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Resources on Children with Disabilities
*I. International Norms and Standards relating to children with disabilities
*II. Selected Reports and Publications
*III. Selected list of Academic Publications
*IV. Other resources on children with disabilities, children, and disabilities
*V. Selected Organizations related to Children with Disabilities, Children and Disabilities

Recursos en Español sobre niños con discapacidad


Seminario sobre los niños y niñas con discapacidad: Temas y tendencias en el desarrollo de políticas y programa en la Región de las Américas:
*Ayuda Memoria
*Documento de Base

Seminar on Children with Disabilities : Resources

II. Selected reports and publications

II. Selected reports and publications

A. Selected United Nations reports and publications

General Assembly reports

Recent United Nations reports on disability are available under "Parliamentary Documents" of the Persons with Disabilities home page http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disparl.htm

Implementation of the World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. Secretary-General report A/54/388 of 19 September 1999
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disa54e0.htm

Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons; Interim Report Secretary-General report E/CN.5/1995/5 of 5 January 1999
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disecne0.htm

Review and appraisal of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons. . Secretary-General report A/52/351 of 16 December 1997
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disrawp0.htm

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)

Fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Children's Rights: Creating a Culture of Human Rights Basic information kit no.3, March 1998
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/50th/50kit3.htm#TheViennaDeclaration-Rightsofthechild

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Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Reports

Report of the Regional Forum on Education for Children and Youth with Disabilities into the 21st Century, Economic and Social Commision for Asia and the Pacific, 1999
http://www.unescap.org/decade/edforumfinalreport.htm

Publications

The Hidden Sisters: Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Asian and the Pacific Region, 1998
http://www.unescap.org/decade.wwd.txt

Field Study-cum-Regional Seminar on Poverty Alleviation among Rural Persons with Disabilities, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India, 1999
http://www.unescap.org/decade/hydpovdistrpt.htm

Legislation on Equal Opportunties and Full Participation in Development for Disabled Persons: A Regional Review
http://www.unescap.org/decade/legis.html

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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Disability Prevention and Care and Protection of children with Disabilities
PD/SR/1999/1222 of 10 May 1999

The State of the World's Children 2000
http://www.unicef.org/sourc00

State of the World's Children 1999
Bellamy, Carrol.
http://www.unicef.org/sourc99

Human Rights for Children and Women
June 1999
http://www.unicef.org/human/humanrightseng.pdf

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International Labor Organization (ILO)

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
ILO-IPEC Highlights of 1998 (Geneva) October 1998
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/high-98/index.htm

Child Labor: targeting the Intolerable. August 1996
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/clrep96.htm

Analysis of the 1994 child labor force survey results
(Turkey) Dayiodln, M. 1994
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/turk94/index.htm

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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Rural children living in Farm Systems affected by HIV/Aids: Some issues for the Rights of the Child on the basis of FAO studies in Africa
Guerny, J., 1998
http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0026.htm

Special: Persons with Disabilities: Women
http://www.fao.org/sdppdirect'ppre0042.htm

Country experiences: Empowering the rural disabled people in rural areas of Laos, in Case Studies : Strategies for the rural disabled in Cambodia,
Hanko, J, 1998
http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/Ppdirect/Ppre0062.htm

Disabled People in Rural Areas of Vietnam,
Hanko, J., 1998
http://www.fao.org/waicet/sustdev/Ppdirect/Ppre0063.htm

Blind Disabled People and the Thai Rural Economy
Punong-ong, P. 1997
http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/Ppdirect/Ppre0040.htm

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Todos los Niños Pueden Aprender. El Programa de la 900 Escuelas para Sectores Pobres de Chile, 1993, Guttman, C.UNESCO, Paris

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Disability and Rehabilitation (DAR) Programme

A programme focused on global disability and rehabilitation issues in developing countries, committed to the principle of community-based rehabilitation and primary health care
http://wwwlive.who.ch/hpr/rhb/#rehabilitation

International classification of functioning and disability, 1999 (ICIDH-2).
www.who.int/icidh/index.htm

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World Bank

Latin America and the Caribbean

Argentina-Second maternal and child health and nutrition project, 04/27/1994 report 16419
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

