BE INFORMED
This section is
a ready reckoner for notes on NGO’s and the latest in Law
and Social Policy. What’s happening in the disability
sector? Also, check out the Internet websites recommended
here for more information. In short, it’s news you can
use.
NGO CO-ORDINATION
Ability
Foundation interacts and disseminates information with
various NGOs from across the country. Networking is the
oxygen we breathe, the sustenance that keeps us going.
More than 70 NGOs from Southern India alone participated
in our workshop on “Acting on the Act II”.
An innovative way through which we network is the
publication and distribution of our unique magazine
Success & ABILITY. For thirteen years now, the magazine
has profiled NGOs working to educate, train and
rehabilitate people with various disabilities. Networking
through the publication of articles, interviews and news
reports in Success & ABILITY is in line with the fact that
we are an umbrella cross-disability advocacy organization,
bringing together like-minded people, towards common
goals.
Here is a list of NGOs in various areas
of service and advocacy.
DISABILITY RELATED WEBSITES
For information specific to your needs,
click here.
LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
Over the
years, disability, mercifully, has moved from being a
charity issue to a human rights issue. There is now
justified clamour for including disability in all
departments of the state. Activists insist that disability
is not a part of the Welfare Ministry. Enlightened judges
have demanded implementation of the Act in its entirety.
Judicial activism has helped in fighting discrimination on
the grounds of disability.
Read about all this and more.
HRLN
The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is a
collective of lawyers and social activists dedicated to
the use of legal system to advance human rights.
Click here for more details