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
Latest Updates
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The Inter-American Commission just announced a decision against Guatemala in the case of Federico Mora Patients v. Guatemala that sets legal precedent to protect people with disabilities in Guatemala and throughout the Americas. The case was brought by Disability Rights International (DRI) and the Guatemalan Colectivo Vida Independiente, joined by the Center for Health and Human Rights, O’Neill Institute of Georgetown University Law Center.
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Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director of Disability Rights International (DRI), discussed DRI findings on exploitation and trafficking from institutions, joined by UN Special Rapporteur on Disability and international activists.
View Full Event Recording: UN Web TV - Live Broadcast
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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