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Crises, Conflict and Disability - Ensuring Equality (Paperback)
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Crises, Conflict and Disability - Ensuring Equality (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
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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.
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