Journal Special Issues

Disability Studies Quarterly

Vol 29, No 1 (2009) contains a special section entitled: Selected Papers from UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a Call for Action. The following papers from the conference were included in this issue of DSQ:

• Introduction - Raymond Lang, Maria Kett, Jean-Francois Trani
• Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies for Persons with Disabilities – Jenifer Simpson
• Access to Mainstream Microfinance Services for Persons with Disabilities – Lessons Learned from Uganda - Flavia Nakabuye Bwire, George Mukasa, Roy Mersland
• Usage of quotas in the state budget: A case study of Karnataka in India – Pradeep Kumar
• The Contextual and Cultural Barriers to Equity and Full Inclusive Participation for People Labeled with Disabilities in Bangladesh – Dermot Foley
• The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: From the Perspective of Young People - Nolan Quigley (Editor), Mohamed Saidu Kamara, Yellamma Gangadhar, Daintowon D Paybeyee, Ranjana Chandralal

Disability Studies Quarterly is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, which means anyone can access the articles in it free of charge. Please follow this link to read the special section, which is currently available online: www.dsq-sds.org/issue/view/8

Journal of International Development

Volume 21, Issue 5 (July 2009) includes a ‘Policy Arena’ on disability and international development, which includes an introduction and three papers from the conference. These are as follows:

• Introduction: Disability, development and the dawning of a new convention: A cause for optimism? (p 649-661) – Maria Kett, Raymond Lang, Jean-Francois Trani
• Mainstreaming the rights of persons with disabilities in national development frameworks (p 662-672) - Teresa Njoroge Mwendwa, Ambrose Murangira, Raymond Lang
• Making poverty reduction inclusive: Experiences from Cambodia, Tanzania and Vietnam (p 673-684) - Dominic Fritz, Ursula Miller, Andreas Gude, Andreas Pruisken, Dorothea Rischewski
• Including persons with disabilities in social cash transfer programmes in developing countries (p 685-698) – Kate Gooding and Anna Marriot

Unfortunately, the Journal of International Development is not an open-access journal, and we are not legally allowed to circulate the articles as PDFs. For those who are able to access the journal, please follow this link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5102/home, and search on 'disability' on the top right corner to read the articles.

Alter: European Journal of Disability Research

A whole edition (Volume 3, Issue 3, July – September 09) of this new peer-reviewed journal has been dedicated to the conference. The special issue contains the following articles:

• Editorial – Disability, Poverty, Human Rights and the Need for Accurate Data – Nora Ellen Groce
• Extending the Capability Paradigm to Address the Complexity of Disability – Jean-Luc Dubois and Jean-Francois Trani
• Disability and Poverty – A Survey of World Bank Poverty Assessments and Implications – Jeanine Braithwaite and Daniel Mont
• Occupation, Poverty and Mental Health Improvement in Ghana – William Boyce et al
• Measuring Disability in Censuses – The Case of South Africa – Marguerite Schneider et al
• The United Nations Convention on the Rights and Dignities of Persons with Disability: A Panacea for Ending Disability Discrimination? – Raymond Lang
• Engaging Adolescents with Disabilities in Research – Gayatri Kembhavi and Sheila Wirz

Unfortunately Alter: European Journal of Disability Research is not an open access journal, although it may be possible to access this edition as a ‘free sample issue’. Please follow this link:
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/714030/description#description, then click on ‘free sample issue’ (bottom left hand side) and click on ‘Next vol./iss’ until you reach Vol 3, Issue 3, Jul-Sept 09.