Priority themes
- Priority themes
- Mainstreaming disability
- Disability and Statistics
- Disability and Women
- Disability and HIV/AIDS
- Mental Health and Development
- Development and Human Rights
- Millennium Development Goals
- Disability and Sports
- Natural Disasters and Emergency Situations
The alphabetical listing below includes key areas of the work of the United Nations for persons with disabilities resources and provides related tools and resources:
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Accessibility
- UN Expert Group Meeting on Building Inclusive Society and Development Through Promoting ICT Accessibility: Emerging Issues and Trends (Tokyo Japan, 19-21 April 2012
- Expert Group Meeting on Accessibility, World Bank Headquarters, 28-30 June 2010
- Paratransit for mobility-impaired persons in developing regions: Starting up and scaling up (Access Exchange International, 2012)
- Guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs in less resourced settings by WHO, ISPO, USAID (2008)
- 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
- Global Audit of Web Accessibility - Full Report (PDF)-[MS Word]
- Global Audit of Web Accessibility -Executive Summary
- The Accessibility Imperative: Implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Information and Communication Technologies
Awareness-raising
- The UN Works for People and the Planet: Difference is Normal
- The UN Works for People and the Planet: Know Your Rights - From Disability to Possibility
Children
- Interactive Panel Discussion on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children with Disabilities, 17 June, 1.15 to 2.30 p.m., Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters, New York
- 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
- UNICEF Statistics - Children with Disabilities
Civil Society
- Expert Group Meeting on "Making it work: civil society participation in the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities"
- 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]
Data and statistics
- Disability and statistics
- Disability Statistics
- International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health [ICF]
- 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)
- Les personnes ayant des incapacités: encore plus pauvres et à part…qu'égales : Les facteurs personnels et environnementaux associés à l'appauvrissement des personnes ayant des incapacités et de leur famille [French]
Decent Work
- International Labour Organization [ILO]
- Factsheet on disability and employment
- 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
- ILO Code of Practice: managing disability in the work place (2002) by International Labour Office
Education
- Making education a reality for children with disabilities, Side-event to the 2011 High-level Segment of the substantive session of ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review, 5 July 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
- UNESCO: Education and Disability
- Inclusive Education at Work: Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools
- Overcoming Exclusion through Inclusive Approaches in Education Conceptual Paper by UNESCO
Economics
- DESA Briefing Series: Disability and Economics: The nexus between disability, education and employment. Panel discussion held at UN Headquarters on 1 July 2011
Family
HIV/AIDS
Health
- Mental Health and Development
- Disability and rehabilitation (WHO) (See also, Disability and Rehabilitation Newsletter)
- Mental Health in Primary Care (WHO)
- Prevention of blindness and deafness [WHO]
- 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
- Relationship between Development and 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
ICT – Information and communications technology
- G3ict The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs
- 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)
Mainstreaming disability in development
- Mainstreaming disability in the development agenda
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Asian and Pacific Decade for Disabled Persons, 2003-2012 [ESCAP]
- 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)
Media
- Creature Discomforts by Leonard Cheshire Disability
- the UN Works for People and the Planet: Difference is Normal
Mental Health
- Mental Health and Development
- 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)
Natural Disasters and emergency situations
- Disability, natural disasters and emergency situations
- 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)
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 (PDF version; also available in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Nepali)
Rural Areas
Sports and leisure
- Disability and Sports
- Panel Discussion on Sports for Inclusive Development: Sports, Disability and Development: Key to empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 27 June 2011.
Statistics
- Disability and Statistics: Disability-inclusive design, planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Guidelines and Principles for the Development of Disability Statistics
- Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
- Washington Group on Disability Statistics (see also Washington Group on Disability Statistics (US-CDC))
- World Bank: Data and Statistics on Disability
- ILO: Statistics on the employment situation of people with disabilities
Women and girls with disabilities
- Women and girls with disabilities
- Factsheet on women and girls with disabilities
- 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)
- Women With Disability & The Human Right to Health: A Policy Paper (May 2010)
Youth
- Including youth with disabilities in development: Interactive discussion on 25 July 2011. Side-event to High-Level Meeting on Youth (25 - 26 July 2011), UN Headquarters, New York
- UNICEF - Voices of Youth
- Youth at the United Nations: Youth and Disability
- No Barriers No Borders - Mixed-Ability Projects