UNESCO

Disability assessment capacity building workshop for service providers held

The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa supported the National Association of Societies for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH) in partnership with the Zimbabwe National Association for Mental ...
HelpAge International

New capacity-building programme to deliver better humanitarian response for older people and people with disabilities

HelpAge is starting a three-year programme to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian agencies to deliver age and disability inclusive emergency response, as part of the innovative portfolio of ...
The Guardian

Mental disability, state power and the capacity to decide

Can the state force a mentally disabled woman to use contraception? How should a judge decide whether a woman in an abusive relationship has the capacity to make decisions about her own body? What is ...
The Guardian

Younger disability pension recipients' capacity to work to be scrutinised

Budget measure to cut welfare spending could affect 30,000 people under 35 Younger people receiving the disability support pension are set to have their ability to work reviewed, under measures to ...
Medical Xpress

Early onset of menopause linked to reduced work capacity and increased risk of disability pension, finds Finnish study

A recent study conducted by the University of Oulu, Finland, has revealed that early onset of menopause is associated with reduced work capacity among women at the age of 46. The research further ...
BMJ

Exercise therapy for functional capacity in chronic diseases: an overview of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

Correspondence to Professor Urho M Kujala, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Rautpohjankatu 8, P.O. Box 35, Jyväskylä, Finland FI-40014; Urho.M.Kujala{at}jyu.fi Objective ...
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NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

This week the government unveiled plans to reduce the number of people in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 160,000 over the next four years, a decision NDIS Minister Mark Butler has ...
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WODAO enhances capacity of civil society partners on women with disabilities

Ho, Sept. 24, GNA – Women with Disability Development and Advocacy Organisation (WODAO), a disability development and advocacy not-for-profit organisation has opened a training section for its ...
Ghanaweb.com

Disability and Advocacy organisation strengthens capacity of women with disabilities in Ho

Madam Veronica Denyo Kofiedu, President of Women with Disability Development and Advocacy Organisation (WODAO), says strengthening the capacity of women, and especially those with disabilities, can ...
Irish Examiner

Three years after ratifying disability convention, Ireland must commence capacity legislation so people can live full lives

Three years ago this month, and 11 years after it had been an early signatory, Ireland finally ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD is an ...