Is ‘Nothing About Us, Without Us,’ just a jargon today?

DPI Chair, Mr. Javed Abidi’s second blog entry, May 2012 on the Disability Rights Knowledge Network hosted by the Commonwealth Connects Portal at http://www.commonwealthconnects.org/connects/.

In the 1980s, a revolution took place in the lives of millions of people with disabilities across the world when they decided that they themselves will take decisions affecting their lives and thereby rejecting the hold that parents and professionals had on the disability sector and its policy and decision making until then. And thus was born the slogan ‘Nothing About Us, Without Us’.  Click here for the complete blog. 

Information is Power: But are we hearing what the grassroots have to say?

DPI Chair, Mr. Javed Abidi’s first blog entry, April 2012 on the Disability Rights Knowledge Network hosted by the Commonwealth Connects Portal at http://www.commonwealthconnects.org/connects/

The 80s and the 90s saw a gradual rise in the organisations of people with disabilities, self-advocates who were the front-runners in all the discussions surrounding disability issues. Professionals, parents and NGOs had no choice but to take a back seat. Up until the passage of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).  Click here to read the complete blog. 

The DPI NAC Inc. Public Relations Officer, Mr. Perro Holloway, and the Treasurer of the Barbados National Organization of the Disabled (BARNOD) Inc., Mr. Winston Callendar presented over the election of an Executive to begin building the newest member of the DPI NAC Inc. network of organizations, the Montserrat Association of Persons with Disabilities (MAPD)!!  More soon… 

The Dominica Association of Persons with Disabilities Incorporated (DAPD Inc.) undertook an Educational Campaign on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) that included workshops on January 31, 2012, February 29, 2012 and March 14, 2012.  A  National Consultation was held on April 11, 2012 following which DAPD sought to meet with Cabinet to make a formal request for ratification. 

The DPI NAC Inc. Member Organization (MO) in St. Lucia, the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities Inc. (NCPD Inc.) held its Biennial General Meeting on Sunday, November 20, 2011! 

DPI NAC Inc. Public Relations Officer (PRO) and Regional Youth Network (RYN) Coordinator attended the Technical Meeting of Government and Civil Society Representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) held in Paramaribo, Suriname on November 7-8, 2011. 

DPI NAC Immediate Past Chairperson and DPI NAC Inc. President attended the Fourth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) from September 7-9, 2011, as well as the Meeting of the Governing Body of the International Disability Alliance (IDA) on September 10-11, 2011. 

Disabled Peoples' International North America and the Caribbean (DPI NAC) became an incorporated non-profit entity on April 29, 2011, and during its recently concluded Eighth Regional Assembly on August 20,  2011, the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws were tabled and adopted by the DPI NAC Inc. Regional Council ushering in the new dispensation, DPI NAC Inc.! 

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