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The World Bank External Relations Corporate Communications
and Disability & Development Team
invites you to attend a presentation and discussion on:
Integrating Disability Messages into the Mainstream Media
Who: Barbara Duncan, Rehabilitation International
When: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Where: World Bank U Building (1800 G Street N.W., Washington, DC)
Conf. Room 11-078
Chairs: Gerard T. Rice, Director EXT Corporate Communications
Please RSVP by 12:00 PM on Wednesday, January 21
Interested external guests, please RSVP via email or phone to: Karen
Peffley
phone: (202) 458-4051 email: [email protected]
Background:
Increasingly, disability groups are becoming active in civil society
throughout the world, including some of the poorest countries of Asia,
Africa and Latin America, as well as in Eastern and Central Europe. As
examples, there are vocal disability non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Uganda, East Timor, Latvia
and Uruguay. Their issues are primarily the same as other disadvantaged
groups living mostly in poverty: survival and access to education,
training and income producing activities. Yet, coverage of disability
groups and their issues in the mass media is either absent or focused on
disability prevention initiatives such as polio immunization or vitamin
A campaigns. This presentation will provide examples of effective media
portrayals of disability issues in developing countries and recommended
print, audiovisual and electronic resources to improve media coverage of
disability and development.
Presenter:
Barbara Duncan is director of communications for Rehabilitation
International, based in New York, an international NGO established in
1922 to improve the situation of disabled children worldwide. For the
last 30 years she has worked with international organizations,
governments and UN agencies to improve communications about disability
through journals, books, film festivals, public education campaigns and
electronic media. Duncan is editor of the International Rehabilitation
Review and DisabilityWorld, an electronic magazine of news and views,
published in English and Spanish.
References: www.rehab-international.org/publications/rehabreview.htm
www.rehab-international.org/publications/filmcat/index.html
www.disabilityworld.org
Disability Accommodations:
For ASL interpreter and for other accommodation requests.
Location:
The venue of the lecture is at the World Bank U building located at 1800
G Street NW, at the intersection of G Street and 18th Street. The
closest Metros are Farragut West and Farragut North.
Security:
Passes will be available for registered guests at the U Building front
desk. Please bring photo ID with you.
—
Jeffrey S. Reznick, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Senior Research Fellow
Orthotic & Prosthetic Assistance Fund, Inc. (OPAF)
1666 K Street NW, Suite 440
Washington, DC 20006
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