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DCDD Newsletter 20
June 2010
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Contents
How inclusive will Dutch Development Cooperation be?
The DCDD International lobby venture benefits CREATE
The voice of 650 million times one
Young people as world citizens
Will the Netherlands finally ratify the convention?
EU development cooperation; does disability count?
DCDD update
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How inclusive will Dutch development cooperation be?
What have we achieved with 60 years of development cooperation and which direction should we take? In the last 6 months Dutch development cooperation has been a hotly discussed topic. On June 9th we will have elections. This is a good opportunity to lobby for more inclusion of people with a disability in Dutch development cooperation. Read all
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The DCDD International lobby venture benefits CREATE
Training in disability and rehabilitation issues is one of the main objectives for CBR Education and Training for Empowerment (CREATE), a South Africa based NGO. CREATE works with a variety of stakeholders, including people with disabilities, community leaders, professionals in health and education, municipalities and government departments. Another major area of their work is advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities. Following the meeting of the international lobby venture in the Netherlands in 2006, and the very inspiring presentations by Lydia La Riviere-Zydel, CREATE started a project to lobby for South Africa to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Since the beginning of 2007, this advocacy project has developed and grown and into advocacy for the implementation of the CRPD as South Africa ratified the Convention in November 2007 Read all
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“The voice of 650 million times one”
“The handicap is in your environment, which decides what you can and can’t do”
The premiere of “The voice of 650 million times one” was on June 15. This documentary, made by Marijn Poels and VSO, provides an image of the lives of different people with a disability. The people living in Kenya and Vietnam struggle with their disability and poverty. This creates extra problems in access to work, healthcare and education. The documentary shows what it means to survive in an environment that is hardly capable of dealing with disabled people. Stigma and exclusion are part of every day life. Read all
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Young people as world citizens
DCDD has a programme called “Young people as world citizens”. In this programme DCDD uses the documentary “Nothing About Us”, the training package “Nothing About Us” and two youth events to reach Dutch youth with a disability in order to teach them more about and get in touch with development work. The documentary in combination with the training package is being taught by guest lecturers from DCDD at several high schools which (also) teach pupils with a disability. Until today lessons were given at nine different schools throughout the Netherlands. And many more are on the list to receive the lessons in the new school year Read all
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Will the Netherlands finally ratify the convention?
On the 11th of May Mr. Ab Klink, the minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, promised ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). He said that the ministry will submit a law proposal for ratification to the Chamber before the summer. He stressed that the Dutch Council of the Chronically Ill and the Disabled (in Dutch: CG-Raad) and other concerned parties, including persons with disabilities, will be involved in further steps Read all
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DCDD Update
COLUMN by Amber Bindels and Tio Mulukken
Perspective of the Youth
Two young voices, representing the "North" and the "South", react on a given statement:
Young people have no influence on development cooperation Read all
COMING UP
Youth Event DCDD Move Your World, “What Can You Do?"
23 September (10:00-15:00), Kinderrechtenhuis Leiden
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EU development cooperation; does disability count?
Europe has declared 2010 to be the year against poverty and social exclusion. It is a good occasion to look at the European policy towards a group that knows only too well what poverty and social exclusion mean: people in developing countries living with a disability. Does European development aid reach people like Lila Maya in Nepal, who became blind as a baby and was isolated and mistreated until a local NGO helped her set up her business? Or Ricardo in Mozambique, who never went to school because of his paralyzed legs? Read all
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Editorial committee: Kathleen Asjes, Jeanet de Jong, Letty Darwish, Carine Munting
Editor: Carine Munting
Lay out: Carine Munting, Monique Verwey
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