Articles

Here you will find articles related to the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities. These articles have been published in our newsletter, Human Rights Africa, or in other media.

Grassroots initiatives fill a gap in the official approach to HIV

This article was published under the title "HIV strategies ignore the disabled" in the Cape Times, a South African daily newspaper, on March 29, 2007 (www.capetimes.co.za) and on the IOL website, www.iolhivaids.co.za.

Moving from words to implementation in the struggle for human rights

This article was published on October 4 2006 in the online publication Pambazuka News, under the headline "Protecting the rights of the disabled". Pambazuka news is "a weekly forum for social justice in Africa" (www.pambazuka.org).