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Enabling rights
- Author:
- SIMS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 1.6.04, 2004, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
With a new draft Disability Discrimination Bill published last December and on its way to parliament, examines the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Civil Rights (Disabled Persons)(Northern Ireland) Bill
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disabled women in Northern Ireland: situation, experiences and identity
- Author:
- EQUALITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
- Publisher:
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 34p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The primary aim of the research was to sketch a profile of the multiple identity group, disabled women; in simple terms, to answer the question 'How do people in this group define themselves?’ The focus is to consider how people understand and perceive their identity.
Enabled?: recommendations for change to the Disability Discrimination Act in Northern Ireland
- Author:
- EQUALITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
- Publisher:
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 77p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Legislation alone cannot create equality or change attitudes, but it can set clear standards of behaviour and provide redress for individuals who have met injustice and prejudice at the hands of others. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 acknowledged in law the existence of discrimination on grounds of disability and the need for legal remedies to counter it. This was in marked contrast to earlier official views that any disadvantage experienced by disabled people was a natural result of their particular impairments, rather than the practice of discrimination. In Northern Ireland, work is underway to develop single equality legislation, and these recommendations for change to the DDA are consistent with the objective of seeking harmonised anti discrimination legislation, which gives full and effective protection of the civil rights of all protected groups.