Disability Rights Links
Last updated 6 July 2009
Contents
- About this page
- Disability community links : Links and news pages; Peak / major organisations; Discussion groups
- Industry and employer organisations
- State and Territory discrimination bodies
- Other State and territory government bodies
- Australian government
- International including U.S., Canadian, European, Asia-Pacific and general international resources
- United Nations
- Legal services and resources
- Disability awareness resources
- Other resources
About this page |
These links are the major links the Commissions Disability Rights policy section finds useful in our own work. Of course, linking to a site or page does not mean we necessarily agree with or endorse everything on it. Note that there are also links in specific areas on our pages on access to premises, communications, Commonwealth government programs, ecommerce, employment, education, public transport and web access.
Please let us know (email disabdis@humanrights.gov.au) if you have additional links to suggest (your own or someone elses) or if you have problems using any of these links.
Disability links |
Links and news pages
PWD Australia e-bulletins
accessibility.com.au: News and information page on access issues
Enablenet: Disability Information
Resource Centre portal
Link Magazine
NDS
NSW's links page
Disability Council NSW links page
European Disability
Federation news page
Peak / major organisations
Australian Federation of Disability
Organisations
National Disability Services (formerly ACROD)
Association of Consultants in Access
Deaf Australia (formerly Australian Association of the Deaf)
Australian
Federation of AIDS Organisations
Blind
Citizens Australia
Brain Injury
Australia
Carers
Association
Council
on the Ageing
Deafness
Forum
Deafblind organisations
Disability
Council NSW
Mental Health Council of Australia
National
Council on Intellectual Disability
National Ethnic Disability Alliance
People With Disability Australia
Physical
Disability Council of Australia
Women
With Disabilities Australia
Disability Studies and Research Institute
Industry and employer organisations |
Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Diversity Council Australia
Australian
Building Codes Board
Australian Employers Network on Disability
Australian
Local Government Association
Communications Alliance (Australian
communications industry forum)
Council
of Small Business Organisations of Australia
State and Territory anti-discrimination and equal opportunity agencies and law |
Click here for links to anti-discrimination and equal opportunity agencies
Decisions under State laws
NSW
Administrative Decisions Tribunal
Queensland AntiDiscrimination
Tribunal decisions
South Australia Equal Opportunity Tribunal
Victorian
Civil and Administrative Tribunal
NT
Anti-Discrimination Commission decisions
A.C.T. Discrimination
Tribunal
W.A. State Administrative Tribunal
Other State and Territory government bodies |
W.A.
Disability Services Commission
NSW
Ageing and Disability Department
Disability Services Queensland
Victorian Office for Disability
S.A. Social Inclusion Board disability page
Australian Government |
Commonwealth
Government Entry Point
FACSIA disability page
Attorney-General's Department disability discrimination page
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Disability in Australia : trends in prevalence, education, employment and community living
Australian
Bureau of Statistics: Disability Ageing and Carers 1998
United Nations |
See also our page on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Declaration
on the Rights of Disabled Persons
Declaration
on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
U.N.
Mental Illness Principles
UN
Rapporteur on Disability home page
UN
Social Development Commission disability page
UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights disability page
Commissioner
for Human Rights report 2002 on human rights and disability
Committee
on Economic Social and Cultural Rights: General Comment on Disability
World Programme
of Action Concerning Disabled Persons
UNESCAP disability program
U.N. Standard Rules for the Equalisation of Opportunities for People with Disabilities
- Text of Standard Rules for the Equalisation of Opportunities for People with Disabilities
- Institute on Independent Living page on Standard Rules including 1996 reports on Australian compliance
- Proposed supplement to standard rules recommended in report of Special Rapporteur on Disability on 3rd mandate 2000-02
- Australian Federation of Disability Organisations response to UN Global Survey on equalisation of opportunities for people with disabilities, 2005
International |
United Kingdom
- Resources from the former Disability Rights Commission - includes the award winning Talk video resources
- UK Equality and Human Rights Commission including Equality Measurement Framework
United States
US Access Board
US Department of Justice
ADA enforcement page including quarterly status reports
US
Department of Justice Disability Rights Legislation links and ADA
home page
US
Federal Communications Commission disabilities issues
Disability Rights Education and Defence
Fund (DREDF)
National Organisation on Disability
buyaccessible.gov - Accessible procurement resources site from US General Services Administration
Canada
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Ontario Accessibility Standards
Canadian
Office for Disability Issues
People with disabilities online
Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Abilities magazine
Europe
European Disability Federation
Irish Human Rights Commission
Asia-pacific
- Asia-Pacific disability links : UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
- The Pacific Plan
- The UN Millennium Development Goals
- UNESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) Disability Programme homepage
- The UN Millennium Development Goals homepage
General
Disability World newsletter
Institute
on Independent Living
Yahoo!
disabilities links
GLADNET
(Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment
and Training)
International Centre for Disability Resources
on the Internet
A survey of international,
comparative and regional disability law reform : Theresia Degener,
Gerard Quinn
Universal design
Adaptive
Environments
Universal
design information (TRACE Center)
Centre
for Universal Design
Centre for
Inclusive Design and Environmental Access
Disabled
Peoples International
International
Commission on Technology and Accessibility
Microsoft research on benefits of universal design in technology
Universal
design links
Legal resources |
Australasian
Legal Information Institute
(Austlii)
Directory
of community legal centres
(from Austlii)
Federal Magistrates Service
Federal Court
Specialist
disability legal and advocacy centres
Comlaw
(databases from Attorney-General s Department)
Disability awareness resources |
Videos and other resources from the UK Disability Rights Commission
Access awareness handbooks from Access Audits Australia
Disability awareness kit from State Library of Victoria /RVIB
Creature discomforts disability awareness ads
Other resources |
Association of Consultants in Access
Media Access Australia
National
relay service number: 133 677
Directory of Auslan
sign language interpreters
Realtime transcription
service: ComputerReporters
Independent
Living Centre (WA)
IDEAS inc (Information on Disability: Equipment Access Services)
International Day
of People with a Disability homepage
Living History Project: report on 20 years of lived experiences of disability in Australia
E-bility disability resources online
Sexuality
and disability on line bibliography
Microsoft study on
wide range of abilities and its impact on I.T.
Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare disability publications including