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UN Disability Committee recognizes groundbreaking rights for children
September 27, 2017 – Washington, DC – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has explicitly stated that every child has a right to grow up in a family, not in an institution or group home, in
Read MoreJustice for victims of Federico Mora
Washington, DC – September 8, 2017 – After years of monitoring conditions, advocacy, and negotiations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on the government of Guatemala to take major steps toward the closure of its psychiatric hospital Federico Mora, called
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