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Subject: New Online Issue of DisabilityWorld Identifies Top 10
GlobalStories and Trends from 2003
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:33:58 -0800
From: Disability World <[log in to unmask]>
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The latest issue of the leading international online periodical,
DisabilityWorld, was posted on January 9, 2004
http://www.disabilityworld.org
comprising 75 articles from international organizations and 26
countries.
The previous issue of DisabilityWorld received 31,558 visits, 53,441
page
views and 330,769 hits during the November-December period.
Features in this issue include:
· A global view of the top 10 stories and trends from 2003
· Interviews with disability rights activists from Finland &
Guatemala
· Highlights of the International Abilympics held in India
· Executive Summary of Dutch conference on Disability& Development
· 2004 proclaimed Ibero-American Year of Disabled Persons
· Ombudsman promises European Disability Directive
· UN Millennium Goals do not include disability concerns
· Prestigious awards in December for leaders from China, UK and
USA
· Mayor of London reports on abuse of disabled persons
· Colombian Senator likes life on one leg
· International rights group reports on situation of disabled
children in Nepal
· Progress report on Independent Living in Latin America
· Japanese community integrates people with emotional impairments
· A society for all demanded in Argentina
· Disability rights: a view from Kazakhstan
· Whirlwind Wheelchair International launches industrialization
project
· Spain highlights unemployment of disabled women
· “Mama Wahunzi” documents unequal access to wheelchairs in Africa
· Report on self-employment in developing countries
· Winners of Munich’s international short film festival
· Leveraging policy and legislation in South Africa
· UK Disability Rights Commission comments on new disability bill
· Measurable progress in good governance in Costa Rica & Guatemala
· Calls for entries in film festivals & photography contests
· Disability in popular song
· Wheelchairs for a small world
· Celebrating international disability day in Kenya & New Zealand
· Book review: old civilizations, young special needs ideas
· Book review: disability policy reforms in Central Europe
· Disability studies journals
· European Union report on disability rights in the accession
countries
DisabilityWorld is a collaborative project supported by a grant from the
U.S. National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Participating organizations are the World Institute on Disability,
Rehabilitation International, Independent Living Research Utilization
and
the Inter-American Institute on Disability. To contribute news or
articles
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