(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 June 1996
at the 569th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

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The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,

Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress, while respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms;

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Activities in the field of employment aim at completing or enlarging the provisions of Recommendation No. R (92) 6 on a coherent policy for people with disabilities (chapter VI on vocational guidance and training and chapter VII on employment).

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Construction of the man-made environment is based on the assumption that there exists an "average" person. However, there is no standardised person. Every individual deviates from the norm in one way or another: age, height, width, weight, strength, speed, sight, hearing, stamina, mental faculties, etc. Consequently, facilities built for the average person are not necessarily equally accessible for everybody.

(adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 9 April 1992
at the 474th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

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Report of the CIB Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments
Harare, Zimbabwe, January 16-18, 1992

Introducing access legislation for
architects and planners in Mauritius

Avinash Bhandari, Ministry of Works, Mauritius

In English: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996

by: Patrick Wm. Connally, Spring 1999

by Concrete Change, 1998

Section 6

MEANS OF ACCESS TO AND INTO THE DWELLING

Objective

6.1 The objective is to make reasonable provision within the boundary or the plot of the dwelling or a disabled person to approach and gain access into the dwelling from the point of alighting from a vehicle which may be within C outside the plot. In most circumstances it should be possible to provide a level or ramped approach.

January 25, 1999

Dear Not Dead Yet Members and Supporters:

The courts of Michigan are preparing to send a worldwide message about the euthanasia of people with disabilities. Will Jack Kevorkian be convicted and imprisoned? Or will he be acquitted once more, never to be charged again?

Could it happen? A serial killer of disabled people, out on the streets, free to kill again?

Yes. It’s happened before. Kevorkian has only been prosecuted in connection with the deaths of six of his estimated 130 victims.

by Dr. Angus Clarke, Institute of Medical Genetics,
University of Wales College of Medicine