International Day of Disabled People
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1885 1921 1964 1981 1990 2000 2003 2008 1933 - 1942 Braille breakthrough Disabled people The Group for The United Nations The Americans with Beijing Declaration on European Year of Chain of demands Anna Adler establishes a printing house determine own destiny The Second World War Independence of proclaims 1981 as Disabilities Act is the Rights of People Disabled People Disabled people form a human for blind people, which prints the rst-ever The Council of People’s chain around the National During the period 1933 - 1942 the Nazis It is estimated that 250,000 disabled Physically Disabled International Year passed with Disabilities in the 1809 1817 Russian language Braille book. Commissioners establishes Museum in Dhaka and demand introduced under the Law for the prevention children and adults are murdered Persons (GIHP) is formed of The Disabled It is similar to the Civil Rights New Century the All-Russian Cooperative of full inclusion in society. of progeny with hereditary disease, atrocious between 1939 - 1945 by lethal Act 1964. Birth of Louis First school of its’ kind Disabled People (VIKO). Only attacks aimed at people with mental health injection or starvation. 2005 Braille Laurent Clerc, a deaf teacher born in LaBalme, France in disabled people have voting problems, learning di® culties, epilepsy, In 1824, he develops 1785 and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, found America’s rst rights over the way it is run. Organisations of disabled people hold a tactile system using school for deaf children at Hartford. blindness and deafness. The black triangle was used demonstrations to protest against by the Nazis to identify just 6 raised dots to bene t cuts represent the standard In 1939 the T4 Program begins and an estimated disabled persons. alphabet, enabling blind 70,000 disabled people are murdered. Most and partially sighted 1904 of these large-scale killings use poison gas – a 1992 forerunner of the killing programme of Jewish 1975 1994 The Convention on people to read and write Binet “Intelligence” tests The Disability independently. His best people, known as ‘The Final Solution.’ the Rights of Persons Alfred Binet develops a system for Full integration Discrimination Act New declaration friend Gabriel Gauthier 1880 The United Nations Declaration with Disabilities testing intelligence and begins the The facts about the becomes law Representatives of 92 governments becomes the rst person on the Rights of Disabled Persons First world conference comes into force on One step backwards… trend for discriminating between 1932 T4 programme were Disabled Persons International and 25 international organisations 2006 ever to read Braille. calls for full economic and social 3rd May 2008 The International Congress of Educators of schoolchildren on the basis of their exposed by Cardinal (DPI) forms as a consequence hold the World Conference on Special “The impatient integration of disabled people. the Deaf, meeting in Milan, Italy, calls for the supposed ‘mental age’. Galen in 1941. As a of the 1979 Rehabilitation Needs Education, in Salamanca, New rights adopted suppression of all sign languages and the sacking armies of the poor” result, Hitler orders Conference in Winnipeg. Spain. They agree a dynamic new The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 20,000 unemployed disabled of every deaf teacher. This triumph of oralism is the suspension of DPI holds its rst World Congress Statement on the education of all is adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations war veterans and their families seen by deaf advocates as a direct attack upon the programme as a result of growing public in Singapore. disabled children, which calls for Headquarters in New York, and is opened for signature on march on Washington. Tear gas Disability Awareness their culture. concern and pressure from the church and inclusion to be the norm. 30th March 2007. and bayonets are used against in Action (DAA) - judiciary. peaceful protestors and 100 international public people killed. The events of education organisation 1907 1932 inspire a new militancy 1979 established 2009 in the USA and the roots of …one step forward Education ght Formation of the National Association of the Deaf Legalised the disability rights struggle in 1937 1950 1954 Disabled people Active subjects not objects Disability Rights activists by deaf people in the USA, which becomes the discrimination America. Employees Founding “The People Shall Govern” organise themselves The Convention marks a “paradigm shift” in attitudes hold protests about the leading association ghting the ‘oralists’. The eugenics movement gains ght back The Freedom Charter of the African National At the World Congress on Disability towards disabled people, re¦ ecting the movement away new “Right to Education” momentum. Between 1907 and of the in Winnipeg, Canada, organised by Blind employees Congress enshrines the principle of state support 1986 from treating disabled people as “objects” of charity, Bill which excludes up 1943, 30 states pass sterilisation Norwegian Rehabilitation International (RI), a 1998 at workshops in for all disabled people. 