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DPI e-update - 8 May 2009

Welcome to Disabled Peoples International's (DPI's) E-news. Please continue to send your activities, conference information, and publications news to Dr. Cassandra Phillips at info@dpi.org.

Simple Guide to the Treaty Bodies Additions

The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) first published the Simple Guide to the Treaty Bodies in November 2007. The Guide aims to provide human rights defenders and their organisations with a broad overview of the UN human rights treaty body system and its functions in order to support their effective engagement with the treaty bodies in their own work. It also contains information on the relationship between the treaty bodies and other international human rights mechanisms, relevant developments related to the harmonisation of the working methods of the treaty bodies, and a glossary and e-resources for further reference.

The latest 2009 edition of the Simple Guide has been updated to include the first meeting of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, February 2009, and the adoption and opening for ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

For a direct link to the guide available only in pdf format, please go to http://www.ishr.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=419

Human Rights Resources

The Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) works to promote the human rights of people with disabilities worldwide. Now available for free download are:

* We have Human Rights, a Handbook with an easy to read explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

* Change your Life with Human Rights, an easy to read explanation of how to advocate for your human rights.

* "Tenemos Derechos Humanos" a Spanish language translation of We Have Human Rights. For links to all of the above in pdf and Word, go to http://www.hpod.org/

Global Challenges for Youth with Disabilities

The Korean Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (KSRPD) intends to conduct an international study program to empower young persons with disabilities. This 10 day program will be held mid August 2009 in Seoul, Korea. Young people with disabilities, aged 18-30 years able to speak and write in English are eligible to apply. Cost for those selected will be covered by the KSRPD. Information in Korean available at http://freeget.net

Conference and Call for Papers

The 2010 International VSA arts Festival is a multicultural event celebrating the accomplishments of people with disabilities in arts and arts education. The festival, which brings together artists, educators, and researchers from around the world, will be held in Washington, D.C., 6-12 June 2009. It will feature performances and exhibitions by prominent artists at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution's International Gallery, and other venues throughout Washington, D.C. Additionally, the 2010 International VSA arts Festival will once again serve as a convergence of knowledge and practice in the arts, education, and disability through the VSA arts International Conference.

To compete in our global knowledge-based economy, education systems around the world need to move toward inclusive education and bring the skills and competencies that are needed in the 21st century to all children, and also to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. VSA arts recognizes the arts as vital to all three: creativity as inclusive practice, arts learning as fundamental to everyone's education, and the arts as a viable career path for people with disabilities.

With these objectives in mind, the VSA arts International Conference will address advancing inclusive education and 21st-century learning skills through the arts including a career development forum for artists with disabilities.

Education systems worldwide are facing many challenges as they move toward inclusive education and develop the skills and competencies needed in the 21st century. The arts have a strategic role to play in meeting these challenges, as well as providing children and adults access to quality education. The arts in education offers a unique approach to developing cognitive and social skills, promoting innovative thinking and creativity, and encouraging behavior and values that underlie social tolerance and respect for diversity. With this framework, VSA arts invites key policymakers, educators, artists and teaching artists, school and program administrators, and researchers to share their expertise, experiences, most effective research-based methods, lessons learned, and innovative practices. Deadline for submissions is 29 May 2009. For more information, go to www.vsarts.org .

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