Independent Living Institute

As I am not an anthropologist, sociologist or historian, I make no claim to understanding culture from any of those perspectives. As a psychologist, however, I have become interested in the impact of culture on the emotional well-being of individuals. Moreover, my interest is deepened by my own minority group membership (Disabled people).

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

Gisoo Ghaem, Building and Housing Research Center, Teheran, Iran

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Charlotta Friborg
Medarbetare på ledarredaktionen DN
Dagens Nyheter Tisdagen 1 juni 1999 Ledare

I Sverige har vi gärna velat se oss som föregångare på handikappolitikens område. Men fortfarande köper kollektivtrafikföretag in bussar som rullstolsburna inte kan ta sig ombord på. Drygt hälften av landets grundskolor är svårtillgängliga för rörelsehindrade. Fortfarande förbises tillgängligheten vid nybyggnader. Många funktionshindrade tvingas kämpa för rätten till personlig assistent.

Address by Mr. Padraig Flynn
Member of the European Commission responsible for
Employment and Social Affairs
Dublin, 17 April 1998

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am delighted to be with you today.

This conference takes place as European social policy passes into a new and challenging phase. It is one of modernisation, of the systematic pursuit of an agenda for change in how European labour markets operate.

The mark of the extent of this change is the commitment by Member State governments to put in place a co-ordinated strategy based on agreed, quantified, comparable targets for creating employment and preventing unemployment, above all long-term unemployment.

Published in Swain, J., Finkelstein, V., French, S., and Oliver, M. (1993). Disabling barriers - enabling environments. London, Sage Publications, in association with the Open University, ISBN 0-8039-8824-9. Prepared from presentation to London SHAPE Seminar on Arts and Disability on 20 November 1991.

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Föredragahållare

Adolf Ratzka, ordförande STIL, Independent Living och dagens socialpolitik

Bo Rothstein, professor, Den offentliga sektorn och individens självbestämmande

Adolf Ratzka, ordförande STIL, Vad kommer LSS innebära för STIL och andra initiativ?

Socialminister Bengt Westerberg, Den nya handikappreformen för ett jämlikt och värdigt liv

José Ferraz, universitetslektor i nationalekonomi, förvaltningshögskola Göteborg,
Svårigheterna vid prissättningen av kommunala tjänster

Björn Jidéus, verksamhetsledare STIL, m fl., STIL som komplement till de kommunala tjänsterna

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

Robert Fern, The Canadian Parks Service, Canada

Seminar Contents

The fishing is free with your disability
You don't need a licence like the rest.
Movies are half the price, well isn't that nice?
And the parking spots are nothing but the best.

Well, don't you wish that you were disabled?
Disabled is the better way to be.
With crutches, canes and braces, wheelchairs to run races
Don't you wish that you were just like me?

The deaf have got sign language,
the blind have got their dogs
Their loyal trusted guides are at their sides.
Well everyone has their vices, but we've got our devices
Oh, don't you envy us our privileged lives?

Direktutbetalningskampanjen i Storbritannien

Inlägg vid ENIL:s seminarium i Stockholm 9-11 juni, 1996

In English