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Christopher M. Bell (1974 – December 25, 2009) was a disability studies scholar working in the area of HIV/AIDS, race and ethnicity.He was the former president of the Society for Disability Studies and contributed to national discussions about race, ethnicity and disability studies.
1981 - YAI hosted its first International Conference at UN headquarters; 2,000 people from 30 countries attended. 2009 - YAI won a major legal victory that affirmed the right of people with disabilities to live in dignity and stay in their communities. 2016 - YAI selected to implement mental health crisis prevention through NY START.
Disability rights advocates Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and Evan Kemp Jr. (of the Disability Rights Center) led an intense lobbying and grassroots campaign that generated more than 40,000 cards and letters. After three years, the Reagan Administration abandoned its attempts to revoke or amend the ...
Oct. 17—State officials are hosting a Disability Employment Awareness Month Conference on Thursday, a full-day event that will feature a host of speakers focused on raising awareness and ...
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, like the other United Nations human rights conventions, (such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) resulted from decades of activity during which group rights standards developed from aspirations to binding treaties.
The organization was founded in 1982 first as the Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability (SSCIID), and renamed Society for Disability Studies in 1986. [4] Its founders are Daryl Evans, Nora Groce, Steve Hey, Gary Kiger, John Seidel, Jessica Scheer and Irving Kenneth Zola (1935–1994). [ 4 ]
At the conference there is the annual NUS Disabled Students Awards, which started in 2007, to help promote and support the societies which have done things that are considered to be above and beyond the standard. Officers and committee members are elected at the annual conference by delegates.
Bush, George H. W., Remarks of President George Bush at the Signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Available online at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Davis, Lennard J. Enabling Acts. The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2015.