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International Projects France Industrial, and Professional Trade Union Susanne Bruyère, director of the ILR Employment and Disability Institute, recently traveled to Dublin, Ireland, to meet with representatives of the Service, (SIPTU) and the National Health Service of Ireland to explore possible training programs for their employees working on disability issues. Bruyère also met with representatives of the National (Ireland) Equality Authority and the National Disability Authority, civil rights governmental organizations in Dublin, and the Disability Rights Commission and the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office Strategy Unit staff in London. These latter four meetings focused specifically on the design and implementation of employment and disability policy at the national level, for people with disabilities. Thomas Golden, project director of the Work Incentives Support Center in the ILR Employment and Disability Institute, gave a presentation titled “Federal Policy, Choice, and Employment: Lessons Learned from the U.S. and Ticket to Ireland Work Act,” at the 12th World Congress on Intellectual Disabilities in Montpellier, France, on June 18. Professors Harry Katz and Sarosh Kuruvilla made presentations at the recent Asian Regional Congress of the IIRA held in Seoul, Korea. This international conference, “Dynamics and Diversity of Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region,” was convened by the Korea Labor Institute and the Korea Industrial Relations Association. During their visit, Katz and Kuruvilla were invited guests of a special Cornell alumni dinner coordinated by Tae-Jin Kim, MILR ’93, and attended by several ILRies living and working in Seoul. Professor Harry Katz was part of a small group of international scholars who participated in a dinner discussion about labor and employment issues with Korea President Roh Mu-Hyeon at the Blue House on June 24. The discussion was facilitated by Won-Duck Lee, former president of the KLI and former ILR visiting fellow, who is now a senior policy adviser to the president at the Blue House. All participants in the discussion were attending the IIRA conference (photo, bottom right). S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla, senior research associate in the ILR Employment and Disability Institute, gave a presentation titled “An International Classification of Function (ICF)-based Tool to Identify Services and Supports Needs for Inmates with Developmental Disabilities” at the Tenth Annual North American Collaborating Center Conference on ICF held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 1–4, 2004. The conference was organized by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications for North America. Barbara Viniar, executive director of the Institute for Community College Development (ICCD), delivered a paper at the 2004 China–U.S. Community College Conference held in Beijing in July. The purpose of the conference is to enable Chinese and U.S. community colleges to form institutional partnerships. Community colleges are very active internationally, recruiting international students and providing technical assistance to emerging colleges and systems in Australia, Eastern Europe, Central America, and Asia (photo opposite). Professors Katz (left) and Kuruvilla Professor Katz (second from left) shakes hands with South Korean president Roh Mu-Nyeon (right). 8 ■ ILR Connections/Fall 2004 www.ilr.cornell.edu
Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Livelihoods for People with Disabilities: Gaining Global Perspective As a part of the Disabled Persons’ International (DPI) Global Summit held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in September 2004, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and GLADNET worked together to gather the most innovative ideas from around the world to share with others in the Global Village exhibits and also on three workshops on strategies to promote sustainable livelihoods for indigenous people, women, and youth with disabilities. The GLADNET Association, affiliated with the ILO Disability and Work Programme, brings together research centers, universities, government departments, trade unions, and organizations of and for persons with disabilities and is chaired by ILR’s Susanne Bruyère. China ILR Faculty and Students Participate in Transatlantic Social Dialogue Brussels ILR faculty and students recently participated in the second in an ongoing series of Transatlantic Dialogue meetings jointly sponsored by the ILR School, the European Trade Union Institute, Hans- Boeckler-Stiftung, and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung. The May 2004 conference, held in Brussels, included a mix of researchers, students, and union officials, with an emphasis on bringing together union innovators and alliance builders on both sides of the Atlantic. UNITE president Bruce Raynor, ILR ’72, and Tom Woodruff, executive vice president of SEIU, together with several Belgium of their European counterparts, were among those representing unions. The conference focused on cross-national union collaboration at multinational corporations. Five ILR-Cornell Ph.D. students also gave presentations, and one MILR student and two undergrads also participated in the sessions and discussions. Faculty coordinators for ILR were Lowell Turner and Lee Adler. ■ www.ilr.cornell.edu ILR Connections/Fall 2004 ■ 9
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