Children's growth and poverty in rural Guatemala, 09/01/1999
Gragnolati, M..
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

Children of the poor in Latin-America and the Caribbean, 07/19/1996
Van de Gaag, J., Winkler, D.
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

Feeding Latin-America's Children, 01/01/1993
report number 14285
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

Female headed households, poverty, and the welfare of children in urban Brazil, 03/01/1994
Barros, R.F. & Mendonca, RL
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

Paraguay-Maternal health and child development project, 03/08/1996
report 8599
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

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Other regions

Philipines-Early childhood development project, 02/27/1998
report 17176
http://www-wds.worldbank.org
(available in Spanish)

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B. Other intergovernmental organizations

Organization of American States

The Canadian Association for Community Living. Disability in the Central American Region -Integration of Persons with Disabilities into the productive workforce. (Canada) 1997.

pg 8: List of organizations and associations for people with disabilities in Panama

pg.16: Examples of successful inclusion of people with disabilities in the Panama's labor market Commitment of the Inter-American Children's Institute in Issues affecting children and youth with disabilities , 1999
http://www.oas.org/assembly/eng/documents/iichildren.htm
(available in Spanish)

Report of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States on the activities of the Organization to implement the mandates of the Santiago Summit April 2000
http://www.summit-american.org/SIRG/XVIIISIRG/XVIII-SIRG-OASReport.htm
(available in Spanish)

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Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

Integrating services for children at risk, Denmark, France, Sweden,UK; 1999
Legislation on the rehabilitation of people with disabilities, Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities

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C. National and regional reports on the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons

The following resource materials on the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Person were received by the programme on disability of United Nations Secretariat from national Governments and United Nations Regional Commissions. The information provided the basis for analysis of the data included in Secretary-General report A/54/388 of 19 September 1999.

Latin America and Caribbean

Argentina: Information about the program of action for the disabled
Government of the Republic of Argentina

Honduras: Information about the implementation about the program of action for the disabled persons government of the Republic of Honduras

Mexico: Aplicación del Programa de Accion Mundia para los Impedidos: Hacia una sociedad para todos en el siglo XXI.
Government of Mexico

Trinidad and Tobago: Summary of initiatives related to equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities
Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Uruguay: Igualdad de oportunidad de las personas con discapacidad
Government of Uruguay

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Asia and the Pacific

China: The implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons in China.
Government of the People's Republic of China

Georgia: Report on Matters of Disabled people in Georgia.
Government of Georgia

Japan: Annual Report on Government measures for Persons with Disabilities
Government of Japan

Mongolia: Actions on disability.
Government of Mongolia

Philippines: Action of the Philippine Government to promote access of persons with disability to information on social services
Government of Philippines

Singapore: Singapore's social policy towards the disabled
Government of Singapore

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Europe

Austria: Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning disabled persons: Towards a society for all in the 21st Century
Government of Austria

Cyprus: Report of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus on the World
Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: Towards a society for all in the 21st Century
Government of the Republic of Cyprus

Finland: Reply to the request of the Secretariat of the United Nations to provide information on the implementation of resolution 52/82 of the General Assembly
Government of Finland

Germany: Information on activities in the Federal Republic of Germany related to General Assembly resolution 52/82
Government of the Federal Republic of Germany

Greece: Report of Greece on activities related to United Nations General Assembly resolution 52/82 entitled Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning disabled persons Government of Greece

Italy: Innovative policies and good practices implemented in Italy on equal opportunity for an integration of persons with disability
Government of Italy

Malta: Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning disabled persons
Government of Malta

Norway: Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning disabled persons
Government of Norway

Spain: España Programa de Acción Mundial para las Personas con Discapacidad: Pricipales realizaciones en al perodo 1997-2000
Government of Spain, July 1999

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United Nations Regional Commissions

Economic Commission for Africa

ECA-SEA: Summary on Activities in Disability Field, May 1999

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

ESCAP- activities in support of General Assembly resolution 52/82 on the

"Implementation of the World Programme of Action; Towards a Society for all in the 21. Century"; Summary Report; 29 June 1999

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Lebanon: Summary on Activities in the Disability Field, 1999

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