Course: Disability and a Good Life: Working with Disability

In the previous step, you learned that human rights build on ideas of human diversity, as they are a set of rights afforded to all people by virtue of being …

The purpose of the above video is to introduce why human rights have been important to humans in general, and to disabled people in particular. The video includes Rosemary Kayess …

This video is Part 2 in our case study of AKASA, an organisation for women with disability in rural Sri Lanka, headed by N.G. Kamalawathie (Kamala). As Dinesha explains, women …

Last week, we saw that valuing human diversity goes hand-in-hand with movements towards greater social inclusion for people with disabilities and is essential to working towards a good life for …

In this step we explore the importance of the international human rights framework in local contexts, and the challenges that remain in creating change at the national, local and personal …

In 2006 the UN drafted a human rights treaty specifically intended to protect the rights of people with disabilities: the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). …

Before we look in more detail at Human Rights and in particular at the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we will explore discrimination as one of …

Now that we’ve talked a little bit about living a good life, and about diversity, inclusion, and belonging, let’s bring these different ideas together. In the above video, various people …

Throughout this course we will use AKASA, an organisation for women with disabilities in Sri Lanka, as a case study for working with disability. This week, AKASA director N.G. Kamalawathie …

In the previous step, we explored our diverse understandings of a good life. In this step, we explore: how disability is a dimension of human diversity; how valuing human diversity …

Throughout the course a diverse group of people with different impairments will talk about their lives and experiences being disabled. Some are invited experts. Others have agreed to tell us …

Throughout this week we have been exploring how important it is to value human diversity. In this step we look at different perspectives on diversity and how these perspectives can …

In the video, we hear our guest presenters talk about their experiences of diversity, inclusion and belonging. Antoni talks about his parents’ acceptance of him as being “no different” from …

In this step Kelley Johnson and Louisa Smith, two of the Educators on this course, discuss the words inclusion and belonging and what they mean in the context of valuing …