1993 medical treatment and social protection towards viewing to 20 million disabled laws aimed at “social mis ts: the Federation of proposal for 50% representation Southern African Pittsburgh hold a The United Nations them as active members of society, capable of claiming children and young mentally retarded, criminals and the of disabled people on the RI board Federation of Disabled sit-down strike after Organisations Shootings declares December 3rd their rights and making decisions based on free and people. insane…”. is turned down. Disabled people being denied the of Disabled People (SAFOD) formed Police open re on a demonstration by informed consent. take the decision to form their own as International Day of right to unionise. People (FFO) in Durban disabled war veterans. Two protestors international organisation. are killed. Disabled People “A statute New law The Mental De ciency Act Segregation Facing down Down with Leading organisations of quite Home Secretary, Winston Churchill brings The Education A¢ rmative provokes protest oppression dependency! BCODP publishes the case of Disabled People uncommon in The Mental De ciency Act. It categorises Act provides for action Paul Hunt and The Union of Physically The Disability Discrimination Act for fully comprehensive Anti draw up the Rights and callousness” people as: ‘handicapped’ The Disabled Persons Peter Wade publish Impaired Against becomes law. Disabled activists hold The Disability A great step forward • idiots children to be (Employment) Act ‘Stigma’, describing Segregation (UPIAS) is Discrimination Legislation protests, calling it “fatally ¦ awed” as it Rights Commission Freedom Bill The Poor Law A new trade union, The National League of the • imbeciles educated but only requires larger employers many of the ways formed. It argues that a allows “justi able discrimination” and Amendment Act Blind (NLB), is founded and campaigns to introduce is launched • feeble minded in special schools or to recruit 3% of registered in which society world constructed only for does not convey full civil rights. comes into force. It state pensions and equal rights for blind workers. establishes a Poor • moral defectives classes. disabled people. oppresses disabled non-disabled people will Colin Barnes publishes 2000 The Equality Act Law Commission people. inevitably exclude disabled ‘Disabled People in Britain 1995 First TUC Disability Brings in new protection for disabled 1899 Under the Act, 50,000 children and 500,000 1921 people and forced them to which abolishes Inclusive subtitles and Discrimination’ people. “outdoor relief” and adults are incarcerated in long stay be dependent. Conference 1966 Members of the Deaf Broadcasting He argues that disability is a civil rights issue instead embarks institutions during the rst half of the 20th Still segregated Campaign lobby television studios across and that only disabled people themselves can 2010 on a strategy of century. The Education Act 2002 1975 the UK to demand signed and subtitled bring about the changes enabling them to A harsh Act building centrally creates 11 categories of 2x Letter launches a news programmes. become fully participating citizens. The County Asylum Act New Association 1913 impairment. Thousands administered movement National demonstrations becomes law. Counties union workhouses, The British Deaf Association is formed by Francis of disabled children Paul Hunt writes to The Power to against the Welfare in England and Wales overseen by local Maginn to protect sign language and promote better Members of the are sent to segregated 1991 The Equality and Guardian newspaper calling Reform Bill are permitted to build Boards of Guardians. education for deaf people. The Central Council for National League schools, Junior Training disabled people for equality for disabled Human Rights institutions to con ne the Disabled is founded of the Blind march Centres and institutions. The British Council of people and asking others Commission replaces “criminal and pauper 1834 1890 to London to Organisations of Disabled Equality not pity lunatics”. to join with him. His letter People (BCODP) is founded as an The second “Block Telethon” lobby takes place on 18th the Disability Rights 1919 protest about 1944 inspires the start of a umbrella group of organisations Attack on disabled July. Thousands of disabled activists converge on LWT Disabled Person’s Direct