Hidden Sisters: Women and Girls with Disabilities

Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002

Social Development Division, United Nations ESCAP

Hidden Sisters: Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region

Part 7 of 7

References

1 International Labour Office, Dispelling the Shadow of Neglect, a survey on women and disabilities in six Asian and Pacific countries, Geneva 1989.

2 Gerarado Arroyo Porta, The Situation of Disabled Women in Rural Areas: a problem in need of concerted action. Paper presented at the Second DPI Asia Pacific Regional Assembly and Training Seminar on Equalization of Opportunities, 27 August-2 September 1988, Bangkok.

3 Einar Helander, Prejudice and Dignity: an introduction to community-based rehabilitation, United Nations Development Programme, New York, 1992.

4 Peter Coleridge, Disability, Liberation and Development, Oxfam, Oxford, 1993.

5 Einar Helander, op cit.

6 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Manila Declaration on the Agenda for Action on Social Development in the ESCAP Region (ST/ESCAP/1464).

7 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002: The Starting Point (ST/ESCAP/1342).

8 Commission resolution 49/6: Proclamation and Agenda for Action for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002.

9 Sushila Paudel, in a paper contributed to the Training Workshop for Women with Disabilities, 22-23 June 1995, Bangkok.

10 China Disabled Persons Federation, in a paper contributed to the Training Workshop for Women with Disabilities, 22-23 June 1995, Bangkok.

11 P. Mendis, Report from a CBR programme in Viet Nam, quoted by Einar Helander in Prejudice and Dignity.

12 United Nations General Assembly resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993 on the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities.

13 UNICEF, Relief and Rehabilitation of Traumatized Children in War Situations. Paper submitted for the World Summit on Children, 1990.

14 Jakarta Declaration for the Advancement of Women in Asia and the Pacific, 1994 (ST/ESCAP/1411).

15 Quoted by Judith Heumann in How Women with Disabilities Can Advance into the Mainstream of Society. Paper for the Seminar on Disabled Women, 20-24 August 1990, Vienna.

16 Esther Boylan, Women and Disability, Zed Books, London, 1991.

17 N S Hema, in a paper contributed to the Training Workshop for Women with Disabilities, 22-23 June 1995, Bangkok.

18 D. Perry, More Equal than Some, London, 1984. Quoted by Sheila Stace in Vocational Rehabilitation for Women with Disabilities, ILO, Geneva, 1986.

19 F. Bowe, Disabled Women in America: a statistical report drawn from census data. President s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, Washington D.C., 1984. Quoted in Women and Disability: some issues. Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations, Vienna, 1990.

20 Women and Disability, paper prepared by the Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations, Vienna, for the Seminar on Disabled Women, Vienna, 20-24 August 1990.

21 United Nations, Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (A/CONF. 116/28).

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