ADDC Bulletin: May 2020 edition

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ADDC Bulletin: May 2020 edition

ADDC News

• ACFID & ADDC webinar: Disability-inclusive Practice & Research: COVID-19 & Beyond

IN THE NEWS

• Joint Statement: Protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights and promoting gender-responsiveness in the COVID-19 crisis
• Covid and Cyclone Harold crisis highlight disability accessibility in the Pacific
• World Blind Union (WBU) Call to Action launched
• IDA and IDDC World Health Assembly (WHA) statement
• IDA and IDDC accessibility campaign launched
• New UN report calls for disability-inclusive recovery
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges States to take extra steps to include people with disabilities

COVID-19 RESOURCES

• UN Policy Brief: A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19
• UN/DESA Policy Brief: Leaving no one behind: the COVID-19 crisis through the disability and gender lens
• OHCHR guidance note: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• The impacts of COVID-19 on people with disabilities: a rapid review
• WEI report: COVID-19 at the Intersection of Gender and Disability
• Devex article: How to ensure a disability-inclusive response to COVID-19
• Webinar: Re-launching support services during the lifting of confinement rules
• An inclusive response to COVID-19: Education for children with disabilities
• Paper: Social protection measures for persons with disabilities and their families in response to COVID 19 crisis

RESOURCE HUBS ON COVID-19 AND DISABILITY

NEW RESOURCES

• Situation report: TC Harold & disability inclusion
• Online course: CRPD from a survivor-of-psychiatry perspective
• ILO paper: Key issues on promoting employment of persons with disabilities
• Webinar series: Innovation to Inclusion (I2I)
• Manual on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women with Disabilities in India
• Paper: How do economically active people with disabilities access microfinance?

OPPORTUNITIES FOR INPUT

• WBU Survey on COVID-19
• Survey: People with Disabilities and Disasters
• Survey: Down syndrome and COVID-19
• TCI Asia Pacific – Call for Members
• Call for Contributions: Mapping the Disability Experience in COVID-19

CONFERENCES, TRAINING & EVENTS

• Online event: ACFID & ADDC webinar
• Online event: Melbourne Development Circle: Leaving No-one Behind: Inclusion for People with Disability
• 3rd CBR/CBID World Congress
• Save the Date: International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disabilities Conference

EMPLOYMENT and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• UN Talent Programme for Professionals with Disabilities
• IDA-MU Doctoral Scholarship Opportunity

NEWSLETTERS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS

• East Wind 31, May 2020
• World Blind Union, E-Bulletin, April 2020
• Global Accessibility News, Issue 4
• Polio News, April 2020