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49 Mittler, Peter, personal communication, February2007. See also Gunnar Dybwad in Bersani, H.,Responding to the Challenge: Current trends andissues in developmental disabilities, BrooklineBooks, Cambridge, MA, 1999.50 Rosenthal, Eric, et al., Children in Russia’sInstitutions: Human rights and opportunities forreform, Mental Disability Rights International,Washington, DC, 1999, p. iii, .51 Pinheiro, Paulo S., World Report on Violenceagainst Children, United Nations, New York,2006, pp. 187-189.52 UNICEF, Children and Disability in Transition inCEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit.53 ’Recognizing the Abilities of Disabled Children’,Centre for Europe’s Children.54 Rosenthal, Eric, et al., Children in Russia’sInstitutions, op. cit.55 UNICEF, Children and Disability in Transition inCEE/CIS and Baltic States, op. cit., p. 19.56 See, for example, ; ’Human Rights and MentalHealth in Peru’, A report by Mental DisabilityRights International and Asociacion ProDerechos Humanos, September 2004, Lima,Peru, ; ’Human Rightsand Mental Health: Mexico’, A report by MentalDisability Rights International, 2000, .57 See, for example, UN Committee on the Rightsof the Child, Concluding Observations on theRights of the Child: Turkey, 9 July 2001, CRC/C/15/Add. 152; UN Committee on the Rightsof the Child, Concluding Observations on theRights of the Child: Albania, 28 January 2005,CRC/C/15/Add. 249.58 Many studies provide scientific or anecdotalevidence of the vulnerability to abuse of childrenwith disabilities. See, for example, Baladerian, N.J., ’Sexual Abuse of People with DevelopmentalDisabilities’, Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 9, No.4 (1991), and Sobsey, D. and T. Doe, ’Patternsof Sexual Abuse and Assault’, Sexuality andDisability, Vol. 9, No. 3 (1991), both quoted inBerglund, A.-K., A Matter of Social Context: Thesexual abuse of children with disabilities, RäddaBarnen, Stockholm, 1997. See also Senn, C.,Vulnerable: Sexual abuse and people with anintellectual handicap, G. Allan Roeher Institute,Ontario, 1988.59 Pinheiro, Paulo S., World Report on Violenceagainst Children,op. cit., p. 68. See also UnitedNations Secretary-General’s Study on Violenceagainst Children, Summary Report of theThematic Meeting on Violence against Childrenwith Disabilities, op. cit.60 Groce, Nora Ellen, An Overview of Young PeopleLiving with Disabilities, op. cit.61 See, for example, Boukhari, H., ’Invisible Victims:Working with mothers of children with learningdisabilities’, in Abu-Habib, L., Gender andDisability: Women’s experiences in the MiddleEast, Oxfam UK, 1997.62 Jones, Hazel, Disabled Children’s Rights, op. cit.63 United Nations Secretary-General’s Study onViolence against Children, Summary Reportof the Thematic Meeting on Violence againstChildren with Disabilities, op. cit.64 See, for example, Jones, Hazel, DisabledChildren’s Rights, op. cit.65 Overviews, including of impacts on children,are provided by the annual Landmine MonitorReports produced by the International Campaignto Ban Landmines, , and inHandicap International, Circle of Impact: Thefatal footprint of cluster munitions on peopleand communities, Brussels, May 2007, .66 International Campaign to Ban Landmines,Landmine Monitor Report 2005: Toward amine-free world, .67 UNICEF, Children Affected by Armed Conflict,UNICEF, New York, 2002, p. 91.68 See, for example, World Bank, Report of theOnline Forum on Disabled and Other VulnerablePeople in Natural Disasters, World BankDisability and Development Team, Washington,DC, December 2006, .69 Healthlink Worldwide, CBR News (Special issueon Disability and War), No. 32 (December-March2000).70 CRC, article 12; CRPD, articles 7 and 21.71 National Dissemination Center for Children withDisabilities, ; Entre Amigos– Rede De Informações Sobre Deficiência,.72 Groce, Nora Ellen, An Overview of Young PeopleLiving with Disabilities, op. cit.73 See, for example, Groce, Nora Ellen, ’HIV/AIDSand Individuals with Disability’, Health andHuman Rights, vol. 8, no. 2 (2005).Chapter 674 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Open File on InclusiveEducation, op. cit.75 Lansdown, G., Disabled Children in South Africa,Disability Awareness in Action, London, 2002.76 Vatsa, Krishna, ’Family and CommunityEmpowerment through Inclusion’, paperpresented to the 15th Asian Conference on’Mental Retardation’, Manila, 11-17 November2001, and .77 Communication from Pramila Balasundaram,Founder-Director of Samadhan NGO, NewDelhi, India. 9 March 2005. See also , accessed17 August 2007.41 Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities Innocenti Digest No. 13
