SORRY, MY SECOND MESSAGED HAD A WRONG HEADING.
NAGASE OSAMU
> Disabled Peoples' International
> Sapporo Platform
> October 2002
>
> A DPI call to disabled people throughout the world:
>
> Peace
> As disabled people we are opposed to wars, violence and forms of
> oppression. Daily, men, women and children are being disabled by
> anti-personnel landmines and forms of armed destruction and torture.
> We must work for a world other where all people can live in peace
> and express their diversity and their desires.
>
> A Strong Voice of Our Own
> Disabled Peoples' International must continue to grow in strength
> and voice. We are the experts on our situation and we must be
> consulted at all levels, on all initiatives concerning us. If we
> are to achieve a strong voice we must be united in our work, we must
> build a strong organization. We must share our knowledge, our
> experiences and our resources and encourage youth leadership. We
> must use technology as a vehicle to communicate, to discuss and to
> promote our issues and concerns.
>
> Human Rights
> As a human rights organization, we must seek support for a
> convention that will protect and respect our human rights. We must
> educate our selves civil society as well as our government
> representatives at all levels. We must learn from the strategies
> and successes of others such as landmines survivors and women. Our
> rights are violated on a daily basis, we must continue to gather the
> evidence.
>
> Diversity Within
> In our work, our organization at all levels must ensure the
> inclusion of women, youth and other minorities. We must ensure
> participation through equality of language. We must strive to
> uphold our commitment to our official languages of French, Spanish
> and English and sign language. We are a cross disability
> organization and we must ensure all materials are accessible in
> format.
>
> Bioethics
> We must become part of the discussion on genetics and bioethics. We
> must assert our right to be different. We must repudiate any
> discussion that links the concept of "person" to a set of abilities.
> We must promote disability studies to change the image of disability
> in a positive way among academics.
>
> Independent Living
> Self-determination and independent livings is fundamental to our
> human rights. We must undertake a program of people with
> disabilities and civil society on the concept of independent living.
> We must consider our cultural different in adapting independent
> living in some counties.
>
> Inclusive Education
> Full participation starts in childhood in the classroom, in the play
> areas and in programs and services. When children with disabilities
> sit side by side with other children, our communities are enriched
> by the awareness and acceptance of all children. We must urge
> governments throughout the world to eradicate segregated education
> and to establish an inclusive education policy.
>
> International development
> International Development organization must evaluate their policies,
> programs and services to ensure the inclusion of disabled people.
> We must encourage our governments who financially support these
> agencies to include specific policies that ensure the full
> participation of disabled peoples by the provision of accessible and
> appropriate service delivery.
>
> Public Awareness
> Our issues are many - income generation, education, impact of
> poverty etc. We must educate civil society as well as our political
> representation on our concerns. We must use every opportunity to
> seek publicity and awareness. We must seek to change negative
> images of disabled people as equal participants in our society.
>
> Share the Knowledge
> As participants of this assembly, we are the fortunate few who have
> come here to listen to each other, to discuss our views and opinions
> and to reaffirm our communicate to our grass roots comrades what has
> taken place here. While we feel empowered by this great assembly of
> 3000 people we must now empower other who could not attend.
>
> This is our challenge. This is our task.
>
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