Disability Awareness in Action
The international disability & human rights
network
Issues
You can reach pages that deal with specific issues - often issues that
disability organisations are campaigning about - from this page.
The existing links are provided below, but please check this page
periodically, as the site is frequently updated.
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities- the United Nations has now begun work on developng an
international Convention on the Rights of Disabled People. This is a
matter of enormous importance to our movement. Our pages will provide
important background information, as well as keeping you informed of
developments.
- Human Rights -
four years ago DAA launched the first international database to record human
rights abuses against disabled people. Follow this link to find out about the
Project and how to support it.
- Biotechnology - 'the' issue for the
21st century? Find out more about biotechnology and what it might mean for
disabled people.
- Assisted Suicide/Voluntary
Euthanasia - there have been a number of recent high profile cases where
disabled people have sought to have assisted suicide legalised. DAA is
concerned that should such legislation be introduced, the threat to the lives
of disabled people will be greater than ever. We have produced a Briefing paper
that outlines the arguments for and against.
- Disability and Development –
development agencies have for many years failed to recognise the value of
involving disabled peoples' organisations in projects. Instead disabled people
have been treated as 'passive receivers of charity and aid'. This Briefing
paper looks at these issues and suggests solutions.
- Definitions of Disability
- a Briefing paper that looks at the many different definitions of disability
and why it is that a definition created by disabled people themselves is one
that should be adopted by all national and international agencies and
goverments
- Social model of disability - much
talked about, often misunderstood; an article on the social model of
disability.
- How to be an Ally- this is a guide for people
who wish to support rather than control any oppressed group of people. The
Guide was not written with disabled people in mind specifically, but the
message applied, in the same way, to our experience of being ignored or
excluded by those who claim to be acting as our 'supporters'.
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