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In this Issue:
Segregated and Exploited - Call to Action | International Online Training on Portage Early intervention and inclusion in CBR | Newsletter : Our Rights - Issue No 29 - Jan 2011 | Release of InterAction's 2011 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book | Disability Voice 8 | May the entry into force be with you! | E-Access Bulletin, January 2011 | Human Rights factsheets - Rights and freedoms in practice: teaching resources | Learn more about the issue of inclusive education for children with disabilities with our short videos | Assistive technology, human rights and poverty | India: NBFCs should not discriminate against people with disabilities | U.S., Russia partner to eradicate polio around the world | Thailand: Technology aids the disabled | Nigeria: The Employees Compensation Act 2010 includes disability compensation | Nigeria to Develop Entrepreneurship Programmes for the Disabled | Project to Help Students With Disabilities Launched in Kigali, Rwanda | Social Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: Cabs for the Disabled | China: Meeting the health challenge | Bolivia: People with Disabilities Demanding Rights and Payment | BBC Ouch! disability newsletter | Subscription Details
Segregated and Exploited - Call to Action (Back to Top)
From: Frank Mulcahy [log in to unmask]
Hi folks,
A report has just been issued in the USA. The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), releases ITS new report and CALL TO ACTION- Segregated and Exploited -Call to Action: The Failure of the Disability Service System to Provide Quality Work on Sheltered workshops calls for the end of sub minimum wage workshops and the financial exploitation of people with disabilities.
http://tinyurl.com/6e8mlz7
I would encourage anyone to have a look at this report and remember that it comes from a leading country in respect of disability rights legislation.
Apologies for any cross posting.
Best wishes,
Frank
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International Online Training on Portage Early intervention and inclusion in CBR (Back to Top)
From: Indumathi Rao [log in to unmask]
International Online Training on Portage Early intervention and inclusion in CBR
Dates-15th March -25th March 2011
Portage guide to early childhood education is a comprehensive approach to facilitate holistic early childhood development. This was started in USA as a part of head start program. Portage strategy and accompanying material have been modified to reflect local concerns and are being used in about 145 countries. Portage is scientifically precise and facilitates the holistic development of all children.
CBR Network has modified the Portage pack to meet the socio-cultural needs of people in south Asia and translated it into various local languages.
How to include Portage Programme in CBR ?
Portage helps CBR workers to address the needs of young children in 0-6 years.It is a well known fact well structured and inclusive Early intervention programme is the back bone of a sound CBR programme.CBR evaluation studies in south Asia shows that early intervention support is not as strong as other rehab services which is seen with abysmally low number of children with disabilities in 0-6 years age group. The Portage Programme is an international early intervention programme for children from 0- 6 years. The Portage Pack has been adapted to the south Asian situation and implemented in all countries in south Asia.
In Portage the following knowledge,skills and tools are provided.
* Screening tools to identify 'gaps' in development, learning difficulties or disabilities at an early stage.
* Assessment tools to assess the current levels of learning of every child.
* Tools to make individual and group educational plans in order to stimulate each child at its own capability.
* Teacher and child cards to enable all children to learn new skills.
* Report and monitoring systems to evaluate a child's progress.
Portage can be applied in rural as well as urban areas. Within Portage communication with literate as well as illiterate parents is possible. Portage uses low- cost materials. Portage builds strong community support, encourages self- help groups and facilitates inclusion children with disabilities into existing head start programmes.
Study shows the quality of early intervention in CBR improves with Portage.Portage should flow like a river and spread.
Eligibility:
* No formal educational qualification is required.
* Any one interested in the disability sector
* Completed 18 years of age at the time of application
If you wish to join fill the form and send it to us .
Application form
1. Name
2. Address
3. A brief description about you
4. Skype ID
Regards
Dr Indumathi Rao
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Newsletter : Our Rights - Issue No 29 - Jan 2011 (Back to Top)
From: Frank Mulcahy [log in to unmask]
Dear friends,
Happy New Year!
Please find here below the link to our DAA newsletter, Our Rights issue 29, 2011
http://www.daa.org.uk/?page=newsletter
You can download the text version or the PDF version.
