Persons with disabilities benefit business – it is time for companies to give something back” Press Release, Cape Town, 20 April 2007 The CEO of the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities, Mr AK Dube, has challenged the private sector to acknowledge and reward organisations of persons with disabilities promoting economic development and mainstream business. Speaking at a special ceremony today to reward the Magnum Shield security company personnel based at the Pinnacle Building in Cape Town, A. K. Dube
53 countries have announced that they will sign the new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at a ceremony to be held at the UN General Assembly hall on Friday, 30 March, according to the United Nations. We at the Secretariat of the African Decade are happy to note that the following African countries will sign the Convention when it opens for signature by States and regional integration organizations: Algeria, Cape Verde, Republic of Congo, Ghana,
This article was published on October 4 2006 in the online publication Pambazuka News, under the headline "Protecting the rights of the disabled". Pambazuka news is "a weekly forum for social justice in Africa" (www.pambazuka.org). Around 60 million persons with disabilities live in Africa . These individuals are barely visible in most African societies, and rarely appear to have voices or opinions about general issues that are brought to our attention by the media. The
This article was published under the title "HIV strategies ignore the disabled" in the Cape Times, a South African daily newspaper, on March 29, 2007 (www.capetimes.co.za) and on the IOL website, www.iolhivaids.co.za. Everywhere you go in South Africa there are posters on HIV and AIDS. The people behind these posters go to great pains to include people who are white and black, people who are urban and rural, young and old - to catch the