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Crises, conflict and disability : ensuring equality / edited by David Mitchell and Valerie Karr

Published
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge (Publisher), 2014.
Copyright Date
copyright 2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 239 pages).
Additional Creators
Mitchell, David, 1940-2011 and Karr, Valerie
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
PART I. Overview -- War, law and disability : ensuring equality in situations of crisis / Mary Crock, Naomi Hart and Ron McCallum -- Disability, natural disasters, conflict, humanitarian emergencies : the work of the United Nations / Akiko Ito -- Mainstreaming disability into humanitarian responses / Armando J. Vasquez Barrios -- Bridging the humanitarian-disability divide : from gaps to changes in policy and practice / Dale Buscher and Emma Pearce -- Participatory strategies for raising the preparedness of persons with disabilities during crises, conflicts or natural disasters / Jhalukpreya Surujlal and Rolf Gaede -- Women with disabilities leading the way toward inclusive emergency response / Susan Dunn and Susan Sygall -- Excluded from a health crisis? HIV and persons with disabilities / Poul Rohleder, Arne Henning Eide and Leslie Swartz -- Disability in Bangladesh : the evolution of programmes and services / Saima Hossain -- PART II. Disability and disaster -- Natural hazards : enhancing disaster preparedness and resilience of people with disabilities / Badaoui Rouhban -- Practical strategies to meet the rights of persons with disabilities in disaster management initiatives / Janet Njelsani, Shaun Cleaver and Myroslava Tataryn -- Shelter for people with disabilities / Mike Meaney -- The ERASE-STRESS (ES) programmes : teacher-delivered universal school-based programmes in the aftermath of disasters / Rony Berger -- GETTING REAL, promising practices in disability-inclusive emergency management for the whole community : a case study of the United States / Marcie Roth -- Australia developing inclusive emergency management / Susan Stork-Finlay -- The Canterbury earthquakes : preparedness, response and recovery / Jill Mitchell -- Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami : the paradox of community-living and disaster / Nagase Osamu -- Environmental degradation and disability : scattered research, policy and practice / Mirella Schwinge and Michelle Proyer -- PART III. Disability and conflict -- Getting disability on the post-conflict agenda : the role of a disability movement / Rebecca Irvine -- Intellectual disabilities in humanitarian assistance policy and practice : the need to consider the diversity within disability / Brigitte Rohwerder -- Children with disabilities : neglected during peacetime, forgotten during conflict / Andrea Canepa -- Sectarianism, sanctions and invasion : the challenge of promoting educational equality in Iraq / Susie Miles and Alison Alborz -- The past dividing the present : Nicaragua's legacy of war shaping disability rights today / Stephen Meyers -- Caught between a rock and a hard place : challenges of refugees with disabilities and their families in Uganda / Eunice Owiny and Yusrah Nagujja -- Disability in New Zealand resettlement of refugees : the new hope for equity / Celia Brandon and Alia Bloom -- The July-August 2006 war in Lebanon : the impact on persons with disabilities / Nawaf Kabbara and Jahda Abou Khalil -- Conclusion / David Mitchell and Valerie Karr.
Summary
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps, as well as in post-disaster environments. Already subject to severe discrimination in many societies, people with disabilities are often overlooked during emergency evacuation, relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts. Countries party to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities must take all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of people with disabilities during situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies, and natural disasters. Such aid should be designed to support preparedness, response, recovery and rebuilding. This book includes perspectives from around the globe and explores the implications at the policy, programme, and personal level. Spotlighting a pressing issue that has long been neglected in emergency planning fields, this innovative book discusses how to meet the needs of people with disabilities in crises and conflict situations. It is an important reference for all those working in or researching disability and inclusion, and emergency and disaster management, both in developed and developing countries.
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ISBN
9780203069943
9780145811651
Note
Title from resource description page (viewed April 20, 2018).
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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