The background
Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the 1978 amendments to the Rehabilitation Act. These Amendments included Title VII, a new grant program for Independent Living centers. Title VII was hailed as a victory for the Independent Living Movement. Today, there are approximately 200 Independent Living centers, many of which had their beginnings in the Title VII program. But with the passage of the 1978 Amendments, the Independent Living (IL) movement crossed a threshold and entered a new stage in its life cycle as a social movement.
Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Harare 1992
Neville Cohen, Chairman Industries, South Africa
Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Harare 1992
Febby Chizima, ZAFOD, Lusaka, Zambia
Report of the Second International Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments:
Renewal of Inner Cities
Prague, October 15-17, 1987
Canadian Action on Handicapping Environments
Jean-Remi Champagne, National Research Council Canada
On January 15th, 1998 (Martin Luther King's birthday), in a ceremony in the White House East Room, Justin Dart was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian honour in the U.S.A. There is no disabled person who deserves this more. Justin has been a fighter for human rights and democracy all his adult life. he has witnessed the degradation, segregation and oppression suffered by so many disabled people around the world and has not only given them his love and empathy, but given his time, his energy and whatever resources he could to changing society to ensure that these horrors no longer happened.
Report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
on a reference from the Attorney-General
31 March 2000
on a reference from the Attorney-General
31 March 2000
Contents
Dear friends,
We have learned that on July 28th the government discussed a proposal to set aside 4 billion Czech crowns to construct new buildings for institutional care. This will happen because many existing institutions will be closed down - not due to the good sense of the government, but because the buildings have to be returned to their former owners (restitutions). The owners naturally do not want institutions for people with disabilities in their buildings.
Independence through Mobility by Ralf Hotchkiss is a book about the nuts and bolts of starting a shop and producing the Hotchkiss manual wheelchair with a minimum of equipment, materials, skills and capital in Third World countries.
Ira E. Holland, President of Concepts of Independence, Inc.
Last January the tidal wave of Republican reform finally hit New York State (as it did many other states). With it came a new governor and a new set of home care priorities focused on streamlining a program that served more than 75 thousand people at a cost of nearly $2 billion per year. The governor's goal was to slash $400 million in home care services, which would have forced me and other ventilator-dependent quadriplegics into nursing homes.
Internet Industry Association
N E W S R E L E A S E
28 August 2000
For Immediate Release
IIA Warns SOGOC: Disability Web Decision Puts Businesses on Notice
Introduction
Genetics and bioethics are issues at the forefront of media interest. They directly affect disabled people's lives but we are not being invited to partake in the current debates and are mainly unaware of the issues. This seminar aims to change this situation and give disabled people a voice.
Aims and Objectives
In: Seminar on Bioethics and Disabled People, 1998.
CANBERRA, June 8, 2000 (AAP) - The elderly and disabled use new technologies least, even though they could benefit most from them, a new report has found.
Attorney-General Daryl Williams today tabled in parliament a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) report which found new technology could bring huge advantages to the elderly and disabled if access problems were removed.
The report into new service and information technologies said the main barriers to using the Internet and other electronic services for the disabled and elderly were cost, limited access, concerns about privacy and security, and no human touch.
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by Dr. Bill Albert,
Chair of the Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
and the International Sub Committee of
the British Council of Disabled People, 1998
The following paper draws heavily on the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People's (BCODP) discussions on the issue of genetics and disabled people. Please note that this paper is NOT BCODP policy but rather a discussion document intended to encourage debate within the movement. For more information on the issue of genetics and disabled people BCODP please refer to the BCODP web site.
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Assistive devices include a variety of tools and equipment that enable disabled people to be independent. A wheelchair can enable a person who cannot walk to move around their home, or to work or school. A white cane may make it possible for a person with a visual difficulty to be mobile, and a hearing aid can enable a deaf person to use a telephone. Provision of such devices help to ensure that people with disabilities function as active members of society.
The World Programme of Action Concerning People with Disabilities, launched by the United Nations in 1983, identifies three major programmes that are central if the marginalisation and oppression of disabled people throughout the world is to be addressed. These are:
European Citizen Award 2009 till Adolf Ratzka
European Anti-Discrimination Council ger sin årliga utmärkelse European Citizen Award till Adolf Ratzka, Independent Living Institute för sitt långa arbete mot diskriminerng.
Background
Peter Singer, recently appointed to a tenured chair at the Center for Human Values, begins his first semester of teaching at Princeton University in October, 1999. Princeton University is a prominent leader is shaping national policy on bio-ethics.
Singer is arguing for major policy changes: people with significant cognitive disabilities and infants with any known disability should be killed when there is a benefit to the non-disabled people around them to having them removed.
The first targets of Singer's proposed policy changes are people with cognitive disabilities, perhaps the most devalued members of our community. It is time for all of us to come together in strength to oppose any threat to any one of our brothers and sisters.
