Accessibility for Everyone's Benefit

Examples from Spain Environment for All, Warsaw Inclusive Secondary School and

Netherlands Internet Banking for Blind People. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U86PW0VdxeA&NR=1

Altogether or Alone - It's your choice

43 sec animation raising issues of difference as reason for bullying or being together EHRC Wales.

http://www.youtube.com/user/EqualityHumanRights#p/u/82/yDdQ4RDse34   

Anjan Bhattacharya

Despite being deaf and dumb, Anjan Bhattacharya earned a good name and fame in cricket. He was born on October 15, 1951 , in West Bengal . When he did not speak or respond to sound his family members were very disappointed.

To find out more about his story - or just want to browse the Disability Indian Network > follow this link http://www.disabilityindia.org/djstoriessep06D.cfm

Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic

Antiwar activist and Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic has turned his personal tragedy into a blessing by helping other people. As a young ma, Kovic thought that fighting a a war was a heroic, glamorous job.

Kovic was paralyzed from the waist-down after he was shot in the shoulder. Physically wounded and mentally unstable, Kovic thought he would return home to a hero's welcome. Instead, he was spat on by Americans, and placed in a miserable Veteran's Hospital.

See this link for more details -http://www.heroism.org/class/1970/kovic.html

or check this out : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-kovic/a-letter-to-the-president_b_337002.html

British Sign Language .com

Guide to signing over four hundred common words in BSL, with animated GIFs and instructions on how to make each sign.

http://www.britishsignlanguage.com/

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol

The Convention follows decades of work by the United Nations to change attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. It takes to a new height the movement from viewing persons with disabilities as "objects"  of charity, medical treatment and social protection towards viewing persons with disabilities as "subjects" with rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives based on their free and informed consent as well as being active members of society.

websites:  http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=150

http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf

DAN

DAN - The Direct action Network

Film about struggle for Human Rights in UK.

Watch this youtube.com video (link below)

Part 1 1995 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngkx8ASyWa

DARE - Nabil Shaban

DARE, Disabled Anarchist Revolutionary Enclave, a fictional group of disabled terrorists
opposed to the new eugenics movement, through genetic engineering, genetic therapy, abortion of all disabled babies...in other words, Genetic Cleansing.

DARE was originally created for the theatre in 1997, from an idea by Nabil Shaban, who was already a disabled activist with DAN, the Direct Action Network, who were protesting at the lack of accessible public transport for disabled people. Their protests and acts of civil disobedience worked. Britain now has wheelchair accessible buses, trains and taxis.

Watch it on youtube.com! > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9KnIfSqwE

Defying Stereotypes: The Way forward

Stereotypes are groups of attitudes which have little or no basis in reality and yet persist in cultures. Stereotyping reduces the individuality and character of people to false social constructs. This leads to name-calling and violence towards the subjects of stereotyping, undercutting the humanity of the victims.

There are ten main stereotypes of disabled people:

Click this link for our document on these stereotypes, and how to avoid them!

Disability News and Information Service

See their website at http://www.dnis.org/

Information is a powerful tool. It can lead to self-advocacy and empowerment, if used intelligently. This is what we firmly believe in at Disability News and Information Service (DNIS) - a fortnightly news service on the Indian disability sector.