Independent Living Institute

FÖRORD

by
Prof. György Könczei, Ph. D., D.Sc.
Budapest University of Economics (European Studies Center)
Hungary

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Swedish disabled high school student Yasmin Jungestedt won an essay competition and a trip to Japan to take part in the 10th annual camp for high school students organized by the Japanese Independent Living Movement. Read her prize-winning essay, "How I, as elected Prime Minister, would change disability policy," and her account (link to anchor which sets browser at start of document)  about the time she spent in Japan meeting other high school students with disabilities from Japan and around the world.

Below is information spread by the organizers at Mainstream before the 2002 event. 

An International Summit Conference on

Independent Living

PERSPECTIVAS GLOBALES SOBRE VIDA INDEPENDIENTE PARA EL PROXIMO MILENIO.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

21-25 de setiembre de 1999

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by Andrew J. Imparato, June 28, 1999

General Counsel and Director of Policy
National Council on Disability

As an attorney who has spent my career working to promote policies and laws that expand opportunities for the 54 million Americans with disabilities, I am deeply concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court totally missed the mark last week in three cases construing the definition of “disability” in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Supreme Court has left me and millions of other Americans with significant mental or physical impairments unprotected against egregious discrimination.

Version española.

by Iglesias, M.; Gil, G.; Joneken, A.; Mickler, B.; Knudsen, J.S.,
METIS project, European Unión DAPHNE initiative, 1998

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

GENERAL ISSUES

Social integrering och Independent Living

Om att avskaffa socialpsykologiska hinder: Assistans i daglig livsföring
Temagrupp nummer 5, Rapport 1996

In English

Innehållsförteckning

På svenksa

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