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This handbook presents ideas to prepare for, plan, design, and run a workshop on gender and women's oppression. It is intended for community, adult, and popular educators, trainers, organizers, facilitators, or teachers. Section 1 helps the reader to think about women's oppression and gender, understand the need to challenge women's oppression, and see the possibilities for challenging it through popular education. Section 2 explains procedures for organizing and running a workshop to challenge women's oppression through popular education methods. Section 3 explains what the activities are for and how to use them. Appendices include a glossary of terms, a handy reference to workshop techniques, and a list of 32 resources

In almost every society, women who are disabled are devalued, firstly because of their gender, and secondly because of the myths and misconceptions about impairment. This book is about women's experience of disability and the impact on them of double discrimination

Contains information on a wide range of countries worldwide

This Convention is a universally agreed set of non-negotiable standards and obligations. These basic standards, or human rights, set minimum entitlements and freedoms that should be respected by governments. The four core principles of the Convention are non-discrimination; devotion to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; and respect for the views of the child. The Convention protects children's rights by setting standards in health care; education; and legal, civil and social services. It stipulates that children everywhere have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation; and to participate fully in family, cultural and social life. By agreeing to undertake the obligations of the Convention (by ratifying or acceding to it), national governments have committed themselves to protecting and ensuring children's rights and they have agreed to hold themselves accountable for this commitment before the international community

The World Programme of Action (WPA) is a global strategy to enhance disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities, which pertains to full participation of persons with disabilities in social life and national development. The WPA also emphasizes the need to approach disability from a human rights perspective. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 37th regular session on 3 December 1982

This site, hosted by the UN, is focuses on disability issues. Its mission is to assist in the promotion of effective measures for prevention of disability, rehabilitation, and the realization of the goals of full participation of disabled persons in social life and development, and of equality.The 'Disabled Person’s Bulletin' is available on this site. There is a special section on accessibility. Documents relating to disability issues such as the 'World Programme of Action' can be found via the parliamentary documents icon