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HONOURARY MEMBERSHIP
[Last updated Tuesday, January 15, 2008]
The Honourary Life Members is a way to publicly acknowledge the contributions of some of our key leaders. It is also a way to keep the history of Inclusion International alive and to tell the members about those who have worked so hard to build the strength and credibility of Inclusion International. Honourary members FROM 2006: Don Wills, Francoise Jan,Gordon Porter, JB Munro, John O'Gorman, Therese Kempeners, Victor Wahlstrom, Walter Eigner. FROM 2008: Barb Goode, Desmond Corrigan, Fred Heddell, Moussa Charafeddine, Robert Martin.
WALTER EIGNER
Positions held:
1975 - 1978: Chairman of the Organizing Committe for the 7th World Congress of ILSMH,held in Vienna, Austria in September 1978. 1978 - 1990: Council Member and Treasurer of ILSMH 1992 - 1994: President-Elect of ILSMH 1994 - 1998: President of Inclusion International (formerly ILSMH)
Summary of Contributions:
As Treasurer he stabilized the fragile financial situation and built up a body of reserves. During the years 1990-1993 he established - in cooperation with the Canadian Association of Community Living (CACL) - the so-called "ILSMH Open Discussion Forum on New Bio-Ethical Issues", which resulted in the publication of three "Working Papers", namely
"Food for Thought on Genetic Counselling, Prenatal Diagnosis, Selective Abortion(June 1991)"
"Food for Thought on Withholding Treatment (Februaury 1992)"
"Food for Thought on Gene Technology and Bio-Ethics (June 1993)" The end-result was then a special publication by the Roeher Institute (Canada) together with ILSMH, called "JUST TECHNOLOGY"
In trying to solicit and include input from membership organizations, he replaced the former "committee structure" by so-called "Open Project Groups" (OPGs) where everybody who was willing could contribute to ten different topics and issues (e.g. Abuse, Inclusive Education and Employment,Quality Assurance, De-Institutionalization, Aging,Ethical Monitoring, Family Support, Parent Empowerment, Discrimination by Love).
He initiated the "name change" from ILSMH (International League of Societies for Persons with Mental Handicap) to "INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL" and then motivated membership to approve it.
In order to clarify the identity of our organization, he developped the four main Policy Directions: INCLUSION, SELF-DETERMINATION, FULL CITIZENSHIP, FAMILY SUPPORT.
The main focus during his Presidency was on "Inclusive Education". He managed to develop a clear position of Inclusion International on this important human rights issue and established Inclusion International as a strong advocate for including ALL pupils with intellectual disabilities into the regular school systems. Final outcome of this effort was - in cooperation with UNESCO - the publication of the brochure "THE JOURNEY TO INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS" (in English, Spanish, French and German; meanwhile further translations have been made by members, namely into Arabic). This publication will be a valid message for a long time to go.
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