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Invitation To Dance: A Documentary Film By Simi Linton & Christian Von...
INVITATION TO DANCE BLOG | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | EMAIL | PRESS INQUIRIESApril 5, 2013Dear Samuel, We are excited to announce the launch of the website and social media campaign for...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Victorian Body Parts
http://victorianbodyparts.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/Call for Papers: Victorian Body PartsSt Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell, United Kingdom Saturday 14th September 2013The Victorian...
View ArticleNew issue of Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies:Volume 7, Issue 1JLCDS is available from Liverpool University Press, online and in print, to institutional and individual subscribers; it is also...
View ArticleOxford DERN Disability Symposium 2013
The 2013 Oxford Disability Equality Research Network Symposiumbrings together United Kingdom and international theorists andresearchers to highlight current work on disability in society in theareas of...
View ArticleBBC Radio 4 To Reveal 'Untold History of Disability' in 10-part-series
Link: http://is.gd/LExBUnIn a new ten-part radio series, journalist Peter White uncovers new historical sources revealing what life was like for those with physical disabilities in the 18th and 19th...
View ArticleENABLE NEWSLETTER May 2013
The United Nations Enable Newsletter is prepared by the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (DSPD/DESA) with input from UN offices, agencies, funds and programmes,...
View ArticleI need to hear from NGOs and sick and disabled individuals willing to act as...
Please circulate this widely in Britain.I recently contacted a human rights solicitor at Leigh Day regarding the submission of a United Nations complaint (UNCRPD) or inquiry into Britain's draconian...
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Fwd: Response to Freedom of Information Requests - Reference: FOI753
Date: June 24, 2013From: Ian JonesAll,I have received a second response from the EHCR (the response to my first FOI was is will cost too much) on implementation of the UNCRPD into UK law.I plan to go...
View ArticleMy Latest Letter To Iain Duncan Smith
The Right Honourable Iain Duncan SmithSecretary of State for Work and PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsCaxton HouseTothill StreetLondon, ENGLANDSW1H 9DASubject: What is the DWP's policy with...
View ArticleRequesting that the DWP hire an epidemiologist and consult with David...
The RightHonourableIainDuncan SmithSecretary of State for Work and PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsCaxton HouseTothill StreetLondon, ENGLANDSW1H 9DADear Mr. Smith,Further to my letter of June...
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My Letter To U.K.'s Joint Committee On Human Rights
Joint Committee on Human Rights Committee Office House of Commons 7 Millbank London SW1P 3JA Dear Sir or Madam,I am a 56-year-old Disability Studies specialist from Montreal, Canada who has been...
View ArticleIain Duncan Smith doesn't give a damn about the rights of sick and disabled...
Bedroom Tax minister Lord Freud has threatened councils if they reclassify homes. Yet I have written to work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith on two occasions, requesting that disabled people...
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RE: Will the Joint Committee on Human Rights legislatively scrutinize HM...
Dear Mr Miller,The Joint Committee at present has no plans to conduct an inquiry into the human rights aspects of the Spending Review. It is aware of some of the human rights issues raised by this...
View ArticleI have found an individual willing to act as "victim" in a UN inquiry and/or...
I have found an individual willing to act as "victim" in a UN inquiry and/or complaint against Britain, and have forwarded his correspondence with me to a human rights solicitor at Leigh Day,...
View ArticleAtos Assessment Appointment Room Wait Causes Claimant Unbearable Suffering
Since January 2012, I have been reporting frequently and voluntarily to senior UN officials on the crisis for U.K.'s sick and disabled. I therefore receive many e-mails from benefit claimants...
View Article[UK] AN URGENT MESSAGE July 10: Critically Important debate and vote...
Could you all contact your MPs about this and use it as a template adapting it as you think fit. (For further information, please read...
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Countdown to COSP6 CRPD, 17-19 July 2013
ENABLE DAILY BULLETIN FROM THE CONFERENCESixth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 17-19 July 2013, UN Headquarters (Webcast and...
View ArticleHuman Rights Essay Award 2014
This annual competition sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights andHumanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law seeksto stimulate the production of scholarly work in international...
View ArticleTransablism in the Reverse?
An article I wrote, titled "transablism in the Reverse" was recently published on Transabled.org.In the article, I explore how the concept of transness can apply to disability, and I describe the...
View ArticleRe-Membering: Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain...
I wanted to announce the publication of my memoir, Re-Membering: PuttingMind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Here is adescription:Re-membering is a memoir about being...
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