Areas of interest include disease, illness, health, and disability; violence, trauma, and power relations; and the cultures of biomedical science and technology and of the clinic, as these are represented and interpreted in verbal, visual, and material texts.
Evidence shows that the most disadvantaged children – their disadvantage due to poverty, ethnic and linguistic minority status, gender discrimination, remoteness, disability, violence, and HIV/AIDS status – experience the most dramatic gains from good quality Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programs.
Some courses included special topics (like violence among individuals with disabilities, violence within the workplace, the role of the media, women's health and social policy).
We frequently hear tragic news about accidents, disabilities, violence towards and deaths of Nepalese migrants in the Gulf countries from national as well as international newspapers.
This was followed by a series of presentations and discussions, supported by UNICEF and partners, focused on some of the issues facing children in Malaysia today, such as out-of-school children; disabilities; violence; and vulnerable communities.
Haitian children and young people aged 5 to 24 shared their views on issues affecting them such as gender, disabilities, violence and abuse, disaster risk reduction, and their own rights and responsibilities post-earthquake as their country emerges from recent earthquakes at a series of focus group discussions held throughout the country between 26 February and 5 March.
The vulnerability of women with disability to violence is compounded by economic dependency; social isolation; the perception that women with disability will not report violence; women's difficulties in physically defending themselves; and their exclusion from violence prevention programs [ 12, 19– 219.
However, few studies have used ACASIs with people with disabilities and ACASIs have not been used to investigate the relationship between disability, interpersonal violence (IPV), and physical and psychological health among people with developmental disabilities (PWDD).
If you haven't read her powerful articles on the ABC's Ramp Up website, and The Drum, dealing with disability and violence against women, do yourself a favour – go and read them now!
Under the draft terms of reference, the royal commission will look at what governments, institutions and the community should do to prevent and better protect people with disability from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Legacy of War currently has plans to document stories in Angola, the UK, Colombia, Laos, Vietnam, Lebanon, Egypt, the US, DRC and Northern Ireland, covering topics such as long-term refugees, PTSD, disability, sexual violence, Agent Orange, unexploded bombs and landmines, as well as the rehabilitation of child soldiers.