Positiv överraskning i Europa Parlamentet borde påverka den pågående svenska utredningen om otillgänglighet som diskrimineringsgrund
av Independent Living Institute, 2009-04-08
EU Parlamentet röstade den 2 april 2009 med 360 mot 227 röster för en föstärkning av det planerade anti-diskrimineringsdirektivet. Bl a ska direktivet uttryckligen betecknar otillgänglinga allmänna kommmunikationer och byggnader som diskrimineringsgrund. Här följer några viktiga utdrag ur texten från Europarlamentets hemsida
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HSO gör kraftfullt uttalande med sitt val av Ingrid Burman som ny ordförande
HSO, Handikappförbunden, valde den 13 maj den före detta riksdagskvinnan Ingrid Burman som ordförande. Organisationen består av 43 medlemsförbund som sammanlagt representerar en halv milljon medlemmar. Eftersom Ingrid Burman inte har ett funktionshinder kan man tolka HSO:s val att ingen bland HSO:s medlemmar med funktionshinder anses kapabel att vara HSO:s ordförande, att egen erfarenhet av funktionshinder räknas inte som merit. Återigen får vi stå ut med att andra för vår talan, att allmänheten får intrycket att personer med funktionshinder inte kan tala för sig själva.
IL 25 years Documentation - Adolf Ratzka on ILI
25 years of Independent Living in Sverige
Panel: Models, milestones and achievements by the Swedish Independent Living organisations, Adof Ratzka, 08.11.2008
Independent Living Institute – a think tank for policy development
ILI was established to push issues that the assistance cooperative STIL was not capable of pursuing. The objective was and is to transfer the IL-view on personal assistance also to other areas of society for example transports and technical aids.
IL 25 years Documentation - Anders Westgerd
25 years of Independent Living in Sverig
Panel: Models, milestones and achievements by the Swedish Independent Living organisations, Anders Westgerd, 08.11.2008
The Gothenburg co-operative for Independent Living has on many accounts developed in the same way as STIL. I just want to give a short account of GIL’s history. It started 1983 when a man by the name of Rolf Bergfors watched a program on the TV where the philosophy of Independent Living was presented. He was an enterprising man and caught on to this.
25 years of Independent Living in Sweden- Documentation - Susanne Berg on STIL
Panel discussion: Models, milestones and achievements by the Swedish Independent Living organisations, Susanne Berg, November 8 2008.
STIL is the oldest Independent Living organization in Sweden. The organization started the Swedish movement and therefore has worked the longest with the Independent Living model.
At the conference in 1983 the Independent Living movement was presented by Ed Roberts and Judy Heumann among others. It was presented as a movement with two sides, two legs.
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IL 25 years Documentation - Adolf Ratzka
25 years of Independent Living in Sweden
Speech by Adolf Ratzka, Director Independent Living Institute, 2008.11.28.
The Independent Living movement and social policy
Social policy is not created by those living under it but by politicians and administrators. The Swedish Independent Living movement is an exception: we made social policy, we change municipal home help assistance to personal assistance under our own direction.
IL 25 years Documentation - Kerstin Nilsson
25 years of Independent Living in Sverige
IL 25 år dokumentation - Marilyn Golden
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Panel: Independent Living - nationella exempel,
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Internationell konferens 28-29 november 2008
IL 25 år dokumentation - Hadar Cars
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Avslutningstal Hadar Cars 08.11.28.
Kära gäster och vänner,
I min egenskap av representant för Stockholms stad är det ett stort nöje för mig att välkomna er till Stockholm. Det är ett privilegium för Stockholm att ha er här eftersom er organisation inte bara den i Sverige utan ert internationella budskap har betytt fantastiskt mycket.
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Avslutande reflektioner över dagens anföranden
IL 25 år dokumentation - Judy Heumann
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Panel: Independent Living utomlands - internationella perspektiv,
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Panel: Independent Living utomlands - internationella perspektiv,
anförande av Kalle Könkkölä 08.11.28
En Tröskeln till framtiden
IL 25 år dokumentation - Horst Frehe
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Panel: Independent Living - nationella exempel,
anförande av Horst Frehe 08.11.2008.
IL 25 år Dokumentation - Bente Skansgård
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Panel: Independent Living utomlands - nationella exempel,
IL 25 years Documentation - Bente Skansgård
25 år av Independent Living i Sverige
Panel: Independent Living utomlands - nationella exempel,
IL 25 år Dokumentation - Hadar Cars
25 years of Independent Living in Sweden
Closing speech by Hadar Cars 08.11.28.
Dear guests and friends,
For me, in my capacity as representative for the City of Stockholm, it is a great pleasure to welcome you all to Stockholm It is a privilege for Stockholm to have you here because your organisation, not only the one in Sweden, but your international message has meant a fantastic lot.
IL 25 years Documentation - Henrik Berggren
25 years of Independent Living in Sweden
Closing remarks by Henrik Berggren
I think Adolf invited me, not because I know very much about Independent Living, but because I am passionately interested in issues of welfare policies, individual rights and social movements. As a matter of fact I sort of have a small debt to pay to the Independent Living movement. As it happens, I also was in Berkeley in the 1980’s.
