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Trade Unions: Promoting Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities
Advocating for the rights of people with disabilities is fully in line with trade union history and mission. This short video highlights how trade unions are playing a major role in campaigning for, organizing, promoting rights and providing skills training for persons with disabilities in workplaces worldwide. - 5mins 22s (31,985 KB) - (Video) 
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Chaltu: Never Too Old to Change Her Life
At 70, Chaltu is living proof that with improved access to business skills development, credit and new markets business success is possible. ILO-supported training in Improve Your Business in a project carried out in East Africa promotes small business growth among women entrepreneurs – including women with disabilities or HIV/AIDS. Women’s entrepreneurship helps reduce poverty, promote gender equality and empower women.
- 3mins 35s (8.9 MB) - (Video)
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 3 December 2008
The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPwD), 3 December, aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life. This year’s IDPwD is based on the goal of full and equal enjoyment of human rights and participation in society by persons with disabilities. (The official title of the Day was changed from International Day of Disabled Persons to International Day of Persons with Disabilities by General Assembly resolution 62/127 on 18 December 2007.)
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Count us in!
How to make sure that women with disabilities can participate effectively in mainstream women's entrepreneurship development activities
Until now, most programmes and projects have worked with people with
disabilities in isolation, separately from the main thrust of activity. At the
same time most mainstream initiatives have not considered the inclusion of
people with disabilities in any meaningful way. With the greater emphasis now on including
disabled people in general programmes and projects, managers, staff and partners of the ILO
and other UN agencies are likely to need more information on how to mainstream effectively.
The Count Us In! guidelines aim to meet that need. They are designed, in the first instance,
for enterprise development specialists, as well as those involved in management and planning
in this field, to enable them to include persons with disabilities in general entrepreneurship training
and services on an equal basis with others. They also contain practical advice for disability specialists
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- July 2008 - Women's Entrepreneurship Development
Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia - (pdf 4,291 KB)
Women’s entrepreneurship helps reduce poverty, promote gender equality and empower women. The ILO’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) and Developing Entrepreneurship among Women with Disabilities Projects (DEWD) Projects, both funded by the Government of Ireland, in Africa are showing how learning business knowledge and skills not only creates jobs, but also extends empowerment to the future, promotes decent work and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
This booklet highlights some of the personal experiences of women entrepreneurs in four East African countries – Ethiopia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia – who have benefited from the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme.
- Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia - (pdf 4,086 KB)
This booklet features women entrepreneurs from Ethiopia who have benefited from ILO-Irish Aid supported services, activities and training for women-owned businesses.
- Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania - (pdf 3,198 KB)
This booklet features women entrepreneurs from Tanzania who have benefited from ILO-Irish Aid supported services, activities and training for women-owned businesses.
- Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Uganda - (pdf 3,947 KB)
This booklet features women entrepreneurs from Uganda who have benefited from ILO-Irish Aid supported services, activities and training for women-owned businesses.
- Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Zambia - (pdf 2,857 KB)
This booklet features women entrepreneurs from Zambia who have benefited from ILO-Irish Aid supported services, activities and training for women-owned businesses.
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- AbilityAP
The ILO AbilityAsia Pacific disability programme (AbilityAP) has been researching and collecting laws and policies from around the region that relate to the workplace rights, training, employment and social protection of people with disabilities. This work has been carried out in collaboration with the ILO-Irish Aid project, "Promoting the Employability and Employment of People with Disabilities through Effective Legislation".
Governments and disability activists often request information about what other countries are doing to promote the rights and welfare of disabled persons. To meet these frequent requests the ILO has organized a database of relevant laws, policies and information about the implementation of these laws and policies and compiled them on the AbilityAP website. In some cases the text of the law or policy can be found directly on the website but, more often, a link has been established to a government or related website. These linkages are more likely to ensure that the most current law or information is available.
While the ILO has been collecting and posting this information for about a year, the current listing is the most comprehensive to date and, to our knowledge, represents research not available in any other single location. While emphasis has been placed on Asia Pacific countries, other countries are also represented.
The ILO is now, or will be working with, the UNESCAP, the Asia Pacific Center on Disability, GLADNET and the World Bank to share and further develop this knowledge base, which, in light of the proposed UN Convention to Protect and Promote the Rights and Dignity of People with Disabilities, should be of paramount interest.
To access this wealth of information, please go to National Laws/Information on the AbilityAP website.
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