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Thank you.
Best Wishes
DAA team
http://www.daa.org.uk/
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Release of InterAction's 2011 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book (Back to Top)
From: Joan Durocher [log in to unmask]
FYI - includes a chapter a disability!
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2011 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book
Dear Colleagues,
InterAction is pleased to announce the release of our second biennial Foreign Assistance Briefing Book (FABB). It covers 16 critical topics, from climate change to agricultural development and health, as well as countries deemed important to U.S. national interests, including Afghanistan. The 2011 FABB presents the unified voice of the U.S. NGO community on foreign policy issues expected to draw attention in the 112th Congress. Browse the comprehensive FABB online by visiting our FABB webpage ( http://www.interaction.org/fabb ).
Our alliance of member organizations worked together to develop succinct yet informative policy papers, compiled by the best thinkers in our community, drawing from expertise and lessons learned from working in the developing world. All of the policy papers include recommendations for U.S. policymakers that we believe will help to shape a more just and stable world while also improving the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance.
We hope that our efforts will be useful in your endeavors.
Best,
Samuel A. Worthington
President & CEO
InterAction
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Disability Voice 8 | May the entry into force be with you! (Back to Top)
From: Aurelien Daydé [log in to unmask]
The EDF monthly newsletter | issue 8 | January 2011
Editorial /// May the entry into force be with you!
With the launch of the European disability strategy and the conclusion of the UN Convention, the last months of 2010 were intense for the disability movement. It marks a major milestone not just for disability activists but also for every supporter of human rights, as it is the first time the EU has concluded such a treaty. As the Convention entered into force on 22 January, Disability Voice provides everything you need to know about this landmark victory for the disability movement.
Hungary takes over the presidency of the Council of the EU for the next 6 months and will challenge the EU agenda with a disability conference next spring. Earlier in January, EDF generated debate in the media about the uses of the EU budget. An interesting paper highlighting the link between EU money and deinstitutionalisation was published in a European weekly newspaper. Disability Voice includes the article in this issue and asked EDF Executive Member Erik Olsen his views about structural funds and how they can be used in more beneficial ways.
It is important to know that last Monday, the Disability Intergroup hosted a New Year's event at the European Parliament. It was a great opportunity for EDF to emphasise the strong commitment of the Commission on the disability strategy for the next decade and about the next steps on the UN Convention. Hungarian MEP Adam Kósa, opened the exhibition Arts Employment and Human Rights together with Miklós Soltész, Hungarian Minister of State responsible for the social family and Donata Vivanti, EDF Vice President.
On a personal note, I am delighted to have the opportunity to take over as acting director for the next year. I hope to hold firm to the projects that EDF has committed to and to overcome all the challenges that are presented to the European disability movement.
Javier Güemes, European Disability Forum Acting Director
Click on the following link to download the whole newsletter!
http://cms.horus.be/files/99909/Newsletter/DisabilityVoice8January2011EN.doc
Cliquez ici pour télécharger la version word en français!
http://cms.horus.be/files/99909/Newsletter/DisabilityVoice8January2011FR.doc
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E-Access Bulletin, January 2011 (Back to Top)
From: Frank Mulcahy [log in to unmask]
E-ACCESS BULLETIN
Access To Technology For All, Regardless Of Ability
ISSUE 133, January 2011
In this issue:
- Canadian Government Appeals Landmark Accessibility Ruling - Move 'Sad and disappointing', says blind consultant.
- 'Wayfinding' Systems Not Yet Cost-Effective, Report Finds - And implementation is politically based, says expert
- European Accessibility Act To Be Unveiled in 2012 - ICT barriers to feature in research supporting new law
- The future of accessibility. New Year, New Dreams
To read the E-Access Bulletin, click on the following link!
http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?m=201101
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Human Rights factsheets - Rights and freedoms in practice: teaching resources (Back to Top)
From: Frank Mulcahy [log in to unmask]
These worksheets are a dynamic resource to help teachers foster an awareness of human rights among their pupils. The "theory" section describes, in simplified terms, the Convention and the way the European Court of Human Rights operates. It also explains what the Council of Europe does.
