Disability
Disability: Racism Review
Disabilties are physical or mental impairments that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of a person, or a record of such impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment.
In the last 100 years discrimination against the disabled has ranged from the Nazi's effort to wipe out disabilties through murder and sterilisation to modern hate crimes on the internet.
Discrimination against people with disabilties was addressed in the Declaration at WCAR so is on the agenda for the Durban Review Conference.
Articles on discrimination against people with disabilities
- Questions and Answers
An introduction to the topic of discrimination against people with disabilities through short questions and answers - Defining disability
A look at different definitions of disabilty and where some fall short. - Categories of Disability
The five catagories of disabilities explained. - Online disability discrimination
A look at discrimination against people with disabilities on the internet. - Disability discrimination today
Where we as a society stand today, a look at some recent incidents and information. - Bruce Maguire, Telecommunications access and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Australian Human Rights Commission, 16 February 2009.
- Hannah Jacobs, Public blindness to discrimination against those with disabilities
Recent statements by public figures, including President Obama, highlight the casual discrimination against people with disabilities in todays society. - Nazi persecution of the disabled: Murder of the Unfit
Nazi persecution of persons with disabilities began with forced sterilization and escalated toward mass murder. The Euthanasia Program was in itself a rehearsal for Nazi Germany's broader genocidal policies. [External link]
Websites on discrimination against people with disabilities
- United Nations Enable
Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
