November 26, 1997

Greetings,

    Deaf Watch Newsletter asks you to help United Nations celebrate
the United Nations International Disabled Persons Day which is on
December 3 of each year.  This time, it is a week from today.
We have assembled some interesting links.  

Observing the International Day of Disabled Persons.
    gopher://gopher.un.org/00/sec/dpcsd/dspd/disabled/DISABLED.GUI

Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities.
    http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/dpi1647e.htm

Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network for
Employment and Training.
    http://www.gladnet.org/

The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library Handicapped 
individuals and the law.
    http://law.house.gov/102.htm

Disabled Peoples' International.
    http://www.dpi.org

World Association of Persons with Disabilities.
    http://www.wapd.org

National Center for Accessible Media's Web Access Symbol.
    http://www.boston.com/wgbh/pages/ncam/currentprojects/symbolwinner.html

CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) Bobby.
    http://www.cast.org/bobby1.3/
    
We hope you will, in your own ways, participate in this event.  We have
our own plans for that day.  Visit our website on December 3, 1997.

Richard Roehm
William Cross
Deaf Watch Newsletter Staff

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Deaf Watch will continue to aggressively pursue justice, fairness, 
and equality for the Deaf Community as it has been doing since November 
1996.  We have chosen that EDUCATION is the best way accomplish this
objective.