Press Releases
Inclusion International Says UNESCO’s Education for All Monitoring Report is Cause for Concern
London (October 16, 2012)
UNESCO released the tenth Education for All Global Monitoring Report, Putting Education to Work, and Inclusion International says the report is a cause for concern. Although the report recognizes that young people with disabilities have particular difficulty gaining access to both education and work, ensuring their inclusion in education is not listed as a priority… read more
Inclusion International’s consultant for Africa Mr. Shikuku Obosi will be one of the torchbearers during the London 2012 Paralympic Torch Relay.
This honour has been bestowed on Shikuku because he is one of the Trustees of AbleChildAfrica. AbleChildAfrica works in East and Southern Africa and specialises exclusively in advocating for and supporting disabled children and disabled young people in Africa, support partner organisations to carry out life changing work with disabled children and disabled young people and work alongside them to use their experiences and learning to campaign for more widespread change in attitudes and practice. They currently work with 5 local partner organisations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania…read more.
INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTES THE VOICE OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO THE WHO WORLD REPORT ON DISABILITY
June 9, 2011 (London) – The WHO today released the World Report on Disability. Inclusion International (II), a federation of 200 family-based organizations advocating for the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities worldwide, contributed to this important report to ensure that the voices and perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities were heard and included..full press release
UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Education for All on the impact of Armed Conflict Ignores Children with Disabilities
(London, UK, March, 2011) UNESCO’s annual Global Monitoring Report on Education for All, “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education”, released March 1st, warns that “conflict continues to blight the lives of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Warfare is also destroying opportunities for education on a scale that is insufficiently recognized. Over 40% of out-of-school children live in conflict-affected countries.”… read more
This Human Rights Day, IDA calls on the UN, State and civil society actors to speak up to stop discrimination against the human rights of persons with disabilities.
10 December, 2010-Human Rights Day: Speak Up Stop Discrimination
Human Rights Day celebrates the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the first human rights instrument to be adopted on an international scale. Despite its universal intention, the UDHR makes explicit mention of disability only once, in the context of health and social protection. This inadequate regard for disability rights reflected the prevailing notion that disability fell within the domain of medicine, rehabilitation and welfare….read more
Inclusion International Launches Campaign to Promote the Right to Live in the Community to Mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3, 2010 (London) Inclusion International (II), with its member organizations in over 115 countries, is launching a campaign to promote Article 19 of the CRPD, Living in the Community. Article 19 ensures that people with disabilities have the right to live in the community with the supports they require, with equal access to community services such as education, health care, transportation, etc. This commitment has significant implications for governments, communities and service providers. It requires that we collectively address the current reality of the lives of people with disabilities who live in situations of isolation, segregation, confinement and dependence, whether in an institution or in “institutionalized” living conditions…read more
Inclusion International Demands Apology and Compensation from TACA Airlines for Human Rights Violation
15th Nov, 2010
At a recent regional meeting of Inclusion Internationaland Inclusion Interamericana in Bogotá, Colombia to promote the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities one of the participants, Juan Cobeñas, from Argentina, was prevented from attending the meeting because the airline TACA he and his family were travelling with lost part of his wheelchair….read more
Croatia: Locked Up, Limited Lives
By Human Rights Watch
People With Intellectual and Mental Disabilities Segregated Despite Government Promises
(Zagreb, September 23, 2010) – Thousands of people in Croatia with intellectual or mental disabilities are forced to live in institutions that strip them of their privacy, autonomy, and dignity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 74-page report, “‘Once You Enter, You Never Leave’: Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities in Croatia,” documents the plight of the more than 9,000 persons with intellectual or mental disabilities living in institutions and the lack of community-based programs for housing and support…read more
Senada Halilcevic Calls on the UN and Governments to Make the Right to Live in the Community a Reality. September 2, 2010 (New York)
Ms. Senada Halilcevic, a self-advocate and representative of Inclusion Europe and Inclusion International addressed the Third Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations headquarters in New York today. She spoke about her experience of living in a institution in Croatia. Her presentation drew praise from the gathering of over 300 representatives of governments, multi-lateral institutions and civil society…read more (Word doc)
Election of Twelve Committee Members of CRPD Committee at 3rd Conference of States Parties, 1 September 2010
United Nations, NY – The States Parties to the CRPD opened the Third Conference of States Parties (COP) by electing twelve CRPD Committee members today. Each candidate had to be presented by a country that is a State Party to the Convention. The CRPD Committee is now expanding from twelve to eighteen members in accordance with the Convention, which says that after sixty ratifications additional to the first twenty, the CRPD Committee will expand from twelve to eighteen members…read more (Word doc)
Klaus Lachwitz elected the new President of Inclusion International
Inclusion International is pleased to announce that Klaus Lachwitz has been elected President for the next 4 years. While in Berlin for II’s 15th World Congress in June, the General Assembly elected Klaus, a human rights lawyer and activities for people with intellectual disabilities to take over presidency of Inclusion International from Diane Richler, who will remain on the Council as Past President for two years…Read More
Inclusion International Congratulates Gordon Porter on his Appointment to the Order of Canada
On Wednesday, June 30th, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced the appointment of Dr. Gordon Porter, former chair of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission and Director of Inclusive Education Initiatives with the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), as a member of the Order of Canada…Read more
Report to Steering Committee
By Diane Richler
Yesterday, on behalf of IDA, I attended the Realizing Rights/Amnesty International seminar Human Rights: Foundation for Progress on the MDGs held at the Ford Foundation in New York. This was a meeting of about 100 people chaired by Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and currently President of Realizing Rights. Amnesty International has traditionally not been involved in development issues, but their incoming Secretary General, Salil Shetty currently is Director of the UN Millennium Campaign and clearly they will paying more attention to development issues in the future.Read More
UNESCO Global Monitoring Report says Inclusive Education Key to Education for All
(London, UK, September 19, 2010)
UNESCO’s annual Global Monitoring Report on Education for All, “Reaching the Marginalized”, released today, warns that the global economic downturn risks creating a generation of children whose lives have been irreparably damaged by being denied their right to education and identifies children with disabilities as amongst the most vulnerable. “The key message to emerge is that failure to place inclusive education at the centre of the EFA agenda is holding back progress”… Read More
Inclusion International marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities by calling for Inclusive Education for All
(London, UK, December 3, 2009)
On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Inclusion International is calling on governments, organizations, educators and families to address the current exclusion of children with disabilities from school.
A Global Report on Inclusive Education – “Better Education for All: When We’re Included Too”, which was released at a conference on inclusive education in Salamanca, Spain, October 21-23, 2009, identified significant barriers preventing children with disabilities from attending school. Of the 77 million children who are not in school at least 1/3 of them have a disability (UNESCO, 2006). Reasons for this include negative attitudes towards children with disabilities and a lack of information on inclusive education... Read More
CALL FOR ACTION- DEC 3 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
(December 3, 2009)
This International Day of Persons with Disabilities represents one of many efforts focused on the inclusion of all persons, including those with disabilities, to receive a quality education. Quality inclusive education is a human right, as proclaimed in Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and international cooperation is necessary to make this a reality… Read More
RE-INCLUSION OF ATHLETES WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN THE PARALYMPIC GAMES
(21 November, 2009)
For the last few years Mencap, our member national organisation in the UK, has been leading a campaign for the re-inclusion of athletes with intellectual disability in the Paralympics with full support from Inclusion International… Read More
