Mauritius reservations to the CRPD and its impact on rights of persons with disabilities
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Reference: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?mtdsg_no=IV-15&chapter=4&lang=en#EndDec It was recently I had an opportunity to visit Mauritius and interact with the warm people there. My interaction was mostly with people with disabilities ands their organizations. There struggles and challenges seemed to be the same as ours and their advocacy movement had familiar traits. I for one felt very at home and one with them. It was during our discussions while preparing a stakeholders report from the Universal Periodic Review of Mauritius did we realise that Mauritius while rat ..read more
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The Universal Periodic Review and Disability– an Indian experience
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2y ago
Introductions The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new and unique mechanism of the United Nations, which was created in March 2006.   Currently, no other universal mechanism of this kind exists. The UPR is an automatic process of peer reviews the human rights practices of all 192 UN member states in the world, once every four years. The UPR is a significant innovation as it is is based on equal treatment for all countries.                            ..read more
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Living Independently and being included in the community
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2y ago
Living Independently and being included in the community  In my first reading of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2012, I was very glad to see it being included under the heading ‘Right to Live in the Community’ the words used in this section are very similar to what the CRPD says making it even better. Until yesterday when I was sitting and reading the Bill along with colleagues when we together looked at it trying to understand it more deeply and understand the changes it would bring to lives of disabled people. The Bill recognizes the right of all persons with disabiliti ..read more
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“Blatant violations of rights of passengers- meeting”
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2y ago
It was yesterday that I was retuning from Delhi to Hyderabad after attending a meeting chaired by the Joint Secretary Civil Aviation. The title of the meeting was “Blatant violations of rights of passengers- meeting” and the real agenda of the meeting is unknown to me but I believe after having attended it, that the agenda was to give patient one hour fifteen hearing to the disabled people to somewhere pacify the anger in the sector regarding denying air travel to Jeeja Ghosh very recently. I came out of the meeting jubilated that we were heard. I must say did boost my hopes for a short ..read more
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Impact on Airlines of the DGCA CAR Section - 3, Series - M, Part – 1
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2y ago
Civil Aviation Requirements on Carriage of disabled passengers - Its rightful Impact on the airlines NON DISCRIMINATION Airlines can NOT ·       Refuse to carry unescorted disabled passengers or their mobility aids and devices, even if they do not hold any disability certificate. ·       Require Medical clearance or special indemnity forms from persons with disabilities. ·       Require a disabled passenger to provide additional information once the ticket has been confirmed. In case of online booking ..read more
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Indian Railways for the disabled
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2y ago
It was going to be a train trip for me soon after a long time. I was traveling to Puttaparthi by Karnataka Express for darashan of Sri Satya Sai Baba along with my father who is a staunch devotee.  For a number of people train travels were something to look forward to and enjoyable. In fact they were enjoyable for me to till I became severely disabled having to use a wheelchair. Since I became disabled I tried to avoid train travels as much as possible but considering that it was the most affordable means of travel I was forced to use it on occasions. My father made the bookings well in ..read more
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Chiang Mai, Thailand in a wheelchair
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2y ago
I can describe Chiang Mai as a land of steep ramps. With steep ramps one may think that ravelling on a motorised wheelchair would be ideal, but mind you that public transport (tuk-tuk and songthaew) is not accessible and one needs to use regular saloon taxis to get around where carrying a motorised wheelchair may be a challenge.  Having said that there are a lot of very steep ramps and one would need constant assistance to negotiate them, I must add that the local Thai people are very helpful. I stayed at the hotel Furama. The concept of an accessible guest room was new to them and the ..read more
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Reservation without Accessibility?
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2y ago
How effective is inviting people with hearing impairments to a conference and not providing sign language interpreters or inviting people with vision impairments and not providing them with braille material. On a similar account how good is reservation for disabled people without simultaneously providing accessibility. There is a much needed 3% reservation in educational institutes for disabled students but the benefit this reservation is yielding is not as overwhelming as it should be as the campuses remain inaccessible. Take for example the Delhi University has 1600 seats reserved for disa ..read more
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Urban Planning and Disability in India
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2y ago
Introduction Today I was invited to the steering committee meeting of Urban development and Poverty Alleviation for planning of the XII Five year plan. It was a success for the disability sector because in sixty years following tireless advocacy by the Disability Rights Group representation of disability was invited to the various committees. For sixty years we have lived with only Ministry of Social Justice being the sole ministry planning for disabled people. I was excited about participating and prepared a paper well in advance stating the issues relating to Disability and Urbanisation ..read more
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Heaven in Hell
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2y ago
Ubbu, my dog, was diagnosed with Tick Fever because of which her blood reports showed multi organ dysfunction. My stress levels were high. Being a disabled person with limited mobility always made me feel that I am not doing enough to comfort her and bring her back to health. People who have pets would understand my anxiety because they would know that Ubbu is my child. Dr Prabhakar was treating her, a very experienced, kind and patient veterinarian who had visited Ubbu at home, but now that she was diagnosed with this dreadful disease he wanted Ubbu to visit him at Friendicoes. I ..read more
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