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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: United Nations questionnaire on COVID-19 and human rights |
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Posted: 27 May 2020, 12:28 pm
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| Twelve United Nations special procedures (Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts, Working Groups) appointed by the UN Human Rights Council are planning separate thematic reports on COVID-19 to be submitted to the HRC and the UN General Assembly. To gather information, they have released a joint qu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: United Nations message on autism and coronavirus (COVID-19) |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020, 9:26 am
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| @cosine, in Switzerland people are told by the government not to go see a doctor unless they are very severely ill with COVID-19-like symptoms or it's an emergency. This leads to doctor's offices being empty and most health-care staff, even at hospitals, off work, waiting for a massive wave of coron... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: United Nations message on autism and coronavirus (COVID-19) |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2020, 9:48 pm
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| @cosine, full support for a Universal Basic Income. Switzerland held a public vote on this a few years back and, of course, rejected it. We are a direct democracy, but people here have a tendency to vote against their own interests. Now, just a few years later, hundreds of thousands of people have l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: United Nations message on autism and coronavirus (COVID-19) |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2020, 7:31 pm
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| The United Nations redesigned its webpage for World Autism Awareness Day. The new link is: https://www.un.org/en/observances/autism-day There's no mention on the new page of the WAAD 2020 theme the UN had announced earlier in March ("The Transition to Adulthood"). The message of the UN Sec... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Answer UN survey on coronavirus & persons with disabilities |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2020, 11:48 am
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| The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reducation (UNDRR) is conducting a survey in order to collect information on the experience of persons with disabilities in the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Deadline: 25 March 2020. Please disseminate widely to autistic persons and others throu... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020, 3:39 pm
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| Misinformation or a proxied email address? On the IDA mailing list, Lucy Richardson (IDA Human Rights Officer) wrote: "Apologies for the error and any inconvenience", so IDA took the blame. My guess is, though, that too many people contacted UN Women directly (she put "Please do not ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020, 2:31 pm
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| Unfortunately, I can't edit my original post anymore. I hope people interested in applying for this opportunity will keep reading through the thread to page 2. Please note: Do not contact the UN Women staff member mentioned in the original message. This appears to have been a misinformation. Instea... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020, 12:19 pm
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| ... A lot of the reporting on the UN is done by journalists who never bother to understand the complexity of these processes. A lot of UN processes are misreported because the sources never bother to fully explain their complexity from the start. It would be nice if those processes weren't kept hid... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020, 11:35 am
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| ... I think your various posts in this thread speak for themselves... Whatever. I am not one to believe someone just because they expect to be believed. So if your recruitment program is legit, I expect to see something about it in the public media. If it does not appear in the public media, then I... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2020, 3:20 pm
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| You are mixing something up. No one country is ever the "head" of any UN agency. The current Executive Director of UN Women is from South Africa. Saudi Arabia was elected a member of the Executive Board of UN Women, one of about forty countries on the Executive Board. Members of the Execu... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2020, 2:39 pm
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| So ... a UN organization that Saudi Arabia is the current head of is seeking or young women below the age of 20, ostensibly for a speaking engagement ... hmm ... No ... So now you're saying that the UN organization is NOT seeking young women, thus contradicting your original statement. Very peculia... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2020, 1:05 am
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| Does a transgender girl with a disability count? My guess is that they would accept applications from trans women. You should contact them directly to be sure. Is this the UN organ that Saudi Arabia is the current head of, or am I mixing that up with some other UN organ? You are mixing something up... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN seeking girls or young women to speak at event (funded) |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 12:42 pm
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| UN Women (the United Nations entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women) is seeking girls or young women with disabilities, below the age of 20, including autistic girls and young women, to be speakers for International Women's Day events in New York City on 6 March 2020. They can be fr... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation about autism |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2019, 2:53 pm
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| Me speaking for Autistic Minority International at the World Health Organization (WHO) on countering vaccine hesitancy and the spread of misinformation about autism by involving actually autistic persons in public campaigns and communication on vaccine safety. An oral intervention at the Global Vacc... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: CALL: Rights of older autistic persons |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2019, 7:29 pm
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| The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities is preparing a report on the rights of older persons with disabilities, to be submitted to the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in October 2019. Concise submissions with input regarding older autistic persons, in... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: UN WAAD 2019: Assistive Technologies, Active Participation |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2019, 7:25 pm
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| The United Nations has announced the theme for this year's UN World Autism Awareness Day, 2 April 2019: "Assistive Technologies, Active Participation" http://www.un.org/en/events/autismday/ They write: "Autism awareness has grown worldwide in recent years. For the United Nations, the ... |
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