Women’s Health and Justice Initiative empowers women with disabilities to fight against coercive, segregated, and paternalistic healthcare. We demand treatment, not torture.
Orphanages are no place
for children
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Eric Rosenthal, Founder of Disability Rights International (DRI), will discuss DRI findings on exploitation and trafficking from institutions, joined by UN Special Rapporteur on Disability and international activists.
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Program
Opening Remarks:
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Remarks by Gerard Quinn, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Affiliated Research Faculty, Raoul Wallenberg Institute (University of Lund) for the UN COSP 18 Side Event that took place on June 11, 2025 - Standing Up for Disability Inclusion & International Engagement in a Time of Adversity: A Global Response from the US Disability Community
Investigations
Documenting and reporting on the pervasive and abusive practice of institutionalizing children and adults with disabilities.
Advocacy
Global campaigns to end institutionalization and empower people with disabilities to make change in their own societies.
Strategic Litigation
To protect victims of abuse and ensure their full inclusion in society through international human rights bodies.
There are one billion children and adults with disabilities worldwide, most still segregated from society in abusive institutions, living in poverty, or left without educational and economic opportunity.
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