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posted on April 5, 2011 - 4:24pm
LL. M. Sisay (Alemahu) Yeshanew defended his doctoral thesis on ESC rights in Africa - please see the link to Åbo Akademi University pages for more information. This is good information for disability rights, too! Thanks Sisay! http://www.abo.fi/public/News/Item/item/4066
We had international guests for the abovementioned seminars including UN Special Rapporteur on Disability, Mr. Shuaib Chalklen, Ms. Maria Reina (Global Partnership on Disability and Development) and Mr. Kudakwashe Dube (Secretariat of the African Decade on Disability). The former seminar was held in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the latter in the Threshold Association. Both seminars were open to everybody, which I thought was great. The guests were the same but the profile of the participants were different from each other: the first were attended by DPOs, government officials, academics, staff of Embassies, while the latter mainly by DPOs. In both seminars, around 40-50 persons were present.
Jukka's Research Assistant's Kaddu's Report posted on March 13, 2011 - 10:13pm
Hi! Sorry it has been quite quiet here in the blog recently. I am finalizing my thesis, and so is Edson. Hisayo is still taking care of her children at home. So it has been a bit silent period in the research project. I want to publish the report by my Research Assistant Z. Kaddu from last year. Thanks Kaddu for this, and for everything else. It all is finally coming to an end, perhaps! RESEARCH ASSISTANTS REPORT REGARDING THE RESEARCH PROCESS RESULTING INTO THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FIRST DRAFT OF JUKKA KUMPUVUOR’S DOCTORAL THESIS Kaddu Zachary(Research Assistant)M.A. Human Rights (Candidate)B. Social Work & AdministrationMakerere University, KampalaUganda Introduction
In Memory of Ruth Nakamanyisa posted on November 12, 2010 - 3:16pm
I heard the sad news one after another. My dear friend, Ruth, passed away. I’m devastated for the news. Yesterday, I mentioned Ruth when writing about James: she worked for me as a research assistant for the Abilis evaluation study. We got along very well during this study and became very good friends. I always liked to communicate with her as she was very thoughtful and she made me feel important. I hope she felt the same.
In Memory of James Mwandha posted on November 11, 2010 - 3:26pm
I heard the very sad news this morning that my friend and internationally well-known disability activist, Honourable James Mwandha, passed away. He is the very person who inspired me to start this research on disability in Uganda.
Mr.Shuaib Chalklen visited Finland for the first time. Finnish DPOs (organisations of persons with disabilities) (and a few others including myself!) had the chance of meeting with him to discuss hot issues in Finnish and global disability movement in the premise of the Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities on 25.5. Around 20 representatives of DPOs attended the meeting.
"Lives of Deaf Children in Uganda" Video posted on May 4, 2010 - 1:28pm
Finnish Federation of the Deaf Association was commissioned by the Finnish Foreign Ministry to prepare a TV documentary on deaf children in Uganda, and Hisayo has been part of the production team. Now the DVD is ready.
Human Rights and Disability -Course in March 2010 posted on April 25, 2010 - 1:44pm
<-- Course participants visiting NUDIPU, an umbrella organization of persons with disabilities in UgandaOur project organized in a fruitful cooperation with the North-South-South Sustainable Development and Human Rights Network a one-week course at Makerere University during 15-19 March 2010.
Gongratulations Kaddu! posted on February 20, 2010 - 11:55am
Kaddu Zachary (Jukka Kumpuvuori's Research Assistant) graduated (Bachelor of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University) in January 2010. The research team gongratulates! Kaddu gave a lecture on Daily Lives of Persons with Disabilities in Uganda in the end of 2009 in Turku, Finland.
Course Teachings posted on January 19, 2010 - 5:31pm
The Blog has been rather quiet, since we have been busy with course teaching. Courses on human rights and disability were part of the research project plan, and we already accomplished a course in Turku (Åbo Akademi, the Institute for Human Rights 30 November - 8 December 2009) with around 30 participants and will continue in Kampala (Makerere University) on 15-19 March 2010. Waiting forward to that course! Students in Moot-Court Turku! (Photo Jukka Kumpuvuori)