UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Data, Tools and Research

May 25 and 26, 1999

US Department of Commerce

Washington DC

THE GROWING DIGITAL DIVIDE IN ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: 
OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

By

Presentation by Arthur Verney
Development Worker, Disabled Peoples' International - European Union Committee
at the ENIL Meeting in Stockholm, 10 June 1996

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

Contents

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

Technical aids and accessibility problems

Felix M. Uritsky, Club "Contacts", Moscow, Russia

Seminar Contents 

PDF, 135 KB

Pamphlet about the Act (HTML)

One Hundred First Congress of the United States of America

At the Second Session, Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety.

An Act: To establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

The General Assembly,

Mindful of the pledge made by Member States, under the Charter of the United Nations to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization to promote higher standards of living, full employment and conditions of economic and social progress and development,

Reaffirming its faith in human rights and fundamental freedoms and in the principles of peace, of the dignity and worth of the human person and of social justice proclaimed in the Charter,

Copyright © United Nations / Division for Social Policy and Development

Guidelines

This documentation is courtesy the United Nations.

Convened by the United Nations in cooperation with
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
and the World Institute on Disability (Oakland, California USA)
at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
8-12 December 1998.

A/RES/48/96

85 th plenary meeting
20 December 1993

This documentation is courtesy the United Nations.

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The World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 37th regular session on 3 December 1982, by its resolution 37/52. 1/

Objectives, Background and Concepts

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Objectives

Background

Definition

Prevention

Rehabilitation

Equalization of opportunities