The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) was established by the British Labour government in 1999. At that time, the DRC was the UK's third equality commission...
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The disability rights movement is a global social movement that seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities. It...
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Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth) Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth) (formerly Human Rights and...
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This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United States of America, including court...
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S. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act...
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Human Rights Commission). It took over the responsibilities of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Disability Rights...
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apply): The Disability Rights Commission Act 1999, which replaced the National Disability Council with the Disability Rights Commission (DRC); The Special...
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Human Rights Commission of India (abbreviated as NHRC) is a statutory body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance...
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Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (category British disability rights activists)
British disability rights campaigner and a life peer in the House of Lords. She was Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and...
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Parent Attorneys and Advocates Disability Rights Commission Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (1979) Disability Rights UK Disabled American Veterans...
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Disability rights are not specifically addressed by legislation in New Zealand. Instead, disability rights are addressed through human rights legislation...
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Social model of disability. UK Disability Rights Commission: The Social Model of Disability. Accessed 2009-10-15. Article on Disability Perspectives and...
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A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally...
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This disability rights timeline lists events outside the United States relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities, including court decisions...
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Accessibility (redirect from Physical-disability access)
ISBN 9781444348163. Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Code of Practice; Employment and Occupation. Disability Rights Commission. 2004. p. 5. ISBN 9780117034198...
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA (42 U.S.C. § 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar...
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Representative Caucus, a group of Canadian Members of Parliament Disability Rights Commission, a body set up by the British Parliament Dynamics Research Corporation...
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to blind users. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) also published World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory...
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individual. A disability may be readily visible, or invisible in nature. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defines disability...
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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets two times a year in Geneva to consider the...
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Productivity Commission, published 14 July 2004. Australian Government Disability Policy, Programs and Legislation Australian Human Rights Commission guide to...
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages – Spanish, French, and Portuguese – CIDH, Comisión Interamericana...
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Julie Fernandez (category English people with disabilities)
parents. Fernandez is a disability rights activist in the United Kingdom and has supported campaigns for the Disability Rights Commission and Scope. She set...
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orientation, disability, creed, age and other grounds. The code is administered by the Ontario Human Rights Commission and enforced by the Human Rights Tribunal...
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disability or mental disability".: 125 Japan ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on 20 January 2014...
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George H. W. Bush, the act prohibits discrimination based on disability. The U.S DOJ Civil Rights Division phrases the right to access to the polls, as well...
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the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) Health Information Plus Website -...
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The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is a quasi-judicial body tasked with promoting and protecting human rights and collective (peoples')...
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Ableism (redirect from Disability discrimination)
disability". Ontario Human Rights Commission. Retrieved 26 August 2018. Tutton, Michael (4 June 2018). "'Ableist' bias left people with disabilities without...
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a disability). Instead of introducing litigation in court, victims of such a violation may file a complaint with the Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission...
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