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		<title>Abercrombie &amp; Fitch fined for bias against girl with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/09/abercrombie-fitch-fined-autism-22124/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She says store made her feel like a &#8216;misfit&#8217; From Minnesota Public Radio, [Minneapolis-St. Paul] Star Tribune: Minnesota has fined retailer Abercrombie &#38; Fitch $115,264 for discriminating against a person with a disability after store representatives refused to allow a family member to help a girl with autism in a dressing room. The state&#8217;s Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: Senate should ratify disability rights pact</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/03/op-ed-un-pac-21195/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Baltimore Sun, Nancy Langer praises President Obama&#8217;s announcement that the U.S. will sign the The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She urges the Senate to ratify the pact. U.S. humanitarian assistance and disaster relief must incorporate special programs for people with disabilities. Disability rights are not merely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. signs disability rights treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/31/u-s-signs-treaty-21032/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/Los Angeles Times and Reuters: The United States Thursday signed a United Nations treaty aimed at protecting the rights of 650 million people with disabilities worldwide. The Bush administration had refused to endorse the convention, arguing that it would weaken protections offered to U.S. citizens by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The treaty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring history through the lens of disability</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/28/disability-history-20840/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor Carl R Weinberg introduces the Magazine of History&#8217;s disability history issue with the observation that the concept of disability offers a &#8220;new way to look at history.&#8221; Weinberg says many adults today grew up with a minimal consciousness of the rights and perspectives of people with disabilities. He urges teachers to incorporate an awareness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama must seek Senate&#8217;s help on UN disability rights treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/25/un-treaty-senate-20661/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joseph Shapiro on National Public Radio: Some 140 nations have signed a new United Nations convention to protect the human rights of people with disabilities, but the United States had refused to support it until yesterday. President Obama announced that the U.S. will now sign, but he&#8217;ll need to get the Senate to vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Obama should send strong disability rights message</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/02/obama-19529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Huffington Post, Nancy Lublin says it&#8217;s time for President Obama to step up as a global leader on disability rights and champion the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). An excerpt: Not signing and ratifying the CRPD sends the message that while we protect our disabled, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple faces end of battle over death of baby with Trisomy 13</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/22/baby-annie-18923/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Toronto, Canada] National Post: Barbara Farlow and her husband Timothy are facing what is expected to be the end of their legal challenge to Toronto&#8217;s Hospital for Sick Children over the 2005 death of their daughter Annie, who had Trisomy 13. If a judge rules today that the case cannot be heard in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh hosts international disability rights conference</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/19/pittsburgh-disability-rights-18769/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Disability rights leaders from the European Union and the United States met at the University of Pittsburgh last week to discuss a United Nations treaty and exchange information about disability access, information technology and transportation. The UN&#8217;s disability rights convention has been signed by 139 countries and ratified by 57. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: &#8216;Staring: How We Look&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/15/reviewer-staring-16418/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosemarie Garland-Thomson&#8217;s new book Staring: How We Look explores the &#8220;constructive possibilities&#8221; of a forbidden activity, writes Peter Monaghan in the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only). People with disabilities, argues Garland-Thomson (left), a professor of women&#8217;s studies at Emory University, are not merely the objects of other people&#8217;s gazes, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK panel seeks urgent action to halt violence toward people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/02/crimes-15467/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report: People with disabilities four times more likely to be crime victims From the [UK] Guardian: Urgent action is needed if a &#8220;hidden catastrophe&#8221; of violence and hostility towards disabled people is to be tackled, says a damning report today from the [UK] Equalities and Human Rights Commission. The report paints a bleak picture of [...]]]></description>
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