Med Lagen som Verktyg

As I am not an anthropologist, sociologist or historian, I make no claim to understanding culture from any of those perspectives. As a psychologist, however, I have become interested in the impact of culture on the emotional well-being of individuals. Moreover, my interest is deepened by my own minority group membership (Disabled people).

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Address by Mr. Padraig Flynn
Member of the European Commission responsible for
Employment and Social Affairs
Dublin, 17 April 1998

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am delighted to be with you today.

This conference takes place as European social policy passes into a new and challenging phase. It is one of modernisation, of the systematic pursuit of an agenda for change in how European labour markets operate.

The mark of the extent of this change is the commitment by Member State governments to put in place a co-ordinated strategy based on agreed, quantified, comparable targets for creating employment and preventing unemployment, above all long-term unemployment.

Föredragahållare

Adolf Ratzka, ordförande STIL, Independent Living och dagens socialpolitik

Bo Rothstein, professor, Den offentliga sektorn och individens självbestämmande

Adolf Ratzka, ordförande STIL, Vad kommer LSS innebära för STIL och andra initiativ?

Socialminister Bengt Westerberg, Den nya handikappreformen för ett jämlikt och värdigt liv

José Ferraz, universitetslektor i nationalekonomi, förvaltningshögskola Göteborg,
Svårigheterna vid prissättningen av kommunala tjänster

Björn Jidéus, verksamhetsledare STIL, m fl., STIL som komplement till de kommunala tjänsterna

The fishing is free with your disability
You don't need a licence like the rest.
Movies are half the price, well isn't that nice?
And the parking spots are nothing but the best.

Well, don't you wish that you were disabled?
Disabled is the better way to be.
With crutches, canes and braces, wheelchairs to run races
Don't you wish that you were just like me?

The deaf have got sign language,
the blind have got their dogs
Their loyal trusted guides are at their sides.
Well everyone has their vices, but we've got our devices
Oh, don't you envy us our privileged lives?

Direct Payments Campaign in the U.K.

Presentation for the ENIL Seminar in Stockholm, June 9-11, 1996

European Disability Forum
Forum Européen des Personnes Handicapées
Square Ambiorix 32 Box 2/A
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: 32- 2- 282 4600
Fax: 32- 2-282.46.09
E-mail: info@edf.arc.be
Site: http://www.edf.unicall.be

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Please note that this document is still a draft version, and may contain type and layout errors. A final version will be available in English, French, German and Spanish shortly.

© Copyright European Disability Forum. Readers are encouraged to copy and disseminate this document widely provided that appropriate reference is made to the source.

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Commission Staff Working Paper

Brussels, 22.09.1998
SEC(1998) 1550

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In light of the European Employment Strategy, and drawing on the analysis of some key elements of the 1998 Member States' National Action Plans, this paper seeks to establish a set of fundamental policy issues concerning employment and disability. The aim is twofold:

SKINFAXE - Institutet för Omsorg Utveckling Kvalitet, Uppsala

Berättelser från Kaptensgatan på Råå
Patricia Ericsson och Kent Ericsson

Förord

Strax före årsskiftet 93-94 fick vi en förfrågan om att göra en uppföljning av erfarenheterna från ett projekt där fyra män med begåvningshandikapp köpt sin egen bostad och där deras stöd förmedlas av personliga assistenter. Bostaden finns på Kaptensgatan på Råå, vilket är anledningen till rapportens underrubrik.

Published in: Enns, Henry. 1998. Conflict Situations and Disabled Persons

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"In spite of the often difficult situations, disabled people are not giving up the struggle for freedom."
Henry Enns, Executive Director, Disabled Peoples' International

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Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations, New York, 1995

Peter A. Dunn, PhD, 1997
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5.

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Budapest 1991

Peter A. Dunn, Ph.D., Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

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Publicerad i: Enns, Henry. 1998. Konflikter och personer med funktionsnedsättning.

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Innehålld

Redigering Diane Driedger
International Development Officer
Coalition of Provincial Organisations of the Handicapped (COPOH)
Winnipeg, Canada 1991

Texten är återgiven med tillstånd från COPOH.

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Published in: Driedger, Diane (ed.). 1991. Disabled People in International Development.

Introduction by: Karen Stone

This lengthy, albeit important -- and timely because so many of us are facing the beginning of a new school year -- endnote comes from the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. It is about accessibility in college/university computer labs. Note that I have taken the liberty to embellish some of their statements. Meanwhile, I encourage each and every one of you to make copies of this and distribute it to all concerned individuals. The UW begins by aptly saying:

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Detta är handboken du alltid har velat rådfråga. Titta på innehållet för att reta din aptit:

• Penninginsamling
• Att arrangera ett evenemang
• Att skriva ett uppslag
• Att prata med långivare och donatorer
• Media/PR
• Pressmeddelande
• Brev till redaktören
• Att lyckas med att få TV att komma till ditt evenemang
• Att lyckas få en intervju i media
• Att värva röster hos politiker
• Samhällsorganisation
• Att starta en liten grupp
• Att skapa koalitioner
• Att undervisa samhället och mycket mer

Media PR

Disabled Women

Download the "Disabled Women Kit" as a PDF file (120 KB)

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Organisation Building

Consultation and Influence

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1. Kampanjens syfte

DAA, Disability Awareness in Action (Kampanjen för medvetenhet om funktionshinder), är en internationell upplysningskampanj riktad mot allmänheten för att främja, stödja och samordna nationella kampanjer för målen i FN:s två program United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons (De funktionshindrades årtionde, 1983-1992) och WPA, World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons (Globala aktionsprogrammet för funktionshindrade).

by Patricia Digh, 1999

Imagine how shocking it would be to pick up a newspaper today and read a front-page story about a "colored" or "Negro" politician or businessman. Yet, the print and broadcast media still describe people with disabilities with equally archaic and demeaning phrases such as "handicapped," "differently abled," "challenged" and "special."

Furthermore, while journalists do not include a person's ethnic or racial minority group status in articles unless it is a crime report or pertinent to the story, a disability inevitably gets mentioned regardless of the story's topic.

Here are some guidelines for writing about people with disabilities.