Nine activity sheets, each one focusing on a particular article of the Convention, are designed to get pupils thinking about the rights that must be guaranteed in a democratic society.
The "practical" section suggests various human-rights-related analysis, research and discussion exercises and activities. The various simplified "case studies" are designed to enable pupils to become familiar with legal issues and to understand how the Court operates. The teaching resources contained in this pack will enable young people, helped by their teachers, to be in a better position to acquire practical knowledge of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe.
Format : A4, 32 pages
Feel free to download the factsheets in English (PDF), in French or in German.
To request permission to reproduce the factsheets free of charge in a newsletter, blog, website or any other media, please send an email to [log in to unmask]
European Convention on Human Rights News on Facebook
Council of Europe Publishing
Palais de l'Europe, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Visit our site : http://book.coe.int
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Learn more about the issue of inclusive education for children with disabilities with our short videos (Back to Top)
From: Dorothy Boggs [log in to unmask]
Handicap International has just released the first part of a new series of short films, 'Six questions on inclusive education'.
The films present the opinions of Handicap International staff and local partners working on the inclusion of children with disabilities in education in Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Each of the six films considers one question on inclusive education:
- What challenges are faced by children with disabilities in each country
- What obstacles these children face in accessing education
- How Handicap International and its education partners work to overcome these challenges
- How to measure the impact of inclusive education projects
- What a quality education means
- What their vision is for the future in terms of education for children with disabilities.
Here are a few snapshots from the interviews:
"We did a study at the beginning of our project that showed that nearly 50% of parents of non-disabled children are not prepared for their children to be in the same class as children with disabilities. That's the first problem."
"For me a quality education is an education which responds to the needs of the community."
"I dream of seeing parents who understand more about and accept the abilities of their disabled child rather than the inabilities of their child and, knowing their abilities, commit to sending them to school."
One new part in the series will be released every week for the next six weeks on our website [direct link: http://www.handicap-international.org.uk/what_we_do/inclusion/inclusive_education/six_questions/ ]. We hope you will find these videos informative - do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you would like to know more about our work on inclusive education. Please contact Beatrice Cami ([log in to unmask]) for more information.
Many thanks, Dorothy
Dorothy Boggs
Disability Information Officer
We have moved to: Handicap International UK, 27 Broadwall, London, SE1 9PL
Tel: +44 (0) 870 774 3737 | via Text Relay: 18001 0870 774 3737
www.handicap-international.org.uk
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Assistive technology, human rights and poverty (Back to Top)
From: Ditte Mårtensson [log in to unmask]
A PhD thesis on assistive technology, human rights and poverty in developing countries has now been made available electronically by Lund University, Sweden, at http://www.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=12588&postid=1763855
Titled 'Assistive technology, human rights and poverty in developing countries. Perspectives based on a study in Bangladesh' and written by Johan Borg, the thesis aims at expanding the understanding of the relation of assistive technology use to human rights and capability poverty in these countries from model, rights and user perspectives. The findings offer support for addressing human rights deprivation and poverty among people with disabilities through provision of assistive technology on theoretical, legal and empirical grounds.
Kind regards,
Ditte Martensson
Ditte Martensson
Lund University
Social Medicine & Global Health
Dept of Clinical Sciences
CRC Entrance 72
SE-205 02 Malmo
Tel: +46 40 391336
Fax: +46 40 391339
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India: NBFCs should not discriminate against people with disabilities (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
27 January 2011
Reserved Bank of India (notification to all NBFCs - Non-Banking Financing Companies)
It has been brought to our notice that a NBFC has discriminated against physically / visually challenged persons in the matter of offering loans.
NBFCs are therefore advised that there shall be no discrimination in extending products and facilities including loan facilities to the physically / visually challenged applicants on grounds of disability. NBFCs may also advise their branches to render all possible assistance to such persons for availing of the various business facilities.
