Feb 2008
Action and Advocacy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING DISABILITY AS A HUMAN RIGHT
PART 2: THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
PART 3: ADVOCACY! TAKING ACTION FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/TB6/index.html
Disabled deprived of government aid
NDTV Thursday, February 21, 2008 (New Delhi)
The disabled in India comprise only 1.5 percent of the total beneficiaries of various poverty alleviation and welfare schemes, government figures reveal.
Statistics tell the tale of neglect, of how the benefits of many government schemes don't percolate to the people with disabilities.
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Aamir Khan loses case over custody of brother
Saturday, 16 February , 2008, 17:55
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan today lost the legal battle for custody of his mentally ill brother Faisal Khan as a local court held that Faisal need not be in anybody's custody and can live anywhere he wants.
Click the following link for the complete article
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14605845
Source: Express India
It’s difficult to concentrate on anything in this noisy cyber café in Hauz Khas. But a group of five visually impaired girls is hard at work. Even the noise fails to drown their enthusiasm as they sit typing on the keyboard.
The keyboard is not Braille enabled but the software is a special one.
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Delhi To Host Two-day Film Festival On Disability
NEWSPost India - New Delhi,Delhi,India
Satish Kapoor, the festival director, said the event aims at
spreading awareness about disability and sensitise the society
through the medium of films.
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Disability prejudice by Chennai residents
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Although there are many countries that have recognised
disability as a social issue, and not a medical one, in India,
disability is still seen as a stigma.
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Pricewaterhouse Coopers promotes disability equality in the workplace
Source: Cripps Sears and Partners
The accountancy industry needs to tackle disability equality,
after making strides in gender and ethnic equality, according to
an expert from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The accountancy industry needs to tackle disability equality,
after making strides in gender and ethnic equality, according to
an expert from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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National Council on Disability Bulletin, January 2008
NCD Bulletin (Electronic Edition)
A Monthly Publication of the National Council on Disability (NCD)
John R. Vaughn, Chairperson January 2008
NCD Celebrating 30 Years of Empowerment: 1978-2008
The Bulletin, which is free of charge and at NCDs
http://www.ncd.gov , brings you
the latest issues and news affecting people with disabilities.
To subscribe to the NCD listserv, go to
http://listserv.access.gpo.gov , click on Online mailing
list archives, select NCD-NEWS-L, click on Join or leave the
list, then complete the short subscription form. Please send
your editorial comments to Bulletin editor Mark S. Quigley
(mquigley@ncd.gov)
Source: Bangalore Mirror, 5 Feb 2008
A quadriplegic as a result of an accident, swimming is the best possible form of therapy and recreation for young techie Robert George. But his housing society obsessed with security, demands that he sign a bond absolving them of any responsibility if he wants to use the pool.
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COMBAT LAW - The Human Rights Magazine
The recent issue of COMBAT LAW, Volume 7 Issue 1 The Human
Rights Magazine January-February 2008 is focused on Disability.
Click on the following link for the magazine
http://www.combatlaw.org/v7i1.php
Click on the following link to read the article of submitted by CBR Forum http://www.combatlaw.org/information.php?article_id=1057&issue_id=38
Access voting process for disabled
Nagaland Post, India
Secretaries of States and Union Territories to set up wooden ramps and other facilities for easy access of disabled voters in selected polling booths. ...
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http://www.nagalandpost.com/Opiniondesc.asp?sectionid=55603
This man braved dyslexia to become an entrepreneur
Mon, Feb 11 03:05 AM
Chennai: Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par took all of us back to our school days. But for Siddarth Chandrashekar from Chennai, watching little Ishaan on screen was like watching his own life's story. The story of a man who braved dyslexia to become an entrepreneur.
‘I am ashamed to use proprietary software’
Source: The Hindu
Deepa Kurup
BANGALORE: Krishnakant Mane says that the freedom and flexibility provided by open source software enables him to work with a variety of interfaces and is integral to his work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
This 27-year-old is visually disabled. He works as a research fellow at TIFR and is adviser to several State Governments. He has been consultant to several companies where he has tried to bring about awareness about the problem faced by people with disabilities using propriety software because it cannot be improvised to suit their needs.
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http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/13/stories/2008021359871100.htm
Hearing impairment no hurdle for Zeeshan
Islamabad
Hearing impairment is not a hurdle in the life of 22-year-old
bespectacled Zeeshan Afzal. This creative and confident boy from
Karachi is a superb tailor, makes impressive gift bags but likes
to design steel bangles for girls the most.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=93276
MIUSA's 4th International Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD)
From August 12 - September 2, 2008 at Eugene, Oregon, USA
MIUSA will bring together 25 women leaders with disabilities from around the world to strengthen leadership skills, create new visions and build international networks of support to explore new leadership opportunities for women and girls with disabilities
APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008
http://www.miusa.org/exchange/WILD2008/index_html
Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Beethoven with Learning Disability
Posted by fookembug on February 9, 2008
If anyone says that you are not smart as other because you
have learning disability, don’t worry. Alexander Graham Bell,
Thomas Edison, and Beetoven were the ones of famous people with
learning disability.
http://fookembug.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/alexander-graham-bell-thomas-edison-beethoven-with-learning-disability/
Why did Hearing People Take Over?
Posted by
fookembug on January 29, 2008
Hello, I want to share the story as I feel a little disappointed about hearing people. Why? For example, I am an actor. I read the script and the story has a deaf character. I am thrilled and auditioning for that part. The audition downsizes and they already pick hearing actor who will play a lead role as deaf. Why?
http://fookembug.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/why-did-hearing-people-take-over/
UN Newsletter on Disability Issues
Source: DPI e-update Feb 08
The ENABLE Newsletter is a free service of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. It keeps readers informed on the work of the UN on disability issues.
Please go to http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=313
Origin of negative words associated with disability
Afflicted, Afflicted, Cripple, Dumb or Dumbo, Dwarf,
Feeble-minded, Handicapped,
Idiot, Imbecile, Invalid, Mentally handicapped, Mong/Mongolian,
Retard, Spazz, spazzie or spastic, The blind; The deaf; The
disabled, Victim or sufferer, Wheelchair-bound
http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/disability/further/negative.html
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Disability etiquette” guidelines dealing specifically with how
to approach people with disabilities were initially created to
challenge social conventions rather than to reinforce them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_etiquette
Source: DPI e-update Feb 08
UNICEF has just released a new report on poverty titled The State of the World’s Children. The report's analysis reveals that far more needs to be done to increase access to treatment and prevention to address the devastating impact of pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, severe acute malnutrition and HIV.
Full report available at http://www.unicef.org/sowc08/docs/sowc08.pdf
New Booklet on Down Syndrome for Families
Source: DPI e-update Feb 08
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities has created a free booklet for young people with Down's Syndrome and their families.
What Kind of Future can be downloaded at
http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/publications/?EntryId=29215