ULAC DIGITAL.
Newsletter, July 2010.
Latin American Blind Union.
Edition 4. * Content. Editorial
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ULAC Secretariats.
a.. Education and Culture: New addition.
b.. Equity and Gender: Advocacy and Human Rights. C.
. Youth: Reopening of I Online Forum. Events
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a.. Bolivia: Rehabilitation in the table.
b.. Central America: Production of materials. C.
. Mar del Plata, Argentina: 25 ULAC anniversary.
Announcements: a.. Latin American Festival of Visual Artists with Disabilities: We extend the deadlines.
Regional news: a.. Argentina: Audio description on TV.
b.. Brazil: National Braille Day. C.
. Mexico: Access to reading. D.
. Venezuela: Venezuelan Council of Braille.
ULAC in the world: a.. The Vice Presidents in Madrid.
b.. WIPO-SCCR meeting.
Contributions to the newsletter. Contact
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------------------------------------------- * Editorial.
Current challenges present in the agendas of organizations of blind and low vision in Latin America, but are the same as that occupied our concerns in the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century, greatly increased the role of actions we need to take to ensure this segment decent living conditions, equality and access to citizenship rights.
The right to work, education, health, access to goods and information and communication products, the implementation of programs to promote access to technologies, are some of our most important demands, which call for action a movement strong, organized and tuned with goals of development and growth in the medium and long term in our continent.
And how we get out of a scenario in which organizations are still fragile, some without acknowledgment or performance space with government institutions and management bodies of public policy? The Brazilian experience tells us that the way empowerment is possible for our unification. The word unity has been present in our discussion since the eighties of the twentieth century, however it was not until 2008 that we realize that experience by bringing together the two entities into a single nationally representative, National Organization of Blind Brazil (ONCB) initiating a trajectory of space conquest with government bodies, councils representing civil society, private bodies to promote labor and goods and services.
ONCB The institution as a single national representation of blind people throughout the country, structured so that the five regions are represented on its board, also resulted in the reorganization of local organizations based in the municipalities and Brazilian states around a common agenda of actions that seek to minimize the unfavorable rates of access to public policy income and work for our segment.
Two years lived in the sign of unity and show us a path of growth within the segment as well as recognition and respect on the part of government and civil society organizations. Young leaders with creativity and intelligence face the challenge of leading the new organization and make it their constituents spokesman, distributed in different geographical regions and subjected to various socioeconomic and cultural conditions.
reflect on that path, understand its importance to Latin American organizations to endorse the steps can be taken to a unification in the other countries of the region could be a valuable exercise for future enterprise reorganization of the action within our associations. Raimondi Volmer
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Education and Culture .- A unanimous proposal of the Board of the Latin American Blind Union, postal vote was taken by the Executive Committee the appointment of Professor Cristina Sanz (Argentina) to fill the vacancy of the Secretariat.
After completing the voting process, Professor Cristina Sanz has joined the Executive Committee as Secretary ULAC Education with specialized functions and Culture until the end of the period.
should be noted that Maria Cristina Sanz has joined the Executive Committee of our Union between 1990 and 2000, as head of the then Commission on Education and Culture.
may contact the Secretariat by e sec@ulacdigital.org.
'gender-equity and has launched the course "RIGHTS, THE APPLICABILITY OF CDPD, and advocacy." In a first stage, the initiative will take place in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.
This course, attending classes, is intended for visually impaired women, representatives of different organizations addressing the issue. The aim of this course is to inform participants that the legal framework to enable appropriate covers the legal tools to enhance their participation in society, with the ultimate aim of encouraging them to multiply what they learned and to support and lead to his peers and colleagues in the advocacy process.
This initiative can be replicated in other countries in the region, with the support of the Secretariat. For further information, e-genero@ulacdigital.org. Youth
.- In order to provide a space for dialogue, discussion and reflection on the situation of young people visually impaired are invited to all the young Latin Americans with visual disabilities aged between 15 and 30, to participate in the Virtual Forum "JóvenesULAC", which will reopen from July.
Youth interested in participating should contact the group membership page: http://www.egrupos.net/grupo/iforovirtualjovenesulac/alta and enter their email address on the form that appears there. Are immediately the subscription by sending an email to the subscribed address with information on the forum.
Those youth who had participated in the "I JÓVENESULAC VIRTUAL FORUM" and changed their address should notify the moderators at the following addresses: juventud@ulacdigital.org and oficina@ulacdigital.org. Join
, you too are part of ULAC! ------------------------------------------- * Events.
Bolivia: Rehabilitation in the table .- From 12 to 16 July next will be held at the Training Center of AECI in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the course "Integrated Model of Rehabilitation Services People with Visual Impairment: A path to social inclusion work. "
The course aims to foster a rehabilitation model upgraded to the reality of the century society XXI, will also be the framework for the presentation of the updated edition of the handbook for the rehabilitation of the Latin American Union of the Blind.
Central: Production of materials .- Nicaragua and El Salvador have been chosen by the CERLALC as subregional headquarters for two training sessions on producing materials in accessible media.
Under the agreement, ULAC CERLALC is carried out this training to train more than forty people from Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and the host countries. The aim is to strengthen the Braille and audio production in Central America.
Mar del Plata, Argentina: 25 anniversary of ULAC .- Next November 15 Latin American Blind Union turns 25 years working for Typhlological movement in our region.
In this framework, will be held a day-seminar open to the public which will address various topics related to both the history of the organization, as well as visual impairment in general.
