Empowerment Cafe Weekly Bulletin 5-11 December 2015
INDONESIA: Disability Bill Should Mandate Accessibility - Minister
PHILIPPINES: Hear a Whistle? It Could Be a Child with Disability Calling for Help
www.rappler.com
INDIA: Check Acid Sale, Include Victims in Disability List, Supreme Court Tells States
www.indianexpress.com
WORLD: Talking to Your Child About Tragedy - Six Tips for the Autism Community
www.autismspeaks.org
WORLD: Breakthrough Study Reveals Biological Basis for Sensory Processing Disorders in Kids
www.ucsf.edu
THAILAND: Disabled Activist Hits Back at Thoughtless People Parking in Disabled Spaces (VIDEO)
www.thaivisa.com
CAMBODIA: Disabilities are Not Sins, Cambodia's Disabled Say
www.phnompenhpost.com
INDIA: Towards Accessible and Inclusive India
www.dailypioneer.com
WORLD: Disability Awareness Effort Asks People to ‘Just Say Hi’
www.disabilityscoop.com
WORLD: The Media - and What It Is Like to Be Someone with a Learning Disability in It
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
WORLD: Mental Illness - Disability or Opportunity?
www.news24.com
NEW ZEALAND: At the Intersection of Aged Care and Disability
www.insitemagazine.co.nz
FIJI: Persons with Disability Urged to Stand Tall In Society
www.fijisun.com.fj
INDONESIA: Access to Transport That Can Be Enforced in Solo City
www.zeroproject.org
WORLD: Woman with Disability Recreates Kylie Jenner's Wheelchair Photoshoot
www.stuff.co.nz
WORLD: Autism Helped Messi to Become the World’s Best
www.dailydock.com
THAILAND: Thai Man with Disability Volunteers to Help Accident Victims (VIDEO)
www.thestartv.com
MALAYSIA: Lazy, Uncaring Drivers Hog Parking Bays for Persons with Disabilities
www.themalaysianinsider.com
SINGAPORE: First Deaf Priest in Southeast Asia is Ordained
www.ucanews.com
WORLD: Disability Inclusion is a Mindset, Not a Numbers Game
www.aegon.com
WORLD: Small Business Gets a Good Report Card on Caring For Customers and Staff with a Disability
www.huffingtonpost.com.au
AUSTRALIA: Disability SA Forced to Make $60 million in Cuts as Autism Cases 'Skyrocket'
www.abc.net.au
BANGLADESH: Only 0.3% RMG Factories Hires Persons with Disabilities
www.rmgbd.net
MIDDLE EAST: DCA Allocates SR202 Million for Persons with Disabilities
www.arabnews.com
SRI LANKA: The Wheelchair of Justice (EDITORIAL)
www.dailymirror.lk
WORLD: Autism Fussy Eaters - How to Help Them Overcome Their Sensory Problems
www.mendability.com
WORLD: Listen to Children with Disabilities
www.plan-international.org
PHILIPPINES: Taguig’s Good Practices on Disability—and What It Missed
www.pwdfiles.verafiles.org
JAPAN: JICA’s Efforts on Disability and Development
www.jica.go.jp
MIDDLE EAST: Prince Mired Highlights Need ‘to Make Disability More Visible’
www.jordantimes.com
WORLD: Physical Disability and Engineering of Environments
www.npr.org
WORLD: Learning Disability Employment Rate 'Unacceptable'
www.bbc.com
SRI LANKA: Plight of Persons with Disabilities in Sri Lanka
www.island.lk
PHILIPPINES: Disability-Inclusive Electoral Systems: Analyzing the Philippine Electoral Policy Using the Disability Convention (DisCo) Policy Framework
www.link.springer.com
INDIA: Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill to Be Put Before Union Cabinet
www.politicoscope.com
VIETNAM: Workshop Discusses Support for Elderly and Persons with Disabilities
www.vietnambreakingnews.com
WORLD: SRSG Santos Pais Adds Her Voice to the Campaign to #ENDviolence Against Children with Disabilities
www.srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org
WORLD: Sibling Walks Alongside Twin Brother with Autism at Graduation
www.autismspeaks.org
INDIA: Battling Blindness, Doctor Helps Kids with Autism
www.newindianexpress.com
AUSTRALIA: Disability 'Apartheid' Exists in Australia as Community 'Looks for the Wheelchair', Dignity for Disability MP Says
www.daily-feeds.com
MALAYSIA: Time to Take a Serious Look at the Plight of the Disabled
www.star2.com
INDIA: Para-Athlete to Attempt World Record by Pulling Ship with Hand
www.indianexpress.com
WORLD: Providence Firefighter's Disability Claim Takes Surprising Turn
www.providencejournal.com
WORLD: Disability Conference Kicks Off with Film Fest
www.wfyi.org
CAMBODIA: Experts Say Government All Talk, No Action on Support for Disabled
www.cambodiadaily.com
THAILAND: Anchaya Silences Doubters with Seven Golds
www.straitstimes.com
SINGAPORE: Singapore Bags Golds in Swimming, Table Tennis in ASEAN Para Games
www.news.asiaone.com
INDONESIA: International Day of Persons with Disabilities Commemorated in Surabaya (PHOTOS)
www.citizenside.com
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Polye Observes World Disability Day
www.news.pngfacts.com
INDIA: Cultural Program Marks World Disability Day
www.tribuneindia.com
WORLD: What It's Like to Live with an 'Invisible' Disability
www.stuff.co.nz