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
• Loyola Law School - Disability Rights Legal Center
• 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)

C:  Journals

We have conducted a review of disability related journals, and have brought them together in one document, noting where you can access them - both as a student user here on campus or as a external user. 

List of Disability Journals

Please send comments or additions to info.cdlp@nuigalway.ie

D: CDLP REFERENCE LIBRARY

The Centre of Disability Law and Policy has its own growing Reference Library. The document below is intended to facilitate reference by anyone needing to use our library for reference or research. Last updated in January 2012.

The Library has been catalogued in two ways to make it easier to search. Both catalogues are available below.

Using CDLP Library

The Library has been catalogued by the book’s Jurisdiction. Each Jurisdiction has been given a number  (table of Jurisdictions and corresponding numbers shown in PDF ’Using CDLP Library’) and then the books have been catalogued alphabetically by the author’s surname. E.g. 4.B =" " The EU – Disability and Policy in General; Blatt

Catalogued by Jurisdiction

The Library has also been catalogued by topic. Each topic has a colour (table of topics and corresponding colour are shown in PDF ’Using CDLP Lib’) and the books are colour coded by their topic.

Catalogued by Topic

E: DISABILITY RIGHTS DIGITAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

As a joint project between researchers at NUI Galway and DREAM, the Disability Rights Digital Bibliography seeks to provide a single point of contact for academic references in disability rights. The bibliography was compiled based on individual contributions from researchers in seven research institutions throughout Europe. The bibliographies were established based on the thematic interests of the researchers and represent a wide array of areas impacting disability in Europe and internationally. Each bibliography is available as an accessible Microsoft Word document as well as a Research Information Systems (RIS) format which can be imported into most reference management software applications. RIS files may not reflect all of the citations contained in the Word documents as some citations were not able to be converted.

• e-Accessibility (Word) / e-Accessibility (RIS)
• Disability Rights and the CRPD (Word) / Disability Rights and the CRPD (RIS)
• Disability Theory (Word) / Disability Theory (RIS)
• Indicators and Monitoring of Human Rights (Word) / Indicators and Monitoring of Human Rights (RIS)
• ‌ (Word) / Legal Capacity (RIS)
• Medicalization of Disability (Word) / Medicalization of Disability (RIS)
• Methodology for Research Disability (Word) / Methodology for Research Disability (RIS)
• Non-Discrimination (Word) / Non-Discrimination (RIS)
• Treaty Interpretation (Word) / Treaty Interpretation (RIS)
• Web Accessibility (Word) / Web Accessibility (RIS)

We want to encourage our users interested in contributing further to this initiative to contact us.

Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets or DREAM is a training network for early stage researchers stemming from the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network Funding Programme. The primary aim of DREAM is to professionally develop and educate the next generation of disability policy researchers and entrepreneurs to assist the EU and its Member States in their efforts to implement the UN CRPD at EU and Member State levels. This will involve exploring options for European Union disability law and policy reform in light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.