From July 15 will be available the registration form and preliminary program of events in www.ulacdigital.org. ------------------------------------------- ------
------------------------------------- * Calls. Latin American Festival Performers
Visually Impaired .- The Board resolved ULAC unanimously to postpone the implementation of the Latin American Festival final performers visually impaired by 2011. This decision
hoped that more countries in the region to participate in the initiative in organizing their national calls during the current year.
are reminded that the bases are on the festival website ULAC calls section.
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Argentina Argentina .- The Federation of Institutions for blind and partially sighted (FAIC) in conjunction with a local producer, has managed to incorporate audio description to the regular programming channel Encounter signal from the Ministry of National Education.
This service, available Monday through Friday in prime time, includes a voice-over information that enables people with blindness or low vision to access the visual content of the program.
Brazil .- The National Organization of Blind Brazil (ONCB) has managed the institution of the national day of Braille in that country.
The rule states that recently adopted on 8 April of each year will mark the national day of Braille, and on that date, public and private entities must conduct events to recall the memory of Louis Braille spreading the importance of this system in education, rehabilitation, and training for people with visual disabilities.
Mexico .- For the second consecutive year the Mexican Agency promote the coordinated development of the Visually Impaired IAP, ended last April, with the support of the Coordination of Social and Community Development at the University La Salle, printing 14,000 Braille volumes of 105 literary works to be donated to 40 reading rooms adapted. This was done to provide children, youth and adults with visual impairment in Mexico the opportunity to access them.
is estimated that potential users of this project may exceed eight thousand five hundred thousand people with visual impairment who has registered on the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of Mexico (INEGI).
This action of the Salle University responds to Freedom of Information and access to a print culture that allows visually impaired people enjoy reading in full autonomy and independence.
Venezuela .- Between 4 and 5 June, was held the XIV Venezuelan Council meeting of Braille. This is a functional body attached to the Secretariat of Education and Culture of the Venezuelan Federation of the Blind Institution, which promotes and disseminates it pertains to the system of touch reading and writing. The event took place in the facilities at the Recreation INCRETSOL in the town of Higuerote, Miranda State, with the assistance of some 70 delegates from most of the country.
also approved its rules, was elected to the board for the next four years was composed of a technical director and chief operating officer, who shall act under the direction of the Secretariat of Education and Culture. Also, were elected commissioners of the various forms of Braille: integral, stenography musicography, scientific Braille and Technology. ------------------------------------------- * ULAC
in the world.
Vice Presidents in Madrid .- Semiannually takes place the Board meeting of the ONCE Foundation for Latin America attended by, among others, the three patrons of ULAC.
The June 23 meeting was held for the first half of 2010, at which time part of our Union Canizalez Julius Caesar, first vice president, and Volmer Raimondi, Second Vice President.
then both attended the seminar on Development organized by the World Blind Union (WBU) and sponsored by ONCE and NABP.
-WIPO SCCR meeting .- From 21 to 24 June in Geneva, Switzerland, the meeting of the Council of Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intellectual instance in which there were further discussions on the need for an international legal framework to provide for minimal exceptions to copyright in books for the visually impaired.
After tough negotiations in which Latin American governments held firm in supporting the draft treaty presented by the UMC, the session ended without conclusions, as reported by the representative of the campaign ULAC Right to Read, Paul Lecuona.
------------------------------------------- * Contributions to the newsletter ULACDIGITAL is a bimonthly electronic newsletter distribution. Its aim is to give wide publicity to the events Typhlological relevant to the movement in general and for our region in particular.
All contributions to be included in the newsletter are welcome. We will be receiving your input by Friday 13 August at the e oficina@ulacdigital.org.
------------------------------------------- * Contact information.
Below are contact details ULAC Executive Committee.
President, Guillermo Moreno: presidencia@ulacdigital.org.
Senior Vice President, Julio Canizalez: vp1@ulacdigital.org.
Second Vice-Volmer Raimondi: vp2@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary General, Norma Toucedo: sgeneral@ulacdigital.org. Secretary for Resources
and Finance, Carlos Horacio Garcia: srf@ulacdigital.org.
Immediate Past President, José Monteagudo: expresidencia@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary of Education and Culture, Cristina Sanz: sec@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary of Technology and Access to Information, Fernando Galarraga: tai@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary of Training and Employment, Mizael Conrado de Oliveira: empleo@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary of Prevention of Blindness, Edivaldo Da Silva Ramos: spc@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary of Equity and Gender, Ileana Chacon: genero@ulacdigital.org.
Human Rights Secretariat and Legal Affairs, Soledad Cisternas: ddhh@ulacdigital.org.
Ministry for Youth, Lucia Nieves: juventud@ulacdigital.org.
Senior Secretary, Maria Elena Restrepo: adultomayor@ulacdigital.org.
Secretary of Physical Education, Recreation and Sports, Antonio Salazar: deportes@ulacdigital.org.
Rehabilitation Secretary, Jose Raul Baquet: rehabilita@ulacdigital.org. International Member
, Ana Peláez Narváez: ------------------------------------- apn@once.es ------ Latin American Blind Union - ULAC Mercedes 1327, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Tel: (+598) 2-903 3022 int. 22.
Fax: (+598) 2-903 3022 int. 21.
Mobile: (+598) 9591 8573 E-mail: info@ulacdigital.org Web: www.ulacdigital.org
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