Advocacy
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- Advocacy House
- Action for Community Living is committed to improving the quality and range of opportunities that enable people with disabilities to live well in the community. Auspice for VICNORD and the Disability Rights Victoria consortium.
- Citizen Advocacy Eastside
- Promotes, protects and defends the rights and interests of people who have an intellectual disability.
- Disability Education Advocacy Australia
- A small business that provides people in the wider community with a better understanding into the needs, rights and concerns of people with disabilities. Services are provided by Peter Waters who has Cerebral Palsy, and include talks, workhops and taining for businesses that employ people with disabilities.
- Citizen Advocacy Eastside (Sydney)
- Citizen Advocacy is a movement that seeks to promote, protect and defend the rights and interests of people who have an intellectual disability.
- Disability Action (SA)
- Rights, equality and empowerment for people with disabilities in South Australia.
- DND Press Disability Research Library (USA)
- A comprehensive collection of disability related documents, including the complete text of major disability laws, regulations, government reports, and guides.
- Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre (WA)
- Promotes and safeguards the rights of ethnic people with disabilities and their carers.
- Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
- Provides a range of resources and links on disability rights and discrimination issues.
- Intellectual Disability Rights Service Inc. (IDRS)
- IDRS will help anyone in NSW of any age with an intellectual disability exercise their rights under the law.
- Ms Wheelchair Maryland (US)
- A statewide advocacy organization for woman who use wheelchairs. We host an annual competition to select a spokeswoman for people with disabilities.
- NEDA
- A peak body for people from non English speaking backgrounds with disability. NEDA advocates at a federal level, for the rights and interests of people from NESB with a disability, their families and carers.
- Physical Disability Council of NSW
- Information about advocacy and heaps of resources, including an advocacy knowledge base, tools (facts and figures, sample letters) and articles about lobbying and the media. The site also includes details about current PDC-NSW campaigns, community consultations, publications and the Activist's Advocacy Network.
- Queensland Advocacy Incorporated
- An independent, community-based systems advocacy and legal advocacy organisation for people with disability in Queensland, Australia.
- United Advocacy
- A celebration of life, empowerment, solidarity and love.
- Women With Disabilities Australia
- WWDA operates as both a national women's organisation and a national disability advocacy organisation. This means that WWDA often works on policy and program areas that affect women, and on policy and program areas that affect people with a disability.