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While recognizing the difficulties of such an endeavor, an examination fo the politics of attendant care for the physically handicapped calls for an alliance between union activists & those who organize personal assistance services & consumers as a way to improve care for people with disabilities. A historical review of the disabilities rights movement is provided before exploring how the social model of disablement & the independent living movement have deeply influenced the demands for attendant care services; attention is given to the politics surrounding the thus far not enacted Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Support Act. Problems hampering coalition building between disability rights activists as well as for advocates for the rights of attendants are outlined. D. Edelman

In recent years, an increase in the number of volunteers and volunteer programs has been recorded in Russia. The purpose of the article is to explore the potential for participation of people with disabilities in volunteering practices. The empirical basis of the study is interviews with people with disabilities who have had experience as volunteers. We studied the motivation of volunteers with disabilities and the significance of volunteering for this category of people. The article highlights the benefits provided to organizations that recruit people with disabilities as volunteers, as well as the difficulties that these organizations may face. The relevance of studying the experience of participation of people with disabilities in volunteering practices is due to the fact that volunteering for people with disabilities can be considered not only as a means of rehabilitation and a way of acquiring skills for subsequent employment, but also as an opportunity to provide all possible assistance to others in need, thereby changing paradigm on disability.


English version of the article on pp. 396-401 is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/volunteering-performed-by-people-with-reduced-capabilities/71486.html

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To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past several decades. These gains include the passage of major civil rights legislation and the adoption of the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world, reviewing hundreds of studies and presenting new evidence from analysis of surveys and interviews with disability leaders. It shows the connections among economic, political and social inclusion, and how the experience of disability can vary by gender, race and ethnicity. It uses a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on theoretical models and research in economics, political science, psychology, disability studies, law and sociology

Amid a crisis that has limited access to basic needs for everyone, relatively little attention has focused on the experiences of people with disabilities (PWD). In this piece, the authors compare the experiences of people with disabilities with those without during the coronavirus pandemic to highlight how this marginalized status is reflected in their concerns and fears.

The purpose of the paper is to understand the employment policies related to people with disabilities in Kosovo. Two main methods are used in the paper, first, the method of analysing statistical and administrative data on the situation of persons with disabilities in the labour market, and analysing budget expenditures for disability schemes in Kosovo, and, second, the method of analysing institutional strategies, action plans, and primary and secondary legislation governing the employment of persons with disabilities. The main conclusions of the paper are: (i) Kosovo does not have official statistics regarding the number of persons with disabilities in general, and their situation in the labour market; (ii) expenditure from Kosovo's budget for financing disability schemes has steadily increased in the last three years; (iii) Kosovo has prepared and adopted an advanced legal framework that promotes vocational training, vocational retraining and employment of people with disabilities; iv) Kosovo does not have a strategic document (strategy or action plan) that defines the vision and long-term goal of increasing the employment of persons with disabilities.

The purpose of the paper is to understand the employment policies related to people with disabilities in Kosovo. Two main methods are used in the paper, first, the method of analysing statistical and administrative data on the situation of persons with disabilities in the labour market, and analysing budget expenditures for disability schemes in Kosovo, and, second, the method of analysing institutional strategies, action plans, and primary and secondary legislation governing the employment of persons with disabilities. The main conclusions of the paper are: (i) Kosovo does not have official statistics regarding the number of persons with disabilities in general, and their situation in the labour market; (ii) expenditure from Kosovo's budget for financing disability schemes has steadily increased in the last three years; (iii) Kosovo has prepared and adopted an advanced legal framework that promotes vocational training, vocational retraining and employment of people with disabilities; iv) Kosovo does not have a strategic document (strategy or action plan) that defines the vision and long-term goal of increasing the employment of persons with disabilities.

The purpose of the paper is to understand the employment policies related to people with disabilities in Kosovo. Two main methods are used in the paper, first, the method of analysing statistical and administrative data on the situation of persons with disabilities in the labour market, and analysing budget expenditures for disability schemes in Kosovo, and, second, the method of analysing institutional strategies, action plans, and primary and secondary legislation governing the employment of persons with disabilities. The main conclusions of the paper are: (i) Kosovo does not have official statistics regarding the number of persons with disabilities in general, and their situation in the labour market; (ii) expenditure from Kosovo's budget for financing disability schemes has steadily increased in the last three years; (iii) Kosovo has prepared and adopted an advanced legal framework that promotes vocational training, vocational retraining and employment of people with disabilities; iv) Kosovo does not have a strategic document (strategy or action plan) that defines the vision and long-term goal of increasing the employment of persons with disabilities.

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to examine disaster justice for people with disabilities (PWD).Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the capability approach, the article explores distributive injustice that PWD face in dealing with disasters. It discusses procedural justice with a focus on the agency of PWD and their participation in decision-making processes concerning disaster risk reduction.FindingsIt argues that disaster injustice faced by PWD can be construed as the inequalities of capabilities that they experience in coping with disasters. Furthermore, although social structures play an important role in creating and perpetuating disaster injustice, PWD, as agents of change, have power to transform social structures that, in turn, bring about justice for themselves.Originality/valueThe article raises the need for considering the equality of capabilities and human agency in achieving disaster justice for PWD.

In this paper, we relied on co-researching with persons with disabilities in Ukraine not as a means of understanding the epidemiology of this disease, or of its impact on human health. We approached COVID-19 and the Ukrainian authorities' response to the pandemic as proxy, or a magnifying glass, to better understand the everyday life of persons with disabilities in Ukraine, and to explore how things could and should be done differently in the context of public health or other emergencies. The pandemic unsettled and disrupted the meanings of personal space and time for virtually everyone across the world; it unmasked, reinforced and reconfigured existing inequalities, cascading them into further injustices of (im)mobility and access. This is especially true for persons with disabilities. Kennedy-Macfoy uses an analogy in relation to COVID-19. She describes COVID-19 as a 'looking glass'. Our 'COVID-19 as a looking glass' findings presented in both parts of the project report paint a picture of entrenched economic and social deprivations experienced by people with disabilities in Ukraine, patterned by the intersecting and reinforcing inequalities of gender, age, locality, displacement, and socio-economic status, and exacerbated rather than created by the pandemic. This article is devoted to the second part of the extensive study 'The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine'. In this article, the authors elaborate on the methodology of the second phase of the study and the views of people with disabilities on the issues of communication about the COVID pandemic and access to medical care during a pandemic for people with disabilities.