INDIA

Acts and Policies

1. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2011
2. Persons with Disabilities Act 1995
3. National Trust Act 1999
4. Rehabilitation Council Act 1992 and Amendments 2000
5. Mental Health Act 1987
6. Inclusive Education of the Disabled at Secondary Stage (IEDSS) - Govt. of India

Barrier Free Environment

1. Guidelines and Space Standards for Barrier Free Built Environment for Disabled and Elderly Persons - CPWD
2. Training Manual to promote 'Barrier Free Environment' - RCI

Guidelines

1. Right to Information Act - Guide for Persons with Disabilities
2. Free Employment Manual by AccessAbility, New Delhi
3. Mental Health Care and Human Rights - National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi and National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore

Vocational Training

1. Modular Employable Skills (MES)
2. List of MES Course Curricula approved by NCVT

Placement support for Persons with Disabilities

1. Association of People with Disabilities
2. Ability Foundation - Employment, Cross Disability Magazine
3. Enable India
4. Honey Bees

Govt. Ministries and Departments

1. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment - Disabilities
2. Office of the Chief Commissioner Disabilities
3. Office of the National Trust
4. National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH, Secundrabad)
5. National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH, Ahmedabad)
6. National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH,Dehradun)
7. Dept. of Public Reforms and Public Grievances

Other Resources

1. World Report on Disability Jun 2011
2. World Bank Report "People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to Outcomes” Nov 2007
3. The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from HIV Programmes in India
4. Vocational Training - JSS Mysore
5. Deafblindness - Sense International India
6. AccessAbility - Universal Design, Employment, Discussion Forum
7. Access For All - Samarthyam
8. Design Manual for Barrier Free Built Environment - Handicap International and Unnati
9. "Mathematics Braille Software" - WIMATS
10. Report - Status of (Inclusive) Education in India - 2008
11. Handbill on Disability and Census 2011
12. Comments on the Draft Law by DAF, Kolkata - 25.01.11
13. Legal Capacity as understood in UNCRPD and New Law

INTERNATIONAL

CBR

1. Community Based Rehabilitation Guidelines 2010
2. Disabled Village Children
3. WHO - CBR
4. WHO/ILEP technical guide on community-based rehabilitation and leprosy
5. CBR and mental health, CBR and UN Convention on rights of persons with disabilities - Presentations during Pre-Congress workshop - Bangkok - Feb 09

UN Agencies

1. ILO Ability Asia Pacific
2. Skills Development through Community Based Rehabilitation - ILO

 

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

1. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
2. News Room - UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
3. UNCRPD - Ratification Toolkit
4. UNCRPD - Implementation Tookkit
5. UNCRPD - Child Friendly Version by UNICEF
6. UNCRPD - Translated into Kannada
7. Accessible Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
8. Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) "Guidelines on Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)"

 

Acts and Policies

1. Policy brief on Disability and HIV - UNAIDS, WHO, UNOHCHR
2. THE SALAMANCA STATEMENT AND FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION ON SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION

 

Guidelines/ Manuals

1. Disability rights advocacy workbook
2. Skills development through community based rehabilitation: A good practice guide - ILO
3. Advocacy Manual: Creating Successful Campaigns for Community Living
4. 'Integrating mental health into primary care - a global perspective' - WHO
5. A Manual for Integrating the Programmes and Services of HIV and Violence Against Women
6. CBM Policy on Child Protection

 

Human Rights

1. First Steps - a manual for starting Human Rights Education
2. Change Your Life With Human Rights - Harvard Project on Disability
3. Simple Guide to UN Treaty Bodies
4. Harvard Project on Disability to promote the human rights of people with disabilities worldwide
5. The United Nations Human Rights System: How to make it Work for You

On Line Library - From Hesperian Foundation

1. Where There Is No Doctor
2. Where Women Have No Doctor
3. A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
4. A Book for Midwives
5. HIV Health and Your Community
6. Helping Children Who Are Deaf
7. Helping Children Who Are Blind
8. Where There Is No Dentist
9. A Worker's Guide to Health and Safety
10. A community guide to environmental health
11. Women's Health Exchange
12. Global Health Watch

Organisations

1. Disability Awareness in Action
2. ABILIS Finland
3. Christoffel-Blindenmission
4. Disabled People International
5. Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (DCDD)
6. EENET - Enabling Education Network
7. Enablement
8. Handicap International
9. IDDC - International Disability and Development Consortium
10. Kindernothilfe
11. MISEREOR
12. Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland
     

E- Groups/ E-News Letters/ Blogs

1. Health Wrights Newsletter on Health and Disability by David Werner
2. World Bank: The Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD)
3. Disability World
4. Disabled Peoples' International
5. We Can Do
6. Walking is Over-rated

Articles

1. HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISABILITY: NEW AND DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE WITH THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON DISABILITY
2. Impact of the South Asian Earthquake on Disabled People in the State of Jammu and Kashmir

 

Others

1. Disability at a Glance: a Profile of 28 Countries and Areas in Asia and the Pacific - UNESCAP Publication
2. Resources on - Disability Inclusion and Development - Ask Source
3. Disability Archives Leeds UK
4. Translation of Text documents into Braille and Speech
5. Accommodating People With Disabilities In Disasters
6. News Room - UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities