Publications
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Reports and Websites of Interest
Assistive Devices
Built Environment
- Disability Dimension in Development Action: Manual on Inclusive Planning
- ESCWA - Accessibility for the Disabled: A Design Manual For A Barrier-Free Environment
- Integrating Appropriate Measures for People with Disabilities in the Infrastructure Sector
- International Best Practices in Universal Design [PDF]
- Subjective measurement of participation and environmental barriers and facilitators in population surveys : use of standardized tools with a sub-sample of the Quebec Activity Limitations Survey (QALS)
- Universal Design and Visitability
- Comprehension, awareness and dissemination of disability issues by Handicap International
- ILO Code of Practice: managing disability in the work place (2002) by International Labour Office
Children and Youth
- Innocenti Digest on the Rights of Children with Disabilities by UNICEF
- Innocenti Research Center: Innocenti Digest on the Rights of Children with Disabilities (Volume 13) by UNICEF
- Innocenti Insight: Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States by UNICEF
- It's About Ability by UNICEF
Civil Society
- Strengthening civil society influence on the disability issue by Handicap International
- Principal international actors and networks of civil society by Handicap International
Community living
- Creating Successful Campaigns for Community Living by European Coalition for Community Living [WORD]
Decent Work
- Employment for persons with disabilities Fact Sheet [PDF]
- Managing Disability in the Workplace
- Facts on Disability in the World of Work by ILO
- The Right to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities by International Labour Organization
- Achieving Equal Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities Through Legislation: Guidelines by International Labour Office
E-Accessibility
- Global Audit of Web Accessibility - Full Report (PDF)-[MS Word]
- Global Audit of Web Accessibility -Executive Summary
- Joint ITU and G3ict Forum 2008 on “The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for ICT Standards (21 April 2008)
- The Accessibility Imperative: Implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Information and Communication Technologies
Emergency and Disaster
- Bonn Declaration (November 2007)
- Emergency Management Research and People With Disabilities: A Resource Guide by U.S.A. Department of Education (April 2008)
- World Disasters Report 2007: Focus on Discrimination by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Disabilities Among Refugees and Conflit-Affected Population by Women's Commission fro Refugee Women and Children (June 2008)
- Disabilities Among Refugees and Conflit-Affected Population / Resource Kit Fieldworkers by Women's Commission fro Refugee Women and Children (June 2008)
Gender
- WomenWatch: Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
- Disability Rights, Gender, and Development: A Resources Tool for Action by Wellesley Centers For Women (2008)
Health
- A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities by Hesperian Foundation
- The Deaf Peers' Education Manual - for basic understanding of sexual health, HIV and AIDS by Sahaya International/GRACE
- Sexual and Reproductive Health of Persons with Disabilities by United Nations Population Fund
- Sexual and Reproductive Health of Persons with Disabilities by UNFPA
Human Rights
- The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability byUnited Nations, 2002)
- Guía Básica para comprender y utilizar la Convención sobre los derechos de las personas con discapacidad-[MS Word]
- Human Rights. YES! Action and Advocacy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Regional and country reports on disability from the International Disability Rights Monitor by IDRM
- Training Manual on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on progress in the implementation of the recommendations contained in the study on the human rights of persons with disabilities-[MS Word]
- Human rights and disability by Handicap International
- The human rights-based approach to relief and development by Handicap International
- We Have Human Rights: A human rights handbook for people with developmental disabilities by Harvard Project on Disability, 2008
Inclusive Education
- Inclusive Education at Work: Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools
- Overcoming Exclusion through Inclusive Approaches in Education Conceptual Paper by UNESCO
Inclusive Development
- A Handbook on Mainstreaming Disability by VSO
- Checklist for Inclusion (Excerpt from 'Building an Inclusive Development Community Manual')
- Disability and Poverty: A Survey of World Bank Poverty Assessments and Implications
- Disability, Poverty, and Development by DFID
- Good Practices for the Economic Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Developing Countries: Funding Mechanisms for Self-Employment by Handicap International
- Making PRSP Inclusive (January 2006)
- Making PRSP Inclusive Manual
- People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to Outcome,” by Human Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank (May 2007)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Its Implementation & Relevance for the World Bank
- Social Analysis and Disability: A Guidance Note – Incorporating Disability-Inclusive Development into Bank-Support Projects by World Bank
- Disability policies: strategies for mainstreaming by Handicap International
- International cooperation policies on disability in emergency and development by Handicap International
- Make Development Inclusive: How to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management guidelines of the European Commission (2008)
- Economic Implications of Chronic Illness and Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by the World Bank
- The United Nations Development Agenda: Development for All (2007)
Intellectual Disabilities
- Atlas: Global Resources for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities by WHO (2007)
- Behavioral Outcomes of Deinstitutionalization for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Review of Studies Conducted Between 1980 and 1999
- Hear Our Voices: People with an Intellectual disability and their families speak out on Poverty and Exclusion - Español
- We have human rights: A human rights handbook fro people with developmental disabilities by Harvard Project on Disability (2008)
Media
- Creature Discomforts by Leonard Cheshire Disability
- the UN Works for People and the Planet: Difference is Normal
Parliamentarians
- Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol: From Exclusion to Equality, Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities - in PDF
- Guide á l'usage des parlementaires: la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées et son Protocole facultatif: De l'exclusion à l'ègalité, Réalisation des droits des personnes handicapées [PDF]
Statistics
- Measuring Disability Prevalence by World Bank
- Data and studies on the disability issues by Handicap International
- Students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages: Statistics and Indicators of OAS Countries by OECD(2007)