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Disability Rights Defenders is a network of individuals and organizations with an interest in disability rights and disability law. Our purpose is to spread and deepen legal expertise about disability rights among disabled persons, disabled people’s organization, lawyers and law schools. We invite people interested in disability rights to join our closed facebook-group “Disability Rights Defenders” to share their experiences, methods and advice. Content shared in the facebook-group is summarized in a newsletter at least once a year. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.

 Together we spread information and knowledge on how to use the law as a tool to implement and defend the rights of disabled people. We welcome contributions in the form of brief descriptions of legal cases, court decisions, references to legislation, publications, reports as well as announcements of events, learning and funding opportunities.

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Disability Rights Defenders Newsletter November 2020

Sun, 2020-11-01 00:00 by selina

In this newsletter, we share court cases and resources with you and others with an interest in disability rights. We inform about webinars, news and job opportunities. This time we want to highlight our upcoming DRD Webinar on “Legal remedies through strategic litigation for the rights of disabled people” that we host together with the project “Article 19 As a Tool” and ENIL, the European Network on Independent Living on the 17th of November, 14.00 - 16.00 CET. We invite lawyers, law students, disability and human rights advocates, disabled people's organisations and all persons with an interest in strategic litigation to join the meeting. We look forward to a fruitful discussion!

  1. Court Cases
  2. Resources
  3. Webinars
  4. Surveys
  5. News
  6. Job opportunity
  7. Request for information

Disability Rights Defenders Newsletter July 2020

Sun, 2020-07-26 17:11 by selina

In this newsletter we collected important news and resources for you and others with an interest in disability rights. We share court cases and information about funding and training opportunities. Of course, there are also facts and news about disability inclusive responses in the current pandemic.

  1. Court Cases
  2. Participate and get active
  3. Funding and training opportunities
  4. Resources
  5. COVID-19
  6. Rewatch Webinars
  7. Employment and disability
  8. News from around the world
Independent Living Institute.  2020.  Survey Report on Remedies.

DRD conducted a survey on remedies in cooperation with the project Article 19 as a tool. The survey was carried out with the aim to gain an overview of the topic of remedies, to see where and what law systems in general are lacking or which remedies can be transferred from one country to another for better effectiveness in using the law as a tool for social change and individual justice. The following report sumarizes the results of the survey and provides an overview of some legal remedies to enable interested readers to learn from other countries' experiences as well as to gain knowledge about other types of remedies which might be more effective for ensuring protection and enforcement of rights.

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Guide: How to Webinar

DRD developed a guide on how to plan, organize and hold webinars. Webinars are a great opportunity to bring people together from all over the world to network, collaborate and discuss. Based on our experiences in organizing and holding webinars we created this timeline including all necessary steps to plan and hold a webinar. Different icons mark concrete tips and examples, steps where we recommend to pay attention and tips for more accessibility. We suggest going through your webinar plan with different ‘disability-glasses’ in order to identify and remove potential barriers for accessibility. Please feel free to download, use and share this guide with your colleagues and friends. 

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