In cooperation with the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL), DRD held a webinar focused on ‘Law for Accessibility’ on the 25th of November 2019. This report summarizes briefly the webinar. A recording of the webinar can also be watched on youtube.
ILI and the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) held a webinar to introduce the work of the Disability Rights Defenders Network. The webinar took place on 20 May 2019. This report summarizes the webinar shortly.
Dr. Adolf Ratzka, chair of the Swedish Association ”Law as a Tool for Social Change”
I am here in this panel as the chairperson of the Swedish member association Law as a Tool for Social Change (”Med lagen som verktyg”). Our mission is to raise awareness of our group’s human and civil rights, and to increase our capacity in defending these rights against businesses and government agencies - if necessary in court. Thus, in this panel, my perpective is from the grass-roots level.
CONFERENCE — May 30, 9 am — 5 pm
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Adolf Ratzka wins ULOBA's 2017 Pride Award at the annual ULOBA Pride Parade in Oslo on June 17. ULOBA's general director Vibeke Maröy Melström had this to say about the jury's decision
This year’s winner of the Pride Award has been one of Europe’s leading activists in the fight for equality for disabled people for nearly five centuries.
The award winner defines Independent Living as us having the rights, choices and control over our own lives which others often take for granted.
On 24 and 25 November 2016, the Law as a Tool for Social Change project arranged a conference and two seminars on how civil society, through strategic litigation, can counteract discrimination against people with disabilities and contribute to case law and the changing of legal norms.
Project name:
Disabled Refugees Welcome
- Application for funding granted by the Swedish Inheritance Fund for the project Disabled Refugees Welcome (page in english)
Projektets namn:
Disabled Refugees Welcome
Sammanfattning
Förstudien Med lagen som verktyg, som finansierades av Arvsfonden, konstaterade att människor med funktionsnedsättningar och deras organisationer borde ha bättre juridisk beredskap för att kunna bemöta den diskriminering som personer med funktionsnedsättningar utsätts för.
Det planerade projektet ska vara med och förbättra funktionsnedsatta människors livsvillkor genom att motarbeta negativ särbehandling med lagen som verktyg. Projektet ska
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What is the relationship of global health to global disability? Medicalizing the issue of disability may occlude the social and political aspects of disability. While the history of political thought and social contract theories are embarrassing in their neglect and treatment of disability, the history of the U.S. Civil Rights struggle offers some interesting parallels.
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