Independent Living Institute

Följande artikel publicerades i DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL; Asia-Pacific Region, Vol.11, No. 2 1999. Disabled Peoples' International.

17-20 maj 1998 höll Chung Nip polio center och Human Care Association of Japan i det första seminariet om Independent Living i Seoul, Korea.

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The following article appeared in DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL; Asia-Pacific Region, Vol.11, No. 2 1999. Disabled Peoples' International. 

On 17-20 May, 1998, the first Independent Living seminar in Seoul, Korea was conducted jointly by the Chung Nip polio Center in Korea and Human Care Association of Japan.

by Shoji and Yukiko Nakanishi, DPI-Japan
April 1998

The Japanese Government has been trying to promote decentralization for the last 6 - 7 years. The bad economic situation has strengthened this trend, with expectations that local budgets to be allocated to support it. In the field of social welfare, the plan is to move the responsibility to provide many services from the national level to the prefectural level, and from the prefectural level to the municipal level. Disabled persons are afraid that some services will be cut due to scarce local resources.

Effects on the lives of people with disabilities:

by Yukiko Nakanishi
President, Asia Disability Institute, Chairperson, DPI-Japan International Committee

A popular Japanese expression says that "A women has no house to rest in anytime", meaning that a woman should obey her father as a child, her husband as a wife, and her children as an elderly person. In Japan, as elsewhere in Asia, women continue to be treated as substantially inferior to men.

The problems of women with disabilities are especially more intensive than those of women without disabilities. The issues and problems facing women with disabilities are numerous as all of you are already aware. Poverty and injustice are cores of vulnerability and deprivation of women with disabilities.

Ms. Nadash, a graduate student at Columbia University, is former Director, National Institute on Consumer-Directed Long-Term Services, The National Council on Aging.

The following is an article from American Rehabilitation Volume 24, Number 3 Summer Autumn 1998 Personal Assistance Services Part 1 of 2.
American Rehabilitation is the official publication of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 330 C Street S.W. Washington D.C. 20202-2531

"Legislation for Human Rights"

Stockholm, Sweden, 24 August 1998

by Dr. Federico Montero

Background

Seminar on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
from a North and South Perspective
Stockholm, Sweden 23 August, 1998

Dr. Federico Montero, Chairman of the Costa Rican Disability Association

Gesetz über Unterstützung und Dienstleistungen für gewisse
Funktionsbehinderte und das Gesetz über Fürsorgeleistungen

Ministerium für Gesundheit und Soziales
Internationales Sekretariat

Postanschrift:
S-103 33 Stockholm
Schweden

September 1993

Inhalt

Das Gesetz über Unterstützung und Dienstleistungen für gewisse Funktionsbehinderte (SFS 1993: 387)

Das Gesetz über Fürsorgeleistungen (SFS 1993: 389)

by M. Miles & Farhad Hossain, 1999

Other documents by M. Miles.

This chapter was first published in: F. Armstrong & L. Barton (eds) Disability, Human Rights and Education: cross-cultural perspectives, pp. 67-86. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, isbn 0-335-20457-0, 1999. It is reprinted here by permission of the Open University Press, with slight revision.

Synopsis

Presentation at the ENIL Seminar in Southampton March 9, 2003

by Ann Macfarlane MBE

Older People & Legislation on Assessment & Direct Payments, Summary of the legal provisions,
by Ann Macfarlane MBE, March 2003

“Sometimes, I have to skip having a bath in order to chase my dreams.”

Introduction