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Residential Care Controversy: The Promise of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Protect All Children

By Eric Rosenthal, as published in The International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, November 2021, Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 2021), pp. 95-117

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Call to action to protect the right to family life & prevent institutionalization for all children

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Webinar recording: Group homes for children with disabilities? Disability rights perspectives symposium

Webinar recording: A Call to Action: Protect the right to family life & prevent institutionalization for all children

Webinar recording: A Global Controversy: International Human Rights Implications of Replacing Orphanages with Small Group Homes

Leading international child welfare experts and clinicians statement supporting the right to family life for all children

Submitted to UN Committee on the Rights of Child Day of General Discussion on Alternative Care September 2021

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Joint contribution of disability rights organisations to the 2021 EU-Ukraine Human Rights Dialogue

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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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En el país, los discapacitados son detenidos en instituciones altamente peligrosas, según ONG

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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International Aid Funds Institutionalization in Guatemala

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (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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International Collaboration for Inclusion: A Study Funded by the US Department of State

Lessons from Ukraine (2014)

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

(2013)

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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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Romania Report

Hidden Suffering

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

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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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Hungary Report

Human Rights and Mental Health, Hungary

(1997)

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