadian Participatory Action Research, based on interviews with authors
of
university-based and comissioned studies.
International Initiatives:
A controversial Treaty for a "Genetic Commons" is introduced; and
proposed
priorities for Childhood Disability are presented by Inclusion
International,
the main NGO for people with intellectual disabilities; and by
Rehabilitation
International, focusing on the need for disabled children to be
identified,
counted and served in international assistance programs.
Arts & Media
In addition to this issue's featured photographer of the "Jaipur foot,"
articles cover the upcoming Cinema Festival for Deaf People, and
in-depth
film reviews of "The Idiots" and "Liebe Perla," an unresolved
examination of
treatment of people of short stature during the Holocaust.
Employment:
Featured articles cover the new Rotary International project to
encourage
employment of people with disabilities; the main position paper on
"Disability and the Labor Market" presented to the InterAmerican
Development
Bank at its 2001 conference in Chile; and a weaving cooperative in
Japan.
International Conferences: Calls for Papers and announcements of 14
international conferences are featured, from Fall 2001- Spring 2002,
including meetings in Melbourne, Copenhagen, Karnataka, Hanoi, Havana,
Seoul, Sao Paulo, Vancouver and various U.S. cities.
Developing Country Reports
CBR Frontline reporter M. Miles files his latest article from Tanzania;
Mobility International USA writes about its project to develop
leadership
among disabled women from Uzbekistan; and a new project to provide
Braille
in Central America is reported by the Organization for American States.
Studies & Book Reviews
Reporter Barbara Kolucki reviews several disability-themed books for
teenagers; technology Reporter Judy Wilkinson writes up the
just-released
U.S. study on "The Accessible Future," and reviewer Anthony Tusler
recommends
an encyclopedia of the U.S. disability rights movement.
New DisabilityWorld Features
In addition to a new streamlined style, features recently added by
webmaster
Steven Kurzman to make DisabilityWorld more useful and interactive
include:
"send this article to a friend," enabling any DW story to be emailed; a
more
powerful and reliable "search" mechanism; a "first draft" of a links
page;
the "postcard" feature, enabling the emailing of DW featured artwork;
and the
establishment of a database of abstracts of research and literature
concerning DW's main topics.
Send Your Views,News & Reviews
If you have international news or reviews or an opinion on an
international
disability issue, we want to hear from you. Send articles or
announcements in
English to Barbara Duncan,[log in to unmask], or in Spanish to
Rosangela Berman-Bieler, [log in to unmask]
DisabilityWorld is published every other month in English and every
other
month in Spanish, only on the web. DW is a collaborative project headed
by
the World Institute on Disability under the direction of Kathy Martinez,
with
the following partners: the Independent Living Research Utilization
program
of The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, the InterAmerican
Institute
on Disability, and Rehabilitation International. DisabilityWorld is
supported
by the U.S. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research,
under the guidance of project officer Eva Gavillan, Ph.D.
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