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Disability-Inclusive Disaster Preparedness and Response: Challenges and Opportunities for Reconstruction in Haiti

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Janet E. Lord
Janet E. Lord*
Affiliation:
BlueLaw International LLP; Harvard Law School Project on Disability; University of Maryland School of Law
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Haiti: International Law and Disaster
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 118 - 122
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, G.A. Res. 61/106, UN Doc. A/RES/61/106 (Dec. 13, 2006) [hereinafter Crpd], available at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/convtexte.htm. See generally Lord, Janet E. & Stein, Michael Ashley, The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 83 U. Wash. L. Rev. 449 (2008)Google Scholar.

2 Lord, Janet E., Stein, Michael Ashley & Waterstone, Michael E., Natural Disasters and People with Disabilities, in LAW and Recovery From Disaster: Hurricane Katrina 71 (Malloy, Robin Paul ed., 2009)Google Scholar.

3 National Council on Disability, Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning (Sept. 2005) [hereinafter Ncd Report], available at http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2005/saving_lives.htm.

4 International Disability Rights Monitor, Disability and Early Tsunami Relief Efforts in India, Indonesia and Thailand (2005), available at http://www.ideanet.org/cir/upIoads/File/TsunamiReport.pdf.

5 Phillips, Tom, Haiti Earthquake Creating a Generation of Amputees, Doctors Wam, Guardian, Jan. 21, 2010 Google Scholar, available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/21/haiti-doctors-warn-amputee-crisis; Tim Padgett, Haiti: What to do with a Nation of Amputees, Time, Feb. 17, 2010, available at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1964441,00.html.

6 Sontag, Deborah, In Haiti Mental Health System is in Collapse, N.Y. Times, Mar. 19, 2010, at A1Google Scholar, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/americas/20haiti.html.

7 Haiti Quake Victims Moved to Safer Refuge, Nztv, Apr. 11, 2010, available at http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/haiti-quake-victims-moved-safer-refuge-3456836.

8 See generally Nora Groce, HIV and Disability: Capturing Hidden Voices (2004).

9 Phillips, supra note 5.

10 CRPD, supra note 1, at art. 11.

11 Id. at art. 11.

12 Id. at art. 5.

13 Id. at art. 10.

14 Haiti ratified the CRPD on July 23, 2009.

15 CRPD, supra note 1.

16 Australian Agency for International Development, Development for All, Towards a Disability-Inclusive Australian Aid Program 2009-2014 (2008), available at http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/dev-for-all.pdf.

17 See United States Agency for International Development, Usaid Disability Policy (2004), available at http://pdf.dec.org/pdf_docs/PDABQ631.pdf.

18 The United Nations is currently facilitating system-wide efforts to support CRPD promotion and implementation across the organization. The focal point for the coordination of this work is the Inter-Agency Support Group on the CRPD. See Report of the Secretary-General, Status of the CRPD, July 7, 2009, UN Doc. A/64/128, available at http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/393/77/PDF/N0939377.pdf7OpenElement. Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law.