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The 25th Annual Pacific Rim Conference on Disabilities, 2009: Working towards a brighter future This conference will be held on May 4-5th at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. PacRim is one of the worlds top rated international educational offerings in the field of disabilities. It will include presentations from policymakers, community leaders, advocates, and nationally recognized professionals. This year we have a special focus on girls and women, indigenous peoples, and veterans. Other topic areas include autism, deaf and hearing impaired, disability rights, employment, the economy and poverty, Universal Design and more. Together We want your proposals! The call for papers is open until December 12. To learn more visit: www.pacrim.hawaii.edu, email prinfo@hawaii.edu or call us at (808)956-7539. Deadline for papers: December 12, 2008. Conference dates: May 4-5, 2009
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. There were 82 signatories to the Convention, 44 signatories to the Optional Protocol, and 1 ratification of the Convention. This is the highest number of signatories in history to a UN Convention on its opening day. It is the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st century and is the first human rights convention to be open for signature by regional integration organizations. It entered into force in April of 2008 when Ecuador was the 20th country to ratify it. A total of 8 Latin American countries have ratified it, making Latin America the region that has given this treaty its greatest support. The Convention marks a "paradigm shift" in attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. It takes to a new height the movement from viewing persons with disabilities as "objects" of charity, medical treatment and social protection towards viewing persons with disabilities as "subjects" with rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives based on their free and informed consent as well as being active members of society. Entered into effect: April, 2008
Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo, Goldman Sachs and Google are recruiting students with disabilities Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo, Goldman Sachs, and Google in partnership with Lime are recruiting students with disabilities at campus recruiting events across the United States. They have openings for internships and full-time positions in accounting, compliance, computer design, finance, global markets, human resources, investment banking, investment management, legal, marketing, operations, research, sales/business development, securities, strategy, supply chain, technology, wealth management and more. Dates: September and October 2008, depending on location (see website to find date in your city)
Disability Mentoring Day Disability Mentoring Day promotes career development for students and job-seekers with disabilities through job shadowing and hands-on career exploration. With leadership, coordination and resource materials from AAPD, local communities around the country organize their own activities to bring students and employers together for informational sessions about career opportunities and one-on-one mentoring with volunteers at public and private places of employment. If you would like to participate in Disability Mentoring Day 2008 in your region of the country, as either a mentee or employer mentor, please visit the AAPD website and see the DMD fact sheet and Local Coordinators information. In March 2006, Proyecto Visión did a complete writeup of Disability Mentoring Day. Read it in our archives. Date: October 15, 2008
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the World Institute on Disability at Ever Widening Circle with The Blind Boys of Alabama Join us for the musical event of the fall season! Now in its 10th year, WID's Ever Widening Circle will be the best yet with an evening of entertainment provided by world-class performers, the Grammy Award-winning talents of The Blind Boys of Alabama, revered worldwide for their unique blend of the sacred and the secular. Members of the Bay Area community will come together to reaffirm our pride in being home to the internationally recognized World Institute on Disability in the ballroom of the downtown Oakland Marriott on Friday, November 7, 2008. The evening will include a retrospective of 25 years of WID's accomplishments, and attendees will sample offerings from "Sweet Indulgence"-- sumptuous desserts, coffee and tea.
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