Exclusion in the Dutch Educational System
Lieke Scheewe November 08, 2009 The UNESCO Culture of Peace Program emphasizes that empowerment of marginalized voices is an essential part of peace building (Toh, 2007). The empowerment of the ‘disabled’ is only at the beginning of a long process toward inclusion. World-wide young people with disabilities, girls in particular, are still combating blatant educational exclusion (UNESCO, 2009a, p. 5). Of the 75 million children of primary school age who are out of school, one third are children with disabilities, thereby constituting the world’s largest and most disadvantaged minority (UNESCO, 2009b). While persons with disabilities

Big East Is a Big Loser in Web Accessibility for Disabled People, Study Says
By Marc Parry Denver – Big East colleges may shine on the basketball court, but they’re getting stuffed by the competition when it comes to the Web-accessibility battle.  The Big East posted the most consistent problems in a new survey of how good a job universities are doing in making their Web sites accessible to people with disabilities. The survey of 80 universities, presented at the Educause conference here this week, pitted five athletics conferences against one another in an attempt to draw attention to the issue.   The worst of the worst are Villanova University, Baylor University, and Providence College, says the study by Jon Gunderson, coordinator of as

There’s a revolution in Britain that hasn’t made it to America.
Disaboom When Danish IT specialist Thorkil Sonne found out his young son had autism, he decided to find out everything he could about the condition in a effort to make sure his child led as happy a life as possible.Turns out, the information led him on a crusade to change the way the world views people with autism.  Sonne, a 49-year-old father of three, started an IT company staffed almost exclusively by people with autism, and its success has power playe

From DNIS: “The reason we want a new law…”
Disabled rights activists from across the country were in New Delhi for the National Consultation on ‘The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Respect for Dignity, Effective Participation and Inclusive Opportunities) Act, 2010’, organised by N.C.P.E.D.P. The demand for a new law was unanimous.Dorodi Sharma of D.N.I.S. caught up with a few of them with the poser, “The reason I want a new law…” From vehement demands for a rights based Act to strong voices for accountability, the views were mixed but not different.

From DNIS: “No to Amendments,” is the writing on the wall!
While the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment continues to take an ostrich like attitude and push for Amendments to the Disability Act 1995, disabled rights activists from across the country were in Delhi on October 29 and 30 at the National Consultation on ‘The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Respect for Dignity, Effective Participation and Inclusive Opportunities) Act, 2010’ organised by N.C.P.E.D.P., to take their demand for a fresh new law forward. Dorodi Sharma of D.N.I.S. takes a look at it. Amendments to the Disability Act of 1995 have become like an urban legend in the disability sector. And why not? After all, from Maneka Gandhi