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

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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990:
An activist's perspective

Marilyn Golden, Disability Rights and Education Defense Fund, U.S.A.
(The text was transcribed from her talk.)

Portugal became the fourth country in the world to officially promote web accessibility for people with disabilities, after the United States, Australia and Canada.

On July 29, 1999 the Portuguese Government, through its Council of Ministers, approved a resolution making mandatory the adoption of accessibility features for people with disabilities in the Web design of the information made available by the General Directorates and similar agencies, departments or services, as well as that rendered available by any public corporation (State Corporations, State Universities, etc.). Concretely, the design must ensure that:

Sammanställda av organisationen Not Dead Yet efter konsultation av Fil. dr. Carol J. Gill, april 1999

Om bara Kevorkian och andra läste forskningslitteratur, innan de bestämde sig för att tycka att det är förnuftigt att vilja dö när man har ett omfattande funktionshinder!

Compiled by Not Dead Yet in consultation with Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., April 1999

If only Kevorkian and others would read the research literature before deciding it is reasonable to want to die when you have an extensive disability!

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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