Full text on: http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=5909&Mode=0
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U.S., Russia partner to eradicate polio around the world (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
27 January 2011
USAID
The following information was released by the Department of Health and Human Services:
On January 27th, the U.S. government and the government of the Russian Federation, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation (MOHSD), signed a Protocol of Intent on Cooperation for the Global Eradication of Polio.
Full text on: http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2011/pr110127.html
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Thailand: Technology aids the disabled (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
TMCnet.com (U.S.)
Last Updated: 20:32, 26 January 2011
The country has opened its first demonstration centre for communication technology devices aimed particularly at the elderly and disabled.
Full text on: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/01/26/5269863.htm#
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Nigeria: The Employees Compensation Act 2010 includes disability compensation (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
All Africa
Last Updated: 8:49, 27 January 2011
With President Goodluck Jonathan's signature on the Employees Compensation Act 2010, it can be safely said that the country has taken a significant step towards achieving a better life for its workers. However, diligent, comprehensive implementation of its provisions is required to ensure that the expectations it has raised are not dashed.
This Act which repeals the Workmen's Compensation Act of 2004 is potentially redemptive and capable of boosting the morale and productivity of workers in both the public and private sectors. As Special Adviser to the President on Public Communication, Mr. Ima Niboro, put it, the new law was designed to deliver a platform for "guaranteed and adequate compensation for all employees or their dependants for any death, injury, disease or disability arising out of or in the course of employment."
Full text on: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101271037.html
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Nigeria to Develop Entrepreneurship Programmes for the Disabled (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
All Africa, 7:34
27 January 2011
The Federal Government yesterday said it will liaise with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) to develop entrepreneurship programmes for ...
Full text on: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101270544.html
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Project to Help Students With Disabilities Launched in Kigali, Rwanda (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
All Africa, 4:35
20 January 2011
The first phase of a six month project dubbed 'Fasha Gatagara', was yesterday launched at Mulindi Japan One Love Project in Kigali.
Full text on: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101200306.html
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Social Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: Cabs for the Disabled (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
The City Fix
Last Updated: 9:29
25 January 2011
A new venture in Hong Kong brings together social enterprise and transit access for the elderly and disabled. Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk) is a startup that seeks to invest capital and provide capacity building ...
Full text on: http://thecityfix.com/social-entrepreneurship-in-hong-kongcabs-for-the-disabled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thecityfix%2Fposts+%28TheCityFix%29
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China: Meeting the health challenge (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
China National News
Last Updated: 14:15
9 January 2011
India has a staggering burden of chronic disease arising from a variety of causes, but there is encouraging evidence to show that it can reduce both death and disability through effective low-cost measures.
Full text: http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/42135494/
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Bolivia: People with Disabilities Demanding Rights and Payment (Back to Top)
From: Maria Reina [log in to unmask]
IndyBlog
January 27, 2011
On Monday, shots rang out in the air. Chants followed. The intersection of Heroinas and Ayacuchu, Cochabamba's central thoroughfare, was completely shut down by a circle of people-many in wheelchairs, with walkers or crutches-demanding rights for people with disabilities. Their central demand was for a bono, or a monetary form of social security, paid as a monthly stipend.
Full Text on: http://www.indypendent.org/2011/01/27/bolivia-people-with-disabilities-demanding-rights-and-payment
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BBC Ouch! disability newsletter (Back to Top)
From: Frank Mulcahy [log in to unmask]
DB PLAYS THE RETRO-DIAGNOSIS GAME
On hearing that long-dead composer Chopin has been retrofitted with a new disability, DB takes a look at other disableds who have suffered the same speculative fate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/b1tch/db_plays_the_retro_diagnosis_game.shtml
GYM'LL FIX IT
Find out what happened when Liz Carr decided to get some exercise?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/features/liz_hits_the_gym.shtml
OUCH! TALK SHOW#63: brown footers, blind shooters and live music
There's live music by singer Mike Oliver and, are you a brown footer? Listen to the latest talk show to find out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/01/latest_podcast_brown_footers_a.html
AUDIO: keeping fit
Two disabled instructors explain why exercise could benefit everyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/interviews/audio_get_fit_for_2011.shtml
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