The European Community has just ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Unprecedented step forward for the first human rights treaty ratified in the history of Europe and a great signal sent to all EU Members States. It is the first major Human Rights treaty of the 21st century and the fastest to have been ratified…
Friday, November 27, 2009
At least one in five of the world’s poorest people are disabled but there is as yet no widespread acceptance or push to ensure that 20% of the poorest recipients of aid programmes are disabled. Disabled people are so severely excluded from all areas of society…
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
“Much has been accomplished, but the world continues its struggle to create societies in which disabled persons enjoy the same opportunities as other members of the human family, and are viewed and treated as equal partners in the social, cultural, political and economic life of our communities.”
Kofi Annan, Beirut, Lebanon, 3 December 2001.
What is disability?
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Monday, December 1, 2008
An approach that acknowledges three distinct barriers: attitudinal, institutional, and environmental, which marginalise and exclude people with impairments, it is important to understand the difference between disability and impairment.
Friday, November 27, 2009
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