Rosemary Kayess

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It’s time disability reform became an election commitment

Dec 9, 2024 | disabilityinsider.com | Rosemary Kayess

Exhaustion and despair. No words better surmise the mood within Australia’s disability community at the end of another sitting year of Parliament. Another year of advocacy and hard work, striving for equality, once again let down and disillusioned by the outcomes. The past 12 months had promised so much. From the Disability Royal Commission, the NDIS Review, and the review of Australia’s ten-year Disability Strategy, there has been a significant focus on reform.
It’s time disability reform became an election priority

Dec 4, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Rosemary Kayess

Exhaustion and despair. No words better surmise the mood within Australia’s disability community at the end of another sitting year of Parliament. Another year of advocacy and hard work, striving for equality, once again let down and disillusioned by the outcomes. The past 12 months had promised so much. From the disability royal commission, the NDIS review, and the review of Australia’s 10-year Disability Strategy, there has been a significant focus on reform.
Time for the International Criminal Court to Recognize Persons with Disabilities and the Slave Trade

Aug 21, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Janet Lord |Pace Schwarz |Matthew Smith |Michael Stein |Alex Green |Rosemary Kayess

Although the prohibition of the slave trade is one of the oldest peremptory norms of international law, its absence from the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) – created a gap in international law that has yet to be filled. While the ICC’s framework accounts for the crime of enslavement, it neglects the legally distinct, but related, crime of the slave trade (i.e., criminalizing the intent to initiate or maintain a person’s enslavement).
What can we learn from disability policy to advance our understanding of how to operationalise intersectionality in Australian policy frameworks?

Jul 14, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Shona Bates |Rosemary Kayess |Ilan Katz

1 INTRODUCTION Intersectional theory recognises inequity is rarely associated with one social identity and is experienced differently in different contexts and power relations (Hankivsky & Jordan-Zachery, 2019a). Our individual characteristics, circumstances (including social and economic resources), and the context in which we live may in some cases be protective and in others lead to discrimination, marginalisation, or poor outcomes.