Resources

Resources

This section contains links to relevant intenational organisations, non-governmental organisations as well as research resources and similar university study centers.

A: Disability Centres

• University College Dublin - Centre for Disability Studies
• Trinity College Dublin - National Institute for Intellectual Disability
• University of Ulster - Professor Roy McConkey
• Burton Blatt Institute
• Harvard Project on Disability
• Cornell University Disability Statistics Research
• Cornell University Employment and Disability Institute
• Syracuse University - Disability Law Abstracts
• Northeastern University School of Law - Human Rights & the Global Economy
• Emory University - Vulnerability and the Human Condition

B: Organisations

• United Nations
  • Enable
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• International Labour Organization - Disability and Work
• World Health Organization - Disabilities
• Organization of American States - Persons with Disabilities
• The World Bank - Disability and Development

European Regional Organisations

• European Union
  • European Union
  • European Commission - Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
• Council of Europe
  • High Commisioner of Human Rights
  • European Social Charter
  • Integration of Persons with Disabilities
• European Court of Human Rights

International Non-Governmental Organisations

• World Blind Union
• World Federation of the Deaf
• Inclusion International
• International Disability Alliance
• Ratify Now
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)
• Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC)
• Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI)