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International Women’s Day – remembering tragedy at Guatemala orphanage
One year ago today, 41 girls were killed in a fire in an orphanage in Guatemala. The girls, aged 14 to 17, had used the occasion of International Women’s Day to protest the sexual abuse they suffered in the institution
Read MorePress release: Mexico’s draft mental health law would violate basic human rights if adopted by legislature
Washington, DC – February 5, 2018 – A new draft mental health law, now under consideration by Mexico’s Legislature, would continue to allow people with disabilities to be locked away in institutions – which is a violation of the UN
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“Disability Rights International […] convincingly documents, with heartbreaking photos and videos, practices that it calls torture.”
Disability Rights International “[…] refuses to accept that the disabled in poor countries should be consigned to lives of torture.”
