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United Nations resources on disability available on-line

This page contains links to articles, technical manuals, publications and other disability-specific resources available at the Internet sites of the organizations and agencies of the United Nations system. Links to international norms and standards are available under parliamentary documents.   The organizations are listed alphabetically.

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

• Activities: Disability
• ESCWA co-organizes a Workshop on "Self-reliance and Employment of Disabled Persons" at UN House on 19 June 2002
• ESCWA Organizes Intensive One-Day Workshop, "The Role of the Family for Self-Reliance and Advocacy for People with Disabilities

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• “Mushroom Cultivation for People with Disabilities - A Training Manual.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,  Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok, Thailand   2001.
• “Putting ability before disability in Thailand and Cambodia.” News and Highlights. 1 December 2000. 
• “Disability is not only a consequence of poverty; it is also cause of rural hunger,” Press Release 01/94.
• “HIV/AIDS and Disability” Statement by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Forty-eighth Session of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.  Item 16 of the Agenda. United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Geneva, August 1996

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

• Persons with Disabilities: New concepts related to Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) concerning the access to air services and airport facilities by elderly and disabled persons introduced by the Eleventh Session of the Facilitation Division (FAL/11)

International Labor Organization (ILO)

• Education, employment and training policies and programmes for youth with disabilities in four European countries Action Programme on Youth Unemployment. Clement Russell.
• Study on the involvement of entrepreneurs with disabilities in the IYB Uganda programme by Steven Nkumbi Mukiibi, Federation of Uganda Employers with David Mulya, NUDIPU- Kampala 
• "Five Years After Copenhagen," Roundtable on Disability and Social Development. Message by Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General, ILO (Geneva, 28 June 2000)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Telecommunications Act of 1996 Access to Telecommunications Service, Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Persons with Disabilities, WT Docket No. 96-198 Report and Order and Further Notice of Inquiry (29.9.99) (excerpts)

United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)

• “Childrens' Rights: The Right to Special Care for the Disabled Article 23” in Voice of Youth.
• “Ten messages about children with disabilities” Explore ideas: articles, opinions, and research about teaching and learning. 
• “Moldova: Caring for physically disabled children” by UNICEF Moldova.
• Analysis of Situation and Trends of Children in Need of Special Attention: Children with Disabilities. Joint Government of Iraq – UNICEF Programme Review 1990 –2000.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• “A computer pioneer for women and the disabled in Iraq.” UNDP Newsfront.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• “International centre for children with Disability.” News in Brief.
• The Participation of Disabled Learners in the World Education Forum: Inclusion in Education.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• Disability-adjusted life expectancy years in India, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the world in “Human Health: Health and Population Projections. ”Global Environment Outlook (GEO): Global State of the Environment Report 1997  Text and Figures

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)

• The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments on the context of disability

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

“Handicap International awarded Nansen Medal.” UNHCR Press Releases. 1 Oct 1996.      

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Gender-based violence and disability- adjusted life year.  Effects on the Economics of Reproductive Health and Family Planning Service Delivery @ Interactive Population Center

• United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

• “Laurie Moy: Online volunteer goes on-site in Uganda. Volunteers,” November 2001.
• “Danish UN Volunteer fights crippling toxin in rural Ethiopia.” News/Media, September 2001.
• “People Get the Point: Pioneering a national centre for the disabled in Cambodia.” UNV News #82 December 1998.
• “Sewing is seeing: The success-story of Alaf, a deaf seamstress in Yemen.” UNV News #81 September 1998.

World Indicator Project

• Causes of impairments of people with disability by age, sex and type of impairment or disability.

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