Crises, conflict and disability: ensuring equality

by Karr, Valerie Mitchell, David R.

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Title Statements

Full title :Crises, conflict and disability : ensuring equality / edited by David Mitchell and Valerie Karr.

Summary

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. 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xx, 239 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203069943, 0203069943, 9781135089191, 1135089191, 9781135089207, 1135089205, 9781135089153, 1135089159
oclc:ocn878147943
LC Classification:HV1568
Dewey Decimal:363.34087

PART I. Overview -- -- War, law and disability : ensuring equality in situations of crisis / Mary Crock, Naomi Hart and Ron McCallum -- Disability, natural disasters, conflict, humanitarian emergencies : the work of the United Nations / Akiko Ito -- Mainstreaming disability into humanitarian responses / Armando J. Vasquez Barrios -- Bridging the humanitarian-disability divide : from gaps to changes in policy and practice / Dale Buscher and Emma Pearce -- Participatory strategies for raising the preparedness of persons with disabilities during crises, conflicts or natural disasters / Jhalukpreya Surujlal and Rolf Gaede -- Women with disabilities leading the way toward inclusive emergency response / Susan Dunn and Susan Sygall -- Excluded from a health crisis? HIV and persons with disabilities / Poul Rohleder, Arne Henning Eide and Leslie Swartz -- Disability in Bangladesh : the evolution of programmes and services / Saima Hossain -- -- PART II. Disability and disaster -- -- Natural hazards : enhancing disaster preparedness and resilience of people with disabilities / Badaoui Rouhban -- Practical strategies to meet the rights of persons with disabilities in disaster management initi…

Subjects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure Catastrophes Crises Crises (Sciences sociales) Disability Studies Disabled Persons Disasters Emergency management Études sur le handicap People with Disabilities Personnes handicapées Relief Work SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General