Resources and Links
Download the United Nation Convention on the Rights for People with Disability. PDF (PDF) (including the Optional Protocol). Download an EasyRead guide (PDF) (2 Mb) to the UN Convention.
Aboriginal Resources and Pathways (National Disability Services): An online resource to assist disability services to improve the delivery of services and support for Aboriginal families.
Journals
Australian Journal of Human Rights
Devoted to human rights developments in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and internationally. The Journal adopts a broad-based multidisciplinary approach to human rights issues. It deals not only with the legal aspects of human rights but also the philosophical, historical, sociological, economic and political dimensions.
Disability & Society
Debate around issues including human rights, discrimination, definitions, policy and practices.
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
International journal which presents findings from original applied research in intellectual disabilities, aimed at an international, multi-disciplinary readership.
Journal of Disability Policy Studies
Ethics, policy, and law related to people with disability. A major focus is quantitative and qualitative policy research.
Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability
This journal of the Australasian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability (ASSID) is an international, multidisciplinary journal in the field of intellectual and developmental disability.
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
This journal focuses on the study of intellectual disability, and includes research relating to biological, educational, genetic, medical, psychiatric, psychological and sociological studies
Journal of Social Policy
This journal carries high quality articles on all aspects of social policy in an international context
Social Policy & Society
This is an international academic journal sponsored by the UK Social Policy Association. The journal contains articles that draw upon contemporary policy-related research and associated developments in the social sciences.
Review of Disability Studies
The journal contains research articles, essays, and bibliographies relating to the culture of disability and people with disabilities.
Newsletters
Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability Newsletter. The "Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability" (APCD) Project is a technical cooperation project between the Government of Japan and the Government of Thailand, which is started in Bangkok on 1 August 2002. The Overall goal of the project is to promote the empowerment of people with disabilities and a barrier-free society in developing countries in the Asia and Pacific Region. The Newsletters are available here
