Here you will find a presentation on Lessons Learned from the Asian Workplace Approach that Respects Equality (AWARE) project – a collaborative five-year project to increase employment for men and women with disabilities in India, Nepal and Bangladesh by working with employers and job seekers with disabilities.
Posts in the Other Asia Pacific news category:
India: Thousands in March to Parliament on 3 December
Around ten thousand disabled persons from various parts of the country took out a March to Parliament on December 3, 2015, coinciding with World Disability Day. Owing allegiance to the affiliates of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), National Federation of the Blind and the National Association of the Blind apart […]
Tokyo Declaration on Community-based Inclusive Development
We, the representatives of organizations of persons with disabilities and other non-governmental organizations on Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR)/Community-based Inclusive Development (CBID, also known as CBR), governments, development agencies, donors and the business sector from 46 countries/areas in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world, in total 553 delegates, participated in the third Asia-Pacific CBR […]
2.08 crore households in India have disabled persons: Census
As many as 2.08 crore households in the country have differently-abled persons constituting 8.3 per cent of the total homes, the 2001-11 Census data said today. According to the 2011 data released by Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India today, out of the total households having disabled persons, about 99 per cent homes are […]
Jakarta: Legal system failing women with disabilities
Women’s Legal Aid (LBH APIK) has called for an improvement in regulations to assist women with disabilities in navigating the legal system, citing insufficient provisions for these women’s needs in the legal process. The organization noted that women with a disability often faced legal difficulties as their testimonies were often deemed unreliable as the necessary […]
Parliament Panel Bats For Setting Up of Disability Rights Tribunal
Batting for a Disability Rights Tribunal, a parliamentary panel has recommended increased penalty for offences against persons with disabilities, and suggested bringing “long term” diseases including diabetes Type-I, kidney failure and blood cancer, besides dwarfism, under the bracket of disabilities. The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment, which went into the Right of Persons […]
House panel for expanding disability ‘bracket’
NEW DELHI: Supporting the establishment of a Disability Rights Tribunal, a parliamentary panel has recommended increased penalty for offences against persons with disabilities, and suggested bringing “long term” diseases, including diabetes Type-I, kidney failure and blood cancer besides dwarfism, under the bracket of disabilities. The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment, which examined the […]
Disaster plus disabilities: How four tourism stakeholders create positivity in Nepal
The International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP,) together with eTurboNews (eTN), Radisson Hotel Kathmandu, Four Seasons Travel, and a Nepalese student group called Passion to Travel, is putting a smile on happy faces of disabled tourists visiting the Kathmandu Valley and interacting with their local hosts, stakeholders, and Nepal hospitality and tourism industry students. It’s […]
CRPD considers initial report of Mongolia
9 April 2015 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities yesterday and today considered the initial report of Mongolia on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Munkhbaatar Begzjav, Deputy Minister for Population Development and Social Protection of Mongolia, said that persons with disabilities constituted some 3.3 per […]
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities considers initial report of Turkmenistan
2 April 2015 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Turkmenistan on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Seyitmammed Akmammedov, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Turkmenistan, said that the 2013 Code on the Social Protection […]