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Access denied: human rights and disabled people
- Authors:
- FOLEY Conor, PRATT Sue
- Publisher:
- Liberty
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the governments attitude towards civil rights for disabled people, at international law, and at discrimination against disabled people. Makes comparisons with the situation in Europe and in the United States.
Disabled people, manual handling and human rights
- Author:
- MANDELSTAM Michael
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66(11), November 2003, pp.528-560.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Discusses the implications of a recent manual handling legal case in East Sussex (A&B v East Sussex County Council 2003), which centres on how disabled people's needs, rights and wishes should be balanced with employee safety in the context of community care.
Human rights, development and disability
- Author:
- WALSH Patricia Noonan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(3), September 2003, pp.110-112.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents current thinking on what human rights are and their particular importance for people with learning or other disabilities. Charts the emergence of a rights-based approach to disability. Reviews the potential impact of various United Nations' instruments on disability issues and suggests an agenda for advancing inclusive societies where human rights apply to all citizens.
Whose life is it anyway?
- Author:
- DOWSON Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.07.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There is apparently little concern about the possible impact of the new genetic sciences on the shape of humankind. The public may have qualms about some developments, such as human cloning, but the prospect of using the new knowledge to eradicate inherited illness and impairment is apparently welcomed without qualification. Some disability organisations, however, are expressing deep concern about where the science is leading us. Those people who most loudly defend the rights of disabled people are likely to base their position on a broader framework of human rights - a framework that will make them equally vehement in support of "a woman's right to choose".
Women with disabilities: the long road to equality
- Author:
- FAIRCHILD Sherry R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 6(2), 2002, pp.13-28.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Due to the double discrimination of gender and disability status, women with disabilities confront major obstacles to achieve equality and full participation in society. This American article examines some of the current meanings of disability and current discriminatory practices in specific areas for women with disabilities such as human rights and abuse, relationships and sexual functioning, health issues, employment and environment barriers. Identifies areas for social workers to become involved at both the macro and micro levels of practice.
Commission seeks to add to its remit
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.9.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The fledgling Disability Rights Commission is already scoring victories for disabled people, but it wants to use the Human Rights Act to go further.
The law, rights and disability
- Editor:
- COOPER Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 317p.,bibliog.s
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on: working in partnership with disabled people; changing attitudes to the rights of people; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through international law; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through domestic law; the legal regulation of the powers and duties of local authorities with regard to disabled people; the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; disability, housing and homelessness; disability and mental health law; disabled children; and messages from disability research for law, policy and practice.
Prenatal testing and disability rights
- Editors:
- PARENS Erik, ASCH Adrienne
- Publisher:
- Georgetown University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 387p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care. However, prenatal tests have been critised by the disability rights community as they are used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with a disability. Arguably, such tests reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities. This collection of papers by health care professionals, academics and members of the disability community debate the implications of prenatal testing for disabled people and for parent child relationships generally.
Out of services: a survey of local service provision for elderly and disabled people in England
- Authors:
- FRAZER Rosemary, GLICK Georgia
- Publisher:
- Needs Must
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Needs Must is a coalition of more than thirty organisations campaigning to restore people's rights to community care. This research report presents findings from a study of changes to the services people receive since the Gloucestershire judgement in March 1997.
Invalids and society
- Author:
- ZOVKO Gojko
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 6(2), 1999,
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
This article deals with the social issue of invalids in Croatia. Possible directions for activities are given which may be aimed at social policy and social welfare directed towards creating a society of pluralistic democracy and human rights and a society for all its members, in which social justice will reign and there will be social benefits for all.