ADDC Bulletin April 2018

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April 2018 CONTENTS

ADDC NEWS

ADDC NEWS

• Federal Budget
• Parliamentary Enquiry into aid program
• ADDC Strategic Planning

LATEST SECTOR NEWS

• Julia Gillard on Why children with disabilities deserve better
• Dr Julian Eaton on the Status of people with psychosocial disabilities in developing countries
• In India, struggles to address mental health
• ISO Establishes New Task Force on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• First Indian Sign Language Dictionary of 3000 Words Launched

NEW RESOURCES

• Submission Paper by the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities to HLPF 2018
• Disability Inclusive Employment for INGOs: New Case study and toolkit
• Digital Accessibility Toolkit developed by CBM International
• ‘Our Way Planning Resource’ from First People’s Disability Network
• Education and Disability: UNESCO UIS in-depth analysis of data
• International Disability Alliance – new webinar series
• IDA Report on the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
• Women Enabled’s accountABILITY Toolkit
• WEI’s International Global Map is changing the way we connect and grow across the world!
• Report into access for justice for women with disabilities who have experienced sexual violence in India
• Healing colonial binaries: a ‘needs – based’ approach to Aboriginal persons found unfit to stand trial on the basis of FASD

 OPPORTUNITIES FOR INPUT

• Online Consultation on the CRPD Implementation and Monitoring
• IDA Thematic Group on Disaster Risk Reduction Invites Experts and Organizations to JOIN!
• Consultation on Human Rights and mental health: “Identifying strategies to promote human rights in mental health”

JOB and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• Advocacy and Communications Officer, CBM Australia
• Global Advocacy Adviser, Fred Hollows Foundation, Melbourne
• Program Support Officer (Disability), AVI, Vanuatu
• Occupational Therapist Trainer, AVI, Tonga
• Inclusive Education Teacher Trainers (3 positions available), AVI, Samoa
• USAID’s Disability Funding Program for 2018

CONFERENCES and EVENTS

• RDI Network Ethical Practice Workshops: Sydney & Melbourne
• Australian Network on Disability National Conference, Sydney, Australia, 15 May 2018
• 2nd International Conference, Disability & DRM, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 15-17 2018
• 2018 Helen Keller World Conference, Benidorm, Spain, 19 – 27 June 2018
• International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference 2018, Gold Coast, Australia, 21 – 26 July 2018
• ‘Leadership in Mental Health’ course, Goa, India, 3 – 14 December 2018
• XVIII World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, Paris, France, 23 – 27 July 2019

NEWSLETTERS from OTHER ORGANISATIONS 

• First Peoples Disability Network Quarterly Newsletter April 2018
• UN Enable Newsletter: February – March 2018
• DRD Vietnam Newsletter – February & March 2018

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