Welcome to the August 2011 Edition of the Australian Disability and Development Consortium’s (ADDC) Newsletter. The intent of the Newsletter is to update Members on ADDC activities and is only published 2 to 3 times a year, whereas the ADDC Bulletin is information from around the world relating to disability in development and distributed at least twice a month.
This edition will provide updates on ADDC activity throughout 2011 in relation to our main objectives, as well as providing information about activities our Members have been involved in.
The Australian launch of the World Report on Disability was held as a luncheon in Parliament House in Canberra on June 21st 2011.
ADDC and ACFID were privileged to have a group of prominent speakers at the event to share their insight on disability inclusive development.
Speakers included (in order of appearance):
Professor Ron McCallum AO - Chair of UN Committee on CRPD; Senior Australian of the Year
Antoni Tsaputra- Australian Development Scholar recipient
Hon. Kevin Rudd- Minister for Foreign Affairs
Hon. Julie Bishop- Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Senator Jan McLucas- Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers
Professor Mary Crock- Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research) & wife of Professor McCallum
Organisations are responding to the release of the much awaited World Disability Report in different ways.
Follow this link to see how:Responses to World Report on Disability Globally
ADDC welcomes the release of the World Report on Disability on June 9th 2011at the UN Headquarters in New York.
This much awaited report includes the first update of the WHO’s disability prevalence estimates in more than 30 years.
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.
Monday, August 22, 2011
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