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ADDC Bulletin September 2019


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ADDC September 2019 Bulletin CONTENTS

ADDC NEWS

  • Calling for the renewal of Development for All
  • ADDC Executive Committee Election
  • ADDC Disability Focal Point Network
  • ADDC at the ACFID Conference

IN THE NEWS

  • Committee Experts express concerns about Australia’s slow progress in the implementation of the Convention
  • 2019 Global Report on Assistive Technology Consultation
  • Take five: “Nothing about disability should be done without women with disabilities”
  • Official webpage for International Week of the Deaf (IWDeaf) 2019! #IWDeaf2019
  • Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

NEW RESOURCES

  • Deaf People in Pacific Island Countries – A design for the Pacific Deaf Strengthening Program 2019
  • Building sustainable and effective assistive technology provision in partnership: lessons from the Pacific
  • CBM resources on environmental sustainability and climate change
  • CBM resources on disability inclusion
  • World Federation of the Deaf Position Paper on situating Deaf communities within ‘disability’ vs cultural and linguistic minority’ constructs
  • Humanity & Inclusion and Global Rehabilitation Alliance report: Rehabilitation for the realization of human rights and inclusive development

OPPORTUNITIES FOR INPUT

  • DSAA Inaugural Conference: Development Studies: Research, Debates & Trajectories: Call for Papers
  • Questionnaire on “Bioethics and Disabilities”: Call for submissions
  • International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)+25 Survey: Request for input and support

CONFERENCES, TRAINING & EVENTS

  • ACFID National Conference, 23rd – 24th October, Sydney
  • Sustainability and Disability Conference (SUDI) 2019, November 25-26, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • DSAA Inaugural Conference: Development Studies: Research, Debates & Trajectories, 5-7 February 2020 Deakin Downtown, Melbourne
  • Call for Papers: 2020 Australasian Aid Conference, 17-19 February 2020, Canberra
  • Call for Papers: The Future of Feminist Disability Studies, 5th-8th March 2020, Boston, Massachusetts, US
  • 3rd CBR/CBID World Congress, 28-30 July, 2020, Entebbe, Uganda

EMPLOYMENT and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

  • Disability Inclusion Technical Adviser, Australian Volunteers International

NEWSLETTERS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS

  • Newsletter from IDA Secretariat, August 2019
  • UN DESA Voice September 2019
  • Light for the World, Disability Inclusive Development newsletter Summer (Northern) 2019
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