Uganda has the highest proportion of disabled people in government. Joseph Walugembe and Julia Peckett explore what this means.
November 2005's Issue
The struggle for equal rights for persons with disabilities often comes up against harsh economic realities in the Majority World. Cash shortages are what governments hide behind when they deny proper participation to a full 10 per cent of citizens, but they are by no means the only barrier disabled people want to knock down. Entrenched prejudice, ignorance and indifference often leave people with disabilities stranded outside society.
As disabled peoples’ organizations gain strength and begin to network in the Majority World, the momentum for change keeps building. This month’s NI will provide a space for persons with disabilities from a range of backgrounds to have their say.
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Damu Smith
Grassroots organizer Damu Smith has spent his life battling against the odds. Now he’s taking on his two biggest challenges: the US healthcare system (or lack of it) and his own cancer.
- Adam Ma'anit
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Petro- provocation
Iran’s shift away from the petrodollar may hurt the US
- William Clark
- 1 Nov 2005
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Revolución rampista!
When local government had to move out of the way of activists on a mission. Tomás Hernández explains.
- Vanessa Baird and Tomás Hernández
- 1 Nov 2005
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life and The Silver Throat of the Moon by refugee writers
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Nov 2005
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First Person
Pili Akili from Tanzania and Amarakoon Disanayaka Piyasena from Sri Lanka talk about living with mental illness in village communities.
- Dinyar Godrej
- 1 Nov 2005
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Crunch time over Fairtrade mark for Nestlé
Nestlé Fairtrade mockery.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Nov 2005
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Body blows
Disabled women bear the brunt of extreme prejudice in Zimbabwe. Gladys Charowa has seen it all.
- Gladys Charowa
- 1 Nov 2005
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Robots address child abuse
Technology used to help in the campaign against child jockeys
- Radhakrishna Rao
- 1 Nov 2005
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Stuff Pity!
People with disabilities in the Majority World want equal rights. Dinyar Godrej on why there is still much to be done.
- Dinyar Godrej
- 1 Nov 2005
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A Letter to the Prime Minister
A Letter to the Prime Minister directed by Julia Guest.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Nov 2005
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Sri Lankan ecosystems in dire straits
Government to halt a controversial ship canal project.
- Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
- 1 Nov 2005
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The tips are my toes
Mosharraf Hossain on how childhood polio made him determined to shake the complacency of Bangladeshi society.
- Mosharraf Hossain
- 1 Nov 2005
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Come out of the shadows on disability
Beatriz Satizabal has taken the knocks of Colombia’s macho society to emerge as her own woman. Her focus now is independence and changing prejudice.
- Beatriz Satizabal
- 1 Nov 2005
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Garbage blues
Urvashi Butalia visits a friend in Tokyo who is besieged by Japan’s punitive new recycling legislation. Back in Delhi she wonders if the Indian approach to rubbish is any better.
- Urvashi Butalia
- 1 Nov 2005
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‘Drink Coca- Cola’ wall painting
The image that irked Coca- Cola, by Indian photographer
- Sharad Haksar
- 1 Nov 2005
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Bright sparks
A visual celebration of the right to education.
- Julio Etchart, JORGEN SCHYTTE and Paul Quayle
- 1 Nov 2005
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Charmless change
Gentrification has hit the oldest areas of Beirut, to Reem Haddad’s great chagrin.
- Reem Haddad and Sarah John
- 1 Nov 2005
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The North Caspian - what am I bid?
A visit to the new oil frontier in Kazakhstan leaves Horatio Morpurgo wondering where on earth we go from here.
- Horatio Morpurgo
- 1 Nov 2005
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