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

Download the Prague proceedings as a PDF file (420 KB) 

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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.

Independence through Mobility by Ralf Hotchkiss is a book about the nuts and bolts of starting a shop and producing the Hotchkiss manual wheelchair with a minimum of equipment, materials, skills and capital in Third World countries. 

Ira E. Holland, President of Concepts of Independence, Inc.

Last January the tidal wave of Republican reform finally hit New York State (as it did many other states). With it came a new governor and a new set of home care priorities focused on streamlining a program that served more than 75 thousand people at a cost of nearly $2 billion per year. The governor's goal was to slash $400 million in home care services, which would have forced me and other ventilator-dependent quadriplegics into nursing homes.