examples of media coverage of diversity in general

EXAMPLES OF MEDIA COVERAGE OF DISABILITIES AND HEALTH

Examples from Great Britain

• The rights way forward
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005, which takes effect on Monday, has been described as a major advance in civil rights. There are new definitions of disability and new duties for the public sector. So is there anything left to fight for? (The Guradian, December 2005)

• HIV-positive Russian women and their children face discrimination
HIV-positive Russian women and their children face widespread discrimination and abuse, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. Children born to HIV-positive women are often segregated in Russia for no medical reason, the rights group says. (BBC News, 15 July 2005)

• Access win for disabled railway user
A British disabled man has won a legal battle after the appeal court ruled a train firm was wrong to make him travel 30 miles to cross a rail line. (BBC News, 5 November 2004)

• Britain looks to San Francisco on disabled accessibility
With UK law on disability rights about to change, campaigneers are pointing to the high levels of accesssibilty in San Francisco as a possible future for Britain. (BBC News, 9 September 2004)

• Disabled suffer travel problems
A new survey in the United Kingdom has revealed that three out of five disabled people have difficulty using public transpor. (BBC News, 30 August 2004)

• Careful research and forward planning required for disabled travellers
People are heading for an ever wider variety of foreign destinations thanks to last minute deals and low-cost airlines. But for disabled travellers finding a location that they can explore with ease requires careful research and forward planning.
(BBC News, 31 July 2004)

• Jet pilot orders deaf passengers off plane
A group of deaf holiday-makers from Liverpool were ordered off an Easyjet flight because the pilot decided they were a safety risk. The group, from a Liverpool deaf society, were heading to Amsterdam and had already boarded the flight at John Lennon Airport when they were told to leave the aircraft. (Liverpool Daily Post)

• Mental health travesty in Bulgaria
As Bulgaria looks set to join the European Union by 2007, it is under pressure to reform mental health care - in particular its notorious social care homes......
(BBC News, 16 December, 2002)

Examples from South-East Europe

• Wasted Years
Ivan, Alen and Renato work in the fields of the Marjanovac convent in Aleksandrovac near Banjaluka, the capital of Republika Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ivan is from Belgrade (Serbia), Alen from Zenica (Bosnia), and Renato is from Split (Croatia). All three of them are attempting to kick the same vice - drugs.....
(by Ljiljana Kovacevic - BETA - MDI, 2002)

• The Plight of the Mentally ill in Bulgaria
The shelter for mentally disturbed people in the Bulgarian village of Podgumer is among the best such institutions in the country, but only because all the others are much worse. "I came here 16 years ago. Until then I knew the inside of concentration camps only from the movies, but now I know from personal experience what they are truly all about," says director Georgi Lulcev describing the institution......
(by Nikolaj Petrov - BETA - MDI, 200