78 Shared Care Network, , accessed17 August 2007.79 Centre for International Rehabilitation,’Networking in Nicaragua’, , accessed17 August 2007.80 Los Pipitos, , accessed17 August 2007.81 Family Voices, .82 International Disability in Sport Working Groupand Office of the Special Adviser to theSecretary-General on Sport for Developmentand Peace, Sport in the UN Convention on theRights of Persons with Disabilities, IDSWG,Northeastern University, Boston, 2007.83 McCarthy, Reuben, ’Sport and Children withDisabilities’, in ibid., pp. 13-15.84 Save the Children UK and UNICEF, 25 January2005.85 UNICEF Pacific Islands 2003 Annual Report.86 European Disability Forum, DevelopmentCooperation and Disability, op. cit.; Save theChildren UK, Vietnam Country Report 1999,87 Heeren, Nicolas, ’Inclusive Education throughCommunity Development in Bangladesh’, 2004,, accessed 17 August 2007; EuropeanDisability Forum, Development Cooperation andDisability, op. cit.88 Mittler, Peter, ’International Experience inIncluding Children with Disabilities in OrdinarySchools’, paper prepared for UNICEF seminarsin Tunisia and Italy, October 2002, p. 8, .89 UNICEF Belarus 2003 Annual Report.90 International Labour Organization, UnitedNations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization, UNICEF and World HealthOrganization, ’Community-Based Rehabilitation:CBR for and with people with disabilities’,joint position paper; revised 2004 to includedimension of poverty reduction.91 This exchange is facilitated by events suchas the conference on ’Community-BasedRehabilitation as a Participatory Strategy inAfrica’ held in Uganda in September 2001 andinvolving delegates from 14 different countries.92 World Health Organization, ’Disability andRehabilitation: future trends and challengesin rehabilitation’, 2002, .93 Communication from Geraldine Mason Halls,National CBR Committee, Guyana, 21 November2002.94 A fuller discussion of strategies fordeinstitutionalization is found in UNICEF,Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CISand Baltic States, op. cit.95 Jones, Hazel, Disabled Children’s Rights, op. cit.96 ’Recognizing the Abilities of Disabled Children’,Centre for Europe’s Children. , accessed August2007.97 Mittler, Peter, ’International Experience inIncluding Children with Disabilities in OrdinarySchools’, op. cit.98 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Open File on InclusiveEducation, op. cit.99 Ibid.100 Fundación Escuela Nueva Volvamos a la Gente,.101 Ministerio de Educación Publica, ’CentroNacional de Recursos Para la InclusiónEducativa’, Consejo Nacional de Rehabilitacióny Educación Especial y Fundación Mundo deOportunidades, San José, Costa Rica, 2005.102 Saleh, Lena, ’Rights of Children with SpecialNeeds’, op. cit.103 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Understanding andResponding to Children’s Needs in InclusiveClassrooms: A guide for teachers, UNESCO,Paris, 2001.104 See, for example, United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization, InclusiveSchools and Community Support Programmes:Report on Phase 2: 1998–2001, UNESCO, Paris,2002.105 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Welcoming Schools:Teachers’ stories on including children withdisabilities in regular classrooms, UNESCO,Paris, 1999.106 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization, Open File on InclusiveEducation, op. cit.107 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Sessional/Annual Report of Committee, Report on the16th Session, op. cit., para. 334.108 European Disability Forum, DevelopmentCooperation and Disability, op. cit.109 Mittler, P., ’Preparing for Self Advocacy’, inCarpenter, B., R. Ashdown, and K. Bovair, K.(eds), Enabling Access: Effective teaching andlearning for pupils with learning difficulties, 2nded., Fulton, London, 2001.Chapter 7110 ’Child Friendly Cities’, , accessed 17 August 2007.For background on the Child-Friendly Citymovement, see UNICEF Innocenti ResearchCentre, Poverty and Exclusion among UrbanChildren, Innocenti Digest No. 10, UNICEF,Florence, 2002.Innocenti Digest No. 13Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities42
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