Crimes Against Humanity: Decades of Violence and Abuse in Mexican Institutions for Children and Adults with Disabilities

Executive Summary – English PDF
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last updated October 26, 2020

Protecting Psychiatric Patients in Guatemala from COVID-19

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updated 5/8/2020

Urgent Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Disability

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updated 5/8/2020

Action Steps to Protect Children and Adults with Disabilities During COVID-19 Pandemic

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updated 4/20/2020

A Dead End for Children – Bulgaria’s Group Homes

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Bulgarian executive summary and recommendations (PDF)
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last updated 11/26/2019

Joint Shadow Report to the UN CRPD Committee

Alternative report by Mexican civil society organizations submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2019)

Colectivo Chuhcan A.C., Disability Rights International, EQUIS Justice for Women A.C., Information Group on Elected Reproduction (GIRE), Transversal, Action on the Rights of People with Disabilities A.C., and the Mexico Children’s Rights Network (REDIM)

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Recommendations to the UN General Assembly on Behalf of Children Without Parental Care

Autism-Europe, Child Rights International Network, Disability Rights International, European Disability Forum, European Network on Independent Living, Inclusion Europe, Inclusion International, International Disability Alliance, International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, TASH, and Validity Foundation

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At the Mexico-US border and segregated from society

Children and adults with disabilities subject to arbitrary detention, abuse and early death inside Mexican orphanages and institutions (2019)

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Updated May 30, 2019

Position paper: The right to live and grow up in a family for all children

December 2018

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last updated March 27, 2019

Infanticide and Abuse

Killing and Confinement of Children with Disabilities in Kenya (2018)

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last updated April 11, 2019

Still in Harm’s Way

International voluntourism, segregation and abuse of children in Guatemala (2018)

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Draft General Comment No. 5

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017)

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International Aid Funds Institutionalization in Guatemala

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017)

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After the Fire

Survivors of Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción at risk (2017)

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Perspectives on Human Rights

A Mandate to End Placement of Children in Institutions and Orphanages: The duty of governments and donors to prevent segregation and torture (2017)

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No Justice

Torture, Trafficking and Segregation in Mexico (2015)

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Last updated 7/20/2016

No Way Home

The Exploitation and Abuse of Children in Ukraine’s Orphanages (2015)

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Ukrainian Executive Summary (.doc)

last updated 9/6/2017

Twice Violated

Abuse and Denial of Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Psychosocial Disabilities in Mexico (2015)

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International Collaboration for Inclusion: A Study Funded by the US Department of State

Lessons from Ukraine (2014)

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Left Behind

The Exclusion of Children and Adults from Reform and Rights Protection in the Republic of Georgia (2013)

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The Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities in the new Mexican Criminal Justice System

(2013)

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Guatemala: Precautionary Measures Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

(2012)

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Abandoned and Disappeared

Mexico’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2010)

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Torture Not Treatment

Electric Shock and Long-Term Restraint in the United States on Children and Adults with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center (2010)

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The Rights of Children with Disabilities in Vietnam

Bringing Vietnam’s Laws into Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009)

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Torment Not Treatment

Serbia’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2007)

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Ruined Lives

Segregation from Society in Argentina’s Psychiatric Asylums (2007)

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Hidden Suffering

Romania’s Segregation and Abuse of Infants and Children with Disabilities (2006)

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Behind Closed Doors

Human Rights Abuses in the Psychiatric Facilities, Orphanages and Rehabilitation Centers of Turkey (2005)

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Human Rights and Mental Health in Peru

(2004)

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Foreign Policy and Disability

(2003)

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Not on the Agenda

Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in Kosovo (2002)

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Human Rights and Mental Health, Mexico

Mexico (2000)

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PACE

A Recovery Guide (1999)

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Children in Russia’s Institutions: Human Rights and Opportunities for Reform

Findings and Recommendations of a UNICEF Sponsored Fact-Finding Mission to the Russian Federation (1999)

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Human Rights and Mental Health, Hungary

(1997)

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Human Rights and Mental Health in Uruguay

(1995)

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