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June 10

World Report On Disability. WHO

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The World Report on Disability, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, with contributions from over 380 experts, calls for the elimination of barriers that often force the people with disabilities to “the margins of society".

The report notes that more than one billion people worldwide experience some form of disability and urges governments to “to step up efforts to enable access to mainstream services and to invest in specialized programmes to unlock the vast potential of people with disabilities” (full report, pdf). UN Pulse: Permanent Link: World Report on Disability

September 11

Forced Evictions And Disability Rights In Africa

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Forced evictions and disability rights in Africa
Online article looking at forced evictions and disability rights in Africa written by Buhle Angelo Dube who is a lecturer at the University of Swaziland's Law Department. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The first section explains the background to forced evictions and their impact in Africa and focuses on this practice in Ghana, Swaziland and Botswana. The author also looks at the legal remedies available focusing on instruments such as the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The second section looks at disability rights in Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Kenya, Namibia and Ghana. The final section considers the links between forced evictions and disability rights. There is a bibliography of books, articles, reports, cases and relevant websites. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Forced_Evictions_Disability_Rights_Africa.h

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