Conference: 25 Years of Independent Living in Sweden
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Intellectual disabilities
People First is a self-advocacy organization operated by and for people with mental (intellectual) handicaps, with help from nonvoting non-disabled advisors. People First has been in existence for about a decade. Curtis describes "good" advisors as being:
People who have severe disabilities have lived under centuries of legalized dependency and ostracism. With every law that showed the liberalizing of society's commitment to disabled people has come the realization by disabled people that discrimination in the community didn't really end. This discrimination continued because oppressive changes were introduced to limit society's obligations and the few progressive changes that were introduced were never supported financially. It has become obvious that institutional prejudice shall not be overcome by good intentioned but uncoordinated and financially unsupported changes.
Book ReviewChanging Lanes...
by Michael Creurer
Changing Lanes... A guide to help when aging, illness or disability forces us into the Slow Lane.Changing Lanes, by Michael Creurer offers valuable psycho-educational concepts combined with narratives about the author and his disabled peers. This information helps people cope with the myriad of emotional issues that are presented as people experience physical challenges which are presented as we age, experience illness or physical disability.
Contents
Part One - lane changes
Josie was a wheelchair user spent 11 years inside
A short stay institution where she was banged up without trial
11 years the white coats met and talked and analyzed
Dispensed the drugs politely until one day Josie died
Not me said the social worker I was Josie's friend
She was our best customer I was with her till the end
Our boss said no resources were available at the time
And I'm just an employee can't put my job on the line
Not me said the director I can't be held to blame
It's the politicians who make decisions I'm just a pawn in their game I agree
Most strongly that Ms Evans was done wrong
But the council wanted cuts and I had to sing their song
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The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status. (Article 14) European Convention on Human Rights
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 June 1996
at the 569th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
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The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,
Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress, while respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms;
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Activities in the field of employment aim at completing or enlarging the provisions of Recommendation No. R (92) 6 on a coherent policy for people with disabilities (chapter VI on vocational guidance and training and chapter VII on employment).
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Construction of the man-made environment is based on the assumption that there exists an "average" person. However, there is no standardised person. Every individual deviates from the norm in one way or another: age, height, width, weight, strength, speed, sight, hearing, stamina, mental faculties, etc. Consequently, facilities built for the average person are not necessarily equally accessible for everybody.
(adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 9 April 1992
at the 474th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
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Index
Report of the CIB Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments
Harare, Zimbabwe, January 16-18, 1992
Introducing access legislation for
architects and planners in Mauritius
Avinash Bhandari, Ministry of Works, Mauritius
Croatians are proud of their disability policy. A disability ombudsman who has a disability has been appointed and accessibility and legislation are on the right track. A law on personal assistance will take effect in 2010.
by: Patrick Wm. Connally, Spring 1999
by Concrete Change, 1998
Section 6
MEANS OF ACCESS TO AND INTO THE DWELLING
Objective
6.1 The objective is to make reasonable provision within the boundary or the plot of the dwelling or a disabled person to approach and gain access into the dwelling from the point of alighting from a vehicle which may be within C outside the plot. In most circumstances it should be possible to provide a level or ramped approach.
January 25, 1999
Dear Not Dead Yet Members and Supporters:
The courts of Michigan are preparing to send a worldwide message about the euthanasia of people with disabilities. Will Jack Kevorkian be convicted and imprisoned? Or will he be acquitted once more, never to be charged again?
Could it happen? A serial killer of disabled people, out on the streets, free to kill again?
Yes. It’s happened before. Kevorkian has only been prosecuted in connection with the deaths of six of his estimated 130 victims.
by Dr. Angus Clarke, Institute of Medical Genetics,
University of Wales College of Medicine
by Eli (Elizabeth) Clare, 1999
What connections can be made between loggers and drag queens, between environmentalists and paraplegics? Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, a new book by Eli Clare, explores the landscape of disability, class, queerness, and child abuse, telling stories that echo with the sounds of an Oregon logging and fishing town, and with the lively political debates of crip crusaders and transgender warriors.
Stockholm, Sverige, 24 augusti 1998
Inger Claesson Wästberg, Handikappombudsman
Det är en glädje att få öppna den här konferensen som är ett samarbete mellan Independent living Sverige och handikappombudsmannen. Vi har valt ett tema som är centralt för människor med funktionsnedsättningar; hur de mänskliga rättigheterna ska kunna lagfästas och upprätthållas också för människor med funktionsnedsättningar.
© Los Angeles Daily News - 29 April 1999
by Mona Charen
Center for Independent Living
June 1996
We are disabled people who want to live as independently as possible in the community with staff to support us. In spite of all our campaigning efforts directed toward the government and the society in general to make independent living possible for people with disabilities, we are still a long way from our goal. We need more support to reach our goal.
To get support for independent living for disabled people is difficult because our requirements are not understood easily by society in general and the national government and other official sectors are not working earnestly enough towards fulfilling our requirements.
[Spanska slagord från demonstrationen]
[Franska slagord från demonstrationen]
Joe Bollard: Sista veckan i september 2003 samlades människor med funktionshinder från hela Europa i Strasbourg. Avsikten var att marschera till EU-parlamentets byggnad. Demonstrationen var en del av kampanjen för Independent Living för människor med funktionshinder och fick namnet "Strasbourg Freedom Drive", frihetsresan till Strasbourg. Aldrig tidigare hade så många människor med funktionshinder slutit upp för en manifestation utanför EU-parlamentet
''Close your eyes and dial your home phone number,'' says Gregg Vanderheiden, holding out a cardboard mock-up of a typical cellular phone.
His interviewer obliges. But when she opens her eyes, she sees she made a mess of it, punching the phone's program keys instead of digits.
''Try again,'' Vanderheiden says, handing over another cardboard phone.
This one has a raised nib on the 5 key and ridges surrounding the digits, and her fingers trace the pattern smoothly.
''Now, every key has a tactile clue and you can dial with confidence,'' he explains.
by Art Campos
Bee Staff Writer, May 13, 1993, Davis, California
John Hessler's spirit could have been destroyed along with his spinal cord that day in 1957 when he dove into a swimming hole. But the 6-foot-7 inch Hessler wasn't one who wanted to spend the rest of his life in hospitals or sitting in a wheelchair at home.
He went on to help revolutionize the nation's attitudes toward disabled people - first by entering the University of California, Berkeley, and later by helping create the Center for Independent Living, a program now run in 27 cities.
Paper delivered at the Disability and Society Conference Autumn 1996
by Jane Campbell