RI Co-organized Side Event on Key Issues in the Rights of Older Persons: Disability Rights, Access to Palliative Care, and Lessons from the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) August 1, 2011 United Nations Headquarters NY: The Open-ended Working Group on Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights of Older Persons began sessions [...]
July 1, 2011 United Nations (UN) Headquarters NY: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) held a panel discussion on the relationship between disability, education and employment. Based on findings from recent studies in North America and Asia, the panelists highlighted the moral and social imperatives of including persons with disabilities in the [...]
New York, NY (United Nations): The High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report for 2010 which is available at the following link: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/ohchrreport2010/web_version/ohchr_report2010_web/index.html#/home The report discusses disability under Chapter 3 – Thematic Priorities, Discrimination section, and offers examples of good practices on the rights of persons with disabilities (PWD) from the Office [...]
On June 27, 2011 RI attended the Lunch Event on Sports, Disability and Development- Key to Empowering Persons with Disabilities and Their Communities at the United Nations. This event highlighted the important role of sport as a tool for empowerment and inclusion of persons with disabilities (PWDs). During the event the report on Harnessing the [...]
The conference explored how states and international organizations may address the inclusion of persons with disabilities in emergency responses in practice. Persons with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to disasters and crises, both on account of disability and poverty; yet they are often ignored or excluded at all levels of disaster preparedness, mitigation and intervention. More than [...]
Dear all: I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your continuing support and encouragement. In particular, I would like to thank the call for support initiated by Stephen King, RNIB, and the DAISY Consortium for dissemination of accessible survival information in DAISY format for persons with print disabilities and wider community at risk. [...]
All proceeds go directly to DPI-Japan for the Relief Headquarters for Persons with Disabilities of Tohoku-Kanto Great Earthquake. The Relief Headquarters is working to ensure that people with disabilities in Japan receive essential services they need—instead of being left behind by mainstream relief efforts. To give via credit card, you can visit http://www.j-payment.co.jp/lan/bokin/dpien.html?1 To give [...]
As for this great earthquake, enormous damages have been reported by the minute. Under the emergency circumstances, persons with disabilities are facing many challenges if they can evacuate from dangers and find accessible shelters with adequate supports to meet their basic needs. To provide necessary supports for persons with disabilities urgently and continuously, we establish [...]
Unlimited Challenge to the World, 8th International Abilympics Seoul 2011 Dear RI members, The best festival of the persons with disabilities in the world, International Abiliympics will be held at Seoul in September of 2011. Abilympics is the international skills contest for persons with disabilities and it was held first in 1981 to commemorate ‘”The [...]
Message from Hiroshi Kawamura in Tokyo, President of the DAISY Consortium “Thank you very much for your encouraging support for our combat against disasters in Japan. Our very difficult struggle against 4 monstrous nuclear reactors is still going on with potential “meltdown” risk which might trigger a global crisis. Good news is the reconstruction of [...]
