Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the 1978 amendments to the Rehabilitation Act. These Amendments included Title VII, a new grant program for Independent Living centers. Title VII was hailed as a victory for the Independent Living Movement. Today, there are approximately 200 Independent Living centers, many of which had their beginnings in the Title VII program. But with the passage of the 1978 Amendments, the Independent Living (IL) movement crossed a threshold and entered a new stage in its life cycle as a social movement.

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

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Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Harare 1992

Neville Cohen, Chairman Industries, South Africa

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Harare 1992

Febby Chizima, ZAFOD, Lusaka, Zambia

Report of the Second International Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments:
Renewal of Inner Cities
Prague, October 15-17, 1987

Canadian Action on Handicapping Environments

Jean-Remi Champagne, National Research Council Canada

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Disability Awareness in Action, 1999
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Written by Rachel Hurst
Designed and edited by Richard Light,
Published by Disability Awareness in Action.

On January 15th, 1998 (Martin Luther King's birthday), in a ceremony in the White House East Room, Justin Dart was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian honour in the U.S.A. There is no disabled person who deserves this more. Justin has been a fighter for human rights and democracy all his adult life. he has witnessed the degradation, segregation and oppression suffered by so many disabled people around the world and has not only given them his love and empathy, but given his time, his energy and whatever resources he could to changing society to ensure that these horrors no longer happened.

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Letter of transmittal

Dear friends,

We have learned that on July 28th the government discussed a proposal to set aside 4 billion Czech crowns to construct new buildings for institutional care. This will happen because many existing institutions will be closed down - not due to the good sense of the government, but because the buildings have to be returned to their former owners (restitutions). The owners naturally do not want institutions for people with disabilities in their buildings.