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UN CRPD Committee Approves New Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including times of emergency.
On September 9, 2022 the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) adopted the new Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including times of emergency. The Guidelines provide a roadmap to governments, disability activists, and donors about the immediate steps needed
Read MoreBBC followed Disability Rights International into Ukraine institutions for children with disabilities
“The billions of dollars of international aid being pumped into Ukraine during the war should also be used to shut down orphanages, support families to care for their children and build a community that accepts disability,” says Eric Rosenthal, Executive
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Disability Rights International “[…] refuses to accept that the disabled in poor countries should be consigned to lives of torture.”
“Disability Rights International […] convincingly documents, with heartbreaking photos and videos, practices that it calls torture.”
