Welcome to the 14th Edition of the Australian Disability and Development Consortium’s (ADDC) Newsletter. This issue provides updates on the following:

1.       Haiti’s death of rehabs and therapists set off alarm bells

2. The Australian Government’s humans rights grants scheme for 2010-11

3. UN and sports federations team up to score for development

4. News from the Pacific

5. Making it Work

6. Experts’ meeting on indicators for an inclusive monitoring of poverty reduction and development programs in Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique, March 4 2010.

Newsletter 14th Edition-May 2010

ADDC 14th Edition Newsletter

This issue provides updates on the following:

1.       UN Sets up Human Rights Group to look into situation of Haiti’s Disabled

2.       Fondation J’Aime Haiti: News from the Field 

3.       In Haiti, Mental Health System is in Collapse  

4.       UNESCO Global Monitoring Report says Inclusive Education Key to Education for All

5.       Melbourne, Australia to host 63rd United Nations DPI/NGO Conference

6.       Call for Papers: Disability in the Global South

7.       USAID, Global Pulse 2010: a 3-day online discussion

8.       Resources

Newsletter March 2010 13th Edition

This issue provides updates on the following:

1.    Emergency Situation In Haiti
2.    AusAID in Haiti
3.    Reports from Foundation J’Aime Haiti
4.    Long Term Aftershocks of Care
5.    Asia Pacific Leadership Program
6.    Solomon Islands Earthquakes
7.    Asia Pacific Leadership Program
8.    Conclusion of the 19th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights
9.    Update on the Convention
10.    WHO Seeking Information on Sterilization of People with Disabilities
11.    DPI-AP “Promotion of the Access to Reproductive Rights of Disabled Women”—Photo Exhibition
12.    MIUSA’s WILD Program
13.    Disability Rights Fund
14.    New Resources

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This issue provides updates on the following:

Updates

1. Kazuo Itoga Memorial Prize
2. Victorian Government Inquiry into Disability and Mental Health Accommodation
3. Australian Shadow Report Project: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – NGO Shadow Report

Conferences & Events

1. Asia Pacific Leadership Program
2. Supporting Deaf People
3. 13th ISPO World Congress and ORTHOPAEDIE + REHA-TECHNIK 2010
4. Global Ph.D/Post-Doctoral and Post Graduate Researchers  Colloquium on Disability Law and Policy
5. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC):  e-discussion on Women and Poverty, 11 Jan to 12 Feb 2010 and Regional Meeting in Senegal
6. Gender Training Workshops
7. The Brisbane Institute
8. Legal Capacity Conference
9. Development Gateway Discussion Forum Ask the Climate Change Specialist – Professor Stephen Howes

Employment & Funding Opportunities

1. International Fellowships Program (IFP), West Africa.

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This issue provides updates on the following:

1. Social Inclusion Leaders and Advocates Meet with Thérèse Rein.
2. Thérèse Rein – Passionate Advocate for People with Disabilities
3. International Day of People with Disability
4. Regional Disability Strategy and Meeting Communiqué.
5. Revised Draft GA Resolution Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities.
6. NBF Partners with Santa to Promote Braille Letters this Christmas.
7. Christmas Gifts that Demonstrate the True Meaning of Christmas.
8. Belgian Man Rescued from a 23 year ‘Coma’.
9. Social Inclusion Week Spotlights the Needs to Think Inclusively
10. Home Furnishings Giant IKEA Raises Money for UNICEF
11. Disability and Displacement
12. Innovation in Accessible Transport for All
13. New Resources

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ADDC August 2009 Newsletter

Headlines include;

Children with Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus in Africa

An extended review on  “Children with Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus in Africa: can medical, family and community resources improve the life chances?”

Beyond Basic Needs

Programming for Marginalised and Vulnerable Groups-The Australian Partnership with African Communities (APAC) Program.

Disability & Deafness in North East Africa

An open, full text resource recently went online titled   “Disability & Deafness in North East Africa: Egypt, Sudan, Djibouti,  Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia. Introduction and bibliography, mainly non-medical, with historical material and some annotation.”

KAIH Report

The Kenya Association for the Intellectually Handicapped (KAIH), has put together a report on the post elections violence and the impact on the Persons with Intellectual disabilities and their families.

Asian And Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 2003-2012

UNESCAP has organized a series of activities on the elaboration of a comprehensive and integral international convention on the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities as well as workshops and meetings on policy measures, information networking and promoting awareness.

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