ADDC Bulletin: August 2020 edition

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ADDC Bulletin: August 2020 edition

ADDC News

• Executive Committee support #EndCovidForAll campaign

IN THE NEWS

• Pacific Disability Forum Board election and annual meeting
• Pacific DPO Fund is under review
• Disability Rights Monitor Calls for End to Police Violence
• Coronavirus ‘starkly’ exposes vulnerability of persons with disabilities
• Virtual meeting of the 23rd session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

FEATURED RESOURCES

• Documents: Access to eyeglasses and prostheses in low and middle income countries
• Interview transcript: Moving Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis
• Opinion: How to ethically involve children with disabilities in research
• Report: Towards a Disability-Smart World: Global Disability Inclusion Strategy
• Webinar: The Principles of Ethical Disability-inclusive Development Research

COVID-19 RESOURCES

• CBM Australia and Water for Women (June 2020) Disability inclusion and COVID-19: Guidance for WASH delivery

Webinar recordings:

• Webinar: Left behind? Women with disabilities during COVID-19
• Webinar: Challenges in inclusive volunteering under COVID-19
• Webinar: Equity and Accessibility in Times of Pandemic: Building “Cities For All” Post-COVID19
• Webinar: When Rhetoric Meets Reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons with Disabilities, and COVID-19

YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED

• Call for abstracts: Hierarchies of Disability Human Rights, new edited volume
• Call for abstracts: Pacific Islands Health Research Symposium (25-27 November 2020)
• Call for contributions: UNESCO “Story for Development” project
• Call for nominations: UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize 2020-2021
• Survey: People with Disabilities and Disasters
• Survey: UN75 2020 and beyond
• Survey: Built environment professions
• Survey: Barriers to mobility technology

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF): Subtheme on “Digital Inclusion, Gender Equality and Diversity”

OPPORTUNITIES

• Vacancy: Consultant evaluating implementation of law on persons with disabilities
• Vacancy: Consultant on technical finalization of “Accessibility Toolkit”
• Special Grants Call: COVID-19
• Grants Call: Civil society advocacy and response to the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls
• Call for Proposals: Strengthen and support Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to design, implement and monitor programming on ending violence against women and girls

NEWSLETTERS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS

• Global Accessibility News, Issue 7, 28th July 2020
• Polio News, July 2020
• UN DESA Voice, August 2020
• WBU Bulletin, July 2020