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Dear Friends,
Information from university will arrive tomorrow or day after tomorrow.

Research Related to Women with Disabilities in Nepal and Elsewhere

If any of you are interested to read research related to Women with Disabilities in Nepal and else where please go to
Disability and Society
21(2) p.115; The lives of disabled women in Nepal: vulnerability without support: Maya Dhungana, Bishnu: Vol. 21(2) p.133; Feminist disability theory: ...www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Resources/ News/index.php?page=166&id=1836 - 13k -

Gender, Technology and Development
Bishnu Maya Dhungana: Book Review: Women, Disability and Identity Gender, Technology and Development 2004 8: 419-422. [PDF] ...gtd.sagepub.com/subscriptions/sample.dtl

The first research is based on my field work and second is book review of 13 articles written by different scholars.

If any of you would like to know about Gender Experienced of Disabiltiy, please let me know and I am happy to share what I have gained for last five years.

Currently I am conducting research on Self-Help Organizations of Women with Disabilities. If anybody would like to share how SHOs are working in your respective countries please do share your experiences. In my research, I look at three things which are interlinked: economic empowerment, social empowerment and psychological empowerment.

Email Address

This email address is given by Prof. Bengt. If you have time please go through it.

www.yorku.ca/drpi

Fifth Day of Training

The training we attend each day seems fantastic. Although today is fifth day of it everybody seems so active and learning more and more which is the most imporant. I hope each of us learn new thing each day that we may able to apply in our future career as well as our present work. The speakers are very good and energetic.

Human Rights and Disability Asia 2006

During 2006 two Sida International Training Programmes on Human Rights and Disability will be organised by SHIA. The first one will target Asian participants from the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, The Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. The course will be held at Almåsa conference centre between the 8th and 19th of May 2006. The closing date for applying is November 15th 2005.

The second course will target participants from the MENA region- Middle East and Northern Africa from the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen. The course will be held at Almåsa conference centre between the 4th and 15th of September 2006. The closing date for applying is March 15th 2006.

The programme aims at enhancing knowledge, develop methods and tools, and to provide a foundation for future networking and co-operation and will include:

• An overview of the existing Human Rights instruments and discussions on how these can be used to improve life conditions for persons with disabilities.
• An opportunity to exchange experiences and opinions concerning the drafting of the new UN “Convention on Disability” and the future role of the UN Standard Rules and the proposed additions.
• An analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies and other multilateral programmes and how disability aspects can be included. Methods and skills needed to influence these processes. Discussions around poverty and human rights from a disability perspective.
• Exchange of experience of how persons with disabilities and their organisations can increase their participation in the development of policies.
• Introduction to Swedish disability policy, legislation and social services, including study visits to relevant Swedish authorities, institutions and organisations.

Issues such as gender, children and hiv/aids in relation with persons with disabilities will be included within all topics.

The programme is targeting participants from regional or national DPOs, government agencies and NGOs working in the area of Human Rights and disability. Persons with disabilities have been especially encouraged to apply.

The programme organiser is SHIA - the Swedish Organisations’ of Disabled Persons International Aid Association.