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For Inclusion International a human rights approach requires inclusive approaches to public policy and programming.

The disability rights debate is not about the enjoyment of specific rights. Rather, it is about ensuring the equal effective enjoyment of all human rights, without discrimination, by people with disabilities.

This section will provide documents and resources that will inform and contribute to the discourse on disability and human rights.

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GLOBAL SURVEY on Government Action on the Implementation of the Standard Rules for the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

[Last updated Tuesday, February 20, 2007]

Results of the Global Survey on Government Action on the Implementation of the Standard Rules for the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. The Report was launched on January 30, 2007 in Doha, Qatar at a Press Conference organized by the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Disability and in the presence of the members of the Panel of Experts. We would like to urge all those receiving this document to distribute it as widely as possible.

Global Sruvery report

To read staement made by Robert at the Panel of Experts meeting in Qatar click here

The Organization of American States has declared 2006-2016 as the Decade of the Americas for Persons with Disabilities.

[Last updated Friday, December 15, 2006]

The OAS Decade provides an extraordinary opportunity to advance equality, inclusion, democratic participation and social solidarity for people with disabilities in the Americas.

The Decade is being launched at a time when the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is about to be adopted. As well, Inclusion International has just released a global report on poverty and disability drawing in part on a study we conducted in the Americas and that calls for global action to combat poverty and exclusion. Motivated also by the OAS mandate to proactively promote inclusive democratic development in the region, we believe a framework for the OAS Decade is needed that focuses on three main objectives:

Strengthen capacity of member states to develop and implement national plans to implement the UN Convention and to combat poverty.

Strengthen capacity of civil society organizations of people with disabilities and their families to promote and implement the Convention and combat poverty as a means to inclusive democratic development.

Strengthen capacity of OAS institutions to advance implementation of the UN Convention in the region, to combat poverty and to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in democratic development.

Download the paper submitted to the OAS by IIA ( ONLY IN SPANISH)

Declaration of Montreal on Intellectual Disability - 6 October 2004

[Last updated Friday, June 17, 2005]

Persons with intellectual and other disabilities, families, representatives of persons
with intellectual disabilities, intellectual disability specialists, health specialists and
other specialists from the disability field, State representatives, services providers
and managers, advocates, legislators and lawyers, assembled at the PAHO/WHO International Conference on Intellectual Disability, held in Montreal on October 5th and 6th 2004, together signed the following declaration:

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Local Voices, Global Picture

[Last updated Thursday, June 16, 2005]

By: Diane Richler

Tapping the Knowledge of NGOs for Data Collection & Analysis

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From Disability to Inclusion to Peace

[Last updated Tuesday, June 14, 2005]

By: Connie Laurin-Bowie

A Strategic Framework to Advance the Human Rights of People who have a Disability.

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Disability, Development and Inclusion in International Development Cooperation: A Scan of Disability-Related Policies and Research at Selected Multilateral and Bilateral Institutions

[Last updated Monday, June 13, 2005]

Since the end of the Decade of Disabled Persons (1983-1992), the drive to include people with disabilities into development efforts has gained momentum with the popularization of a social inclusion lens for designing poverty reduction strategies. In so doing many international agencies have developed research and/or policies that not only promote a commitment to social inclusion in general but target the inclusion of marginalized groups including people with disabilities more specifically.

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