• Read the full text of the resolutions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities click here.

• UNESCO adopted the resolutions of the ‘World Conference on Special Needs Education: Access and Quality (Salamanca 1994)’. It says, “Regular schools with this inclusive orientation are the most effective means of combating discriminatory attitudes, creating welcoming communities, building an inclusive society and achieving education for all…” Read about it click here.

• Download our Department of Basic Education’s policy document on inclusive schools (Education White Paper 6) click here.

• This research paper by Human Rights Watch reveals how few children with disabilities enjoy their right to education: click here.

• This online Mail and Guardian newspaper article by Section 27 activists Silomo Khumalo and Tim Fish Hodgson describes their investigation into the poor current state of schools for the blind and visually impaired in South Africa: Click here.

• This Mail and Guardian article describes how children with disabilities are neglected and abused (for example by being raped) in a poor rural community: Click here.

• This research in The South African Journal of Education describes, “The challenges of realising inclusive education in South Africa.” It is by Dana Donohue and Juan Bornman at the University of Pretoria: Click here.

• Read about a university for the deaf and hard of hearing here: Click here.

• Read about local high-achieving sportspeople with disabilities here: Click here.