Promoting the human rights and full participation of children and adults with disabilities worldwide.
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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

Op-Ed for The Washington Post

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  • This Saturday in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine), the team of the non-governmental organization Disability Rights International Ukraine presented the results of the project "VOICES: Women, Children, and Disability." The intimate presentation and opening of the exhibition brought together the project participants, the team that worked on it, and experts in the field (and with lived experiences) of protecting the rights of people with disabilities. 

  • VOICES: Women, Children, and Disability is a first-person reflection project dedicated to the diverse experiences of women. It consists of a catalog and exhibition canvases featuring art portraits of 12 women from different parts of Ukraine who have experience with motherhood and disability, either their own or that of their children.
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Documenting and reporting on the pervasive and abusive practice of institutionalizing children and adults with disabilities.

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Global campaigns to end institutionalization and empower people with disabilities to make change in their own societies.

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Strategic Litigation

To protect victims of abuse and ensure their full inclusion in society through international human rights bodies.

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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.