DISABILITY BANGLADESH: August 2009

Monday 3 August 2009

Our major accomplishments...

Popular version of Disability Convention (CRPD) in Bengali. Publisher: National Disability Forum (NFOWD)
Bengali translation and DAISY production of Disability and Human Rights in Bangladesh (for ADD), thanks to YPSA for DAISY support
National Translation of CRPD. Publishers: ActionAid, ADD, NFOWD and Disability Bangladesh
Autism Awareness Poster on the occasion of 1st World Autism Awareness Day (together with SWAC, ActionAid and NFOWD) indebted to our comrades Adwit-Baby-Rana
Organised 3-day long Film Show on the occasion of International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2008

Upcoming....

Book entitled, "I'm a Person, Not a Puzzle: Life and Struggle of Autistic People to be published by Srabon Publishers
Protibondhita O Unnoyon: Bhabna o Torpotota (Disability and Development: Concepts and Practices) in Bengali

Who we are...

A multi-disciplinary team
Unity and Diversity in team
Believers of equal rights and dignity of persons with disabilities
Promoters of disability-pride
Experienced to work on the issues of disability and development from a rights-based approach
Concrete work experience on CRPD and its further development process
A registered non-profit

Disability Bangladesh

Disability Bangladesh aims to facilitate a paradigm shift from an all-pervading welfare and charity backed by clinical ideology of disability towards a human rights-based approach.
We promote the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
We believe persons with disabilities are part of human diversity, their physical, mental, intellectual, sensory or any other kind of otherness is part of beauty of this human family.
Join us to celebrate human difference as the strength, as potential and as beauty.
Join hands to strengthen the movement of persons with disabilities for their equal rights and dignity everywhere.
Join the global movement to end discrimination, exclusion, exploitation in the lives of persons with disabilities and their families on the basis of disability.