Announcements/reports/public interest
Day of human rights
Yes to the UN-convention about the rights of handicapped persons
Petition " Public air law - barrier freedom in the air traffic"
Dementia and civil society - a disputation
World Diabetes Day
In what for a society do we want to live?
From Barrierfreedom to design for all
Day of human rights
The day of humanrights is committed at 10th December and is the anniversary for the general declaration of humanrights, which was adopted on 10th December 1948 by the general assembly of the UN.
Humanrightorganizations like Amnesty International take this day each year to the cause to critically regard the humanrightsituations world-wide and refer to current focuses.
The organization Reporter ohne Grenzen (reporters without borders) distributes annually the humanrightprice at this day.
The European parliament lends the Sakharov price annually around this day. In Germany, figured out by inquiries admits, only a few citizens know about the day of the humanrights. Both Austria and Switzerland have many actions around the humanrightday each year.
Wiki: de.wikipedia.org
Here you can read the complete Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Yes to the UN-convention about the rights of handicapped persons
Yes to the UN-convention about the rights of handicapped persons. Experts still see needs for action in Germany.
The United Nations fixed the rights of humans with handicaps.
© dpa - Report
The experts extensively welcomed the draft law of the Federal Goverment of Germany to the convention of the United Nations about the rights of people with handicaps. Here you can get a German version of the draft law in PDF-format
In a public hearing of the committee for work and social on Monday, 24th November 2008, it was said, in the obstruction right convention of the United Nations obstruct-political recommendations the goal was given that humans with handicaps can sully share at the society.
Internet: www.bundestag.de (Most parts of this website are only in German)
Petition " Public air law - barrier freedom in the air traffic"
In the meanwhile flying is so normal as car- and; train driving - for nearly all humans in Europe. Not so for humans with mobility restrictions. So this person's group do not have a chance to visit a toilet on short and medium range flights even after the entry into the flight regulation of the European Union from July 2008.
European airlines - under these also the German Lufthansa - deny mobility-reduced passengers till today the entrance to a toilet. Two or three hours, sometimes even longer they are expected to visit no toilet. Who answers the question of the Stewarts " Do you have to visit a toilet in this time? " with " Yes", can go directly leave the Plane. He utterly doesnt get transported.
Also with announcements before airlines deny having a so-called on-board wheelchair on board. This would make the transfer from the seat to the toilet possible. So answers the German Lufthansa for example in an email of 9th Januar 2008 laconic: "Indeed unfortunately even with advanced notification its not possible to supply an on-board wheelchair on short-distance flights" and cynical insure further " the fact that we do everything for it so that your journeys flow smoothly". Until today the German Lufthansa refuses a clear promise that it makes if necessary an on-board wheelchair available.
Source: http://www.rechtaufklo.de/ (This website iss only in German available)
A flight, on which several hours no toilet can be used, cannot run "unobstructed" and misses central needs of passengers. Imagine to be stucked three hours in an elevator - that´s about the time, that the German and European airlines expect their mobility-reduced passengers to use no toilet.
With this background I submitted a petition to the German Federal Parliament, which was now is published and has a six weeks subscription period (till 19th December 2008).
Here you can sign (only in German) the petition!
further background information under www.rechtaufklo.de (sorry. only in German)
Dementia and civil society - a disputation
Today dementia still is brought up for discussion under the aspect by illness. Therefore we understand the concerned as „a dementia patient “and regard the medical profession and care forces as primarily „responsible “person's group.
The authors point out another perspective: They regard the dementia from a civilian-social point of view. In the center thereby the role of humans with dementia is located as citizens of a community. The book invites to a discussion about „a dementia-friendly “community and gives suggestions for change processes on local level.
Peter Wißmann/Reimer GronemeyerDemenz und Zivilgesellschaft –
eine Streitschrift (Dementia and civil society - a disputation
With a preface of Peter J. Whitehouse and others and an interview with Thomas Klie 2008
207 sides, 21,90 Euro
ISBN 978-3-940529-16-9 This book is only in German available
You receive the purchase order form as pdf file here
World Diabetes Day
The world diabetes day was proclaimed for the first time 1991 as a reaction of the world-wide rising number of humans with diabetes from the Internationalen Diabetes-Föderation (international diabetes Federation, IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2007 the World diabetes Day is also a day of the United Nations, which adopted the resolution 61/225 on 20 December 2006.
With this UN-resolution for the first time an not-infectious illness is classified just as large danger for the health of the world population classified as instance for the sticking on diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
The world diabetes day is allways on 14th November. The date reminds of the birthday of Frederick G. Banting, who discovered 1921 the vital hormone insulin together with Charles Herbert Best.
Answers to questions to the world diabetes day you can find on this Side. (only in German available)
Homepage: www.diabsite.de
In what for a society do we want to live?
Under this current question stands the largest clearing-up project, which started the action "humans together" with many cooperation partners in Berlin.
Also in 2008 humans in germany are invited to work together on the future of the society.
This happens in the Internet,and in the neighbourhood, when the volunteer-data base projects and honorary coworkers look for each other and find each other. In the context of their own partner advancement program so far 2,500 projects were supported, which make themselves strong for social sharing locally.
Participant inside select there answers whether as general desires, conceptions or utopias want to be formulated, or in discussions around concrete political topics and concepts to take part would like. All answers and discussion contributions can be commentated by other visitors.
Internet: dieGesellschafter.de
From Barrierfreedom to design for all
Under the title " From barrierfreedom to the Design for all - experiences from research and practice" at the end of 2007appeared volume 38 of the working group applied geography, which was developed together with European Institut Design for all in Germany registered association (EDAD). On approximately 190 sides this volume refects the experiences from research and practice regarding the advancement of the concept to the barrier freedom to a Design for all since the year 2003.
The publication can be ordered for the price of 15 EUROS (plus value added tax and dispatch) from the working group used geography of the University of Münster over the form of contact n nullbarriere.de (only in german).
Internet: nullbarriere.de (only in german)
Further interesting writings and brochures in the Adobe pdf format, the topic meeting references concerned find you on the web page of the EDAD: www.design-fuer-alle.de (only in german)
See also " Barrier-free information technology regulation/conditions": www.barrierefreies-webdesign.de (only in german)