[laptop-accessibility] Read the RatifyNow Blog Swarm 2008!

[Andrea Shettle]

 From Australia ... from the USA ... from India ... from New Zealand ... 
from Fiji ... from the Philippines ...

Writers and bloggers from around the world joined together to help 
celebrate and promote the first legally binding international human 
rights instrument to protect the rights of people with disabilities -- 
the international disability rights treaty, called the Convention on 
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

They celebrated by writing blog posts for the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 
2008, which can now be read at
http://ratifynow.org/2008/03/29/ratifynow-crpd-blog-swarm-2008/

What did they write about?  Some of the topics include ...

... The story of one advocate who watched the birth of the CRPD among 
grassroots advocates with disabilities and others in the 1990s ...
... How the CRPD could deliver new hope for people in India with mental 
disabilities ...
... How the CRPD represents an evolution from the charity/medical model 
of disability to the social or human rights-based model ...
... How the CRPD could make travel go a little more smoothly for 
tourists with disabilities ...
... Why the CRPD matters for people who use personal assistance 
services or who are seeking the freedom to explore their own sexual 
expression ...
... An allegorical tale about farmers, spoons, and plows: Why the CRPD 
is well worth celebrating and why our work isn't done just because the 
CRPD is about to take full legal force ...
... And more ...

All at the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008, and all available by 
following the link to:

http://ratifynow.org/2008/03/29/ratifynow-crpd-blog-swarm-2008/

Celebrate and learn about the CRPD through the RatifyNow CRPD Blog 
Swarm 2008.

Then invite other people to do the same.  Please circulate this notice 
or post it at your blog or web site -- with, of course, a link to the 
blog swarm at

http://ratifynow.org/2008/03/29/ratifynow-crpd-blog-swarm-2008/