Crises, Conflict and Disability: Ensuring Equality

ISBN-13: 9780415811651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 260 str.

David Mitchell; Valerie Karr

Opis

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, discussing issues such as:

• How can national laws, policies, and regulations provide guidance, methods and strategies to integrate and coordinate inclusive emergency management?
• What should people with disabilities know in order to be prepared for emergency situations? What lessons have we learned from past experiences?
• What are the current shortfalls (physical and cultural) that put people with disabilities at risk during emergencies and what can be done to improve these situations (e.g. through new technologies and disaster planning)?
• How does disability affect people's experiences as refugees and other displaced situations; what programmes and best practices are in place to protect and promote their rights during their period of displacement?
• How must disabled people with disabilities be factored in to the resettlement and rebuilding process; does an opportunity for ensuring universal access exist in the rebuilding process?
• What is the impact of disasters and conflicts on such special populations as disabled women, disabled children, and those with intellectual disabilities?

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.

Spis treści

Preface  Hassan Ali Bin Ali  Foreword  Baroness Amos  1. Introduction  Valerie Karr and David Mitchell  Part 1: Overview  2. Disability, Natural Disasters and Emergency Situations: The Work of the United Nations  Akiko Ito  3. War, Law and Disability: Ensuring Equality in Situations of Crisis  Mary Crock, Naomi Hart and Ron Mccallum  4. Mainstreaming Disability into Humanitarian Responses  Armando J. Vasquez Barrios  5. Bridging the Humanitarian-Disability Divide: From Gaps to Changes in Policy and Practice  Dale Buscher and Emma Pearce  6. Participatory Strategies for Raising the Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities During Crises, Conflicts or Natural Disasters  Jhalukpreya Surujlal and Rolf Gaede  7. Women with Disabilities Leading the Way Toward Inclusive Emergency Response  Susan Dunn and Susan Sygall  8. Excluded from a Health Crisis? HIV and Persons with Disabilities  Paul Rohleder, Arne Henning Eide and Leslie Swartz  9. Disability In Bangladesh: The Evolution of Programmes and Services  Saima Hossain  Part 2: Disability and Disaster  10. Natural Hazards: Enhancing Disaster Preparedness and Resilience of People with Disabilities  Badaoui Rouhban  11. Practical Strategies to Meet the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Disaster Management Initiatives  Janet Njelesani, Shaun Cleaver and Myroslava Tataryn  12. Shelter for People with Disabilities  Mike Meaney  13. The ERASE-STRESS(ES) Programmes: Teacher-Delivered Universal School-Based Programmes in the Aftermath of Disasters  Rony Berger  14. GETTING REAL Promising Practices In Disability Inclusive Emergency Management for the Whole Community: A Case Study of the United States  Marcie Roth  15. Australia Developing Inclusive Emergency Management  Susan Stork-Finlay  16. The Canterbury Earthquakes: Preparedness, Response and Recovery  Jill Mitchell  17. Japan’s 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami 2011, Much Higher Fatality Rate Among Persons with Disabilities: The Paradox of Community-Living and Disaster  Nagase Osamu  18. Environmental Degradation and Disability: Scattered Research, Policy and Practice  Mirella Schwinge and Michelle Proyer  Part 3: Disability and Conflict  19. Getting Disability on the Post-Conflict Agenda: The Role of a Disability Movement  Rebecca Irvine  20. Intellectual Disabilities in Humanitarian Assistance Policy and Practice: The Need to Consider Diversity within Disability  Brigitte Rohwerder  21. Children with Disabilities: Neglected During Peacetime, Forgotten During Conflict  Andrea Canepa  22. Sectarianism, Sanctions and Invasion: The Challenge of Promoting Educational Equality in Iraq  Susie Miles and Alison Alborz  23. The Past Dividing the Present: Nicaragua’s Legacy of War Shaping Disability Rights Today  Stephen Meyers  24. Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Challenges of Refugees with Disabilities and their Families in Uganda  Eunice Owiny and Yusrah Nagujja  25. Disability in New Zealand Resettlement of Refugees: The New Hope for Equity  Celia Brandon and Alia Bloom  26. The July-August 2006 War in Lebanon: The Impact on Persons with Disabilities  Nawaf Kabbara and Jahda Abou Khalil  27. Conclusion  David Mitchell and Valerie Karr