*'The Right to Health of Persons with Disabilities ' by David Werner* at 5 PM (IST) today 10 Mar 2022 lecture ID and link are below.
Zoom Link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83770417300?pwd=bGNud3BnNHpKWXdEbWVhNjA0WXczZz09 *Date: March 10, 2022* *Time: 05:00 pm- 06:00 pm (IST)* *Meeting ID: 8**37 7041 7300* *Passcode: **423041* *Sign language interpretation and closed captioning will be provided for deaf and hard of hearing participants*. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Varsha Gumashta <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 04:34 Subject: REMINDER 'Lecture Today': The Right to Health of Persons with Disabilities ' by David Werner at 5 PM (IST) Dear All, The Centre for Constitutional Rights, a division of Socio Legal Information Centre, has successfully conducted its training programs and lecture series in collaboration with lawyers and activists from leading Civil Liberties organisations sharing their experience with leading cases/litigation on various constitutional rights in their courts. CCRI is hosting a series of lectures on "*Disability Rights and the Law*" which explores the experiences of human rights lawyers and activists on matters concerning rights of persons with disabilities. *The 5th lecture in the series is scheduled on 10.03.2022 *and will be delivered by the veteran and health icon *Mr. David Werner*, Co-founder and Director of HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights). He has been a visiting professor at Boston University’s International School of Public Health. He has worked for more than 50 years in Village Health Care, Community-based Rehabilitation, and Child-to-Child health initiatives in the global south, mainly Mexico. David, who has a physical disability himself (Charot-Marie-Tooth syndrome), has authored and illustrated the handbooks *"Where There Is No Doctor"*(now in over 90 languages),*"Helping Health Workers Learn,"**"Disabled Village Children,"*and *"Nothing About Us Without Us: Developing Innovative Technologies For, By and With Disabled Persons."*He has been a consultant for UNICEF, WHO, the Peace Corps, UNDP, UN-ESCAP, World Bank and various state and federal governments ranging from Mexico to Brazil, India, and Iran. David has received awards and/or fellowships from the World Health Organization, the Macarthur Foundation, among others. For more information, see: http://www.healthwrights.org ; Email: [email protected] Mr. Werner will be discussing, *‘The Right to Health of Persons with Disabilities.’* We invite you to join the session. *Sign language interpretation and closed captioning will be provided for deaf and hard of hearing participants*. The lecture ID and link are below. Zoom Link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83770417300?pwd=bGNud3BnNHpKWXdEbWVhNjA0WXczZz09 *Date: March 10, 2022* *Time: 05:00 pm- 06:00 pm (IST)* *Meeting ID: 8**37 7041 7300* *Passcode: **423041* Hope to have you in the session. Thank You. Regards, Varsha Gumashta Assistant Director Centre for Constitutional Rights Socio-Legal Information Centre (SLIC) 576, Masjid Road, Jangpura Delhi-110014 Phone number: +91 9399507939 On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 14:09, Vaishnavi Jayakumar < [email protected]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: rajive raturi <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 12:50 > Subject: Lecture on Health rights of persons with disabilities 10 March by > David Werner > > > > Dear Friends, > The Centre for Constitutional Rights is organizing the 5th lecture in > the Disability Rights lecture series on ‘The Right to health of > persons with disabilities’. > > Our resource person for this lecture is David Werner. David is an > author and health activist, is co-founder and director of > HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights) and for years > was a visiting professor at Boston University’s International School > of Public Health. A biologist and educator by training, he has worked > for more than 50 years in village health care, community-based > rehabilitation, and Child-to-Child health initiatives in the global > south, mainly Mexico. From 1965 intothey 90s he was a facilitator and > adviser to Project Piaxtla, a pioneering villager-run health program > which contributed to the early conceptualization and evolution of > Primary Health Care (PHC). Out of Piaxtla grew PROJIMO, an innovative > Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) program organized and run by > disabled youth of Western Mexico. > > David, who has a physical disability himself (Charot-Marie-Tooth > syndrom), is still active in this program, as well as in a sister > program that designs and constructs personalized children's > wheelchairs at low cost. More recently he helped start and advises > Habilítate Mazatlán, a service program for disabled children run and > staffed by disabled recovering drug users. > > David has kindly agreed to deliver this lecture at 5 pm (India > time) on 10th March which coincides to 3.30 am in the morning in > California where he is based. . > > We request you to please attend this lecture on 10 March which is > being organized virtually and the link for the lecture shall be sent > to you shortly. > > With regards, > > Rajive > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mental Health Advocacy (News 'N Views) India" group. ------------- Affiliated Groups : MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INDIA [email protected] Discussions on mental health law / policy / plan monitoring / human rights etc [email protected] India-specific news and views related to mental health [email protected] Information and support to carers of people with mental health issues [email protected] Mutual support and sharing of experiential knowledge, skills and social learning amongst peers --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mental Health Advocacy (News 'N Views) India" group. 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