The Equal Opportunity Cell of Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, is organizing ‘INITATIVE’ one day event to inspire and sensitize stakeholders by sharing experience and knowledge with eminent speakers. The event is on 22^nd March from 9.30 am to 4 pm and being convened by Dr Jyoti Dhawan. Here is the program schedule.

The aim of the day is to raise awareness and understanding about Down syndrome, and to promote the inherent rights of persons with Down syndrome to enjoy full and dignified lives and be active and valuable pa...

I earlier appealed on Feburary 20 to Hon’able Chief Commissioner of Disabilities to take suo-moto cognisance of Miss Jeeja Ghosh’s matter. Today I got a favourable response from CCPD:

From: O/o CCPD ccpd@nic.in via nic.in
To: Dr Satendra Singh <dr.satendra@gmail.com>                                                                                    Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:30 AM

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From: Dr Satendra Singh <dr.satendra@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Subject: Appeal to take suo motice notice of offloading of person with Cerebral Palsy from Spice Jet flight
To: ccpd@nic.in, min-sje@sb.nic.in, cvo.dgca@nic.in
Cc: AppellateAuthority@spicejet.com, ssei@vsnl.com

To

Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities 

O/o CCPD, Min. of Social Justice & Empowerment 

(Kind attention: Sh. Pras...

The top US health official administered polio vaccination drops to children in New Delhi on Friday as India marked one year since its last case of the crippling disease.

The milestone is a major victory in the global effort to eradicate polio. If no previously undisclosed cases are uncovered in the coming weeks, India will be removed from the list of endemic countries, leaving only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius marked the day by ...

Perspectives 2 submissions now open!

 

The editors of Perspectives: Poetry Concerning Autism and Other Disabilities have announced their latest project. Perspectives 2 will be the second anthology of the Perspectives series.

Released late in 2010, Perspectives is an anthology of poetry about various neurological, psychological, social, and communicative disabilities, with a strong focus on the autism spectrum. It included poetry written by the disabled, their friends, their loved ones, servi...

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. There were 82 signatories to the Convention, 44 signatories to the Optional Protocol, and 1 ratification of the Convention. 

The Convention is intended as a human rights instrument with an explicit, social development dimension. It adopts a broad categorization of persons with disa...