PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Validity is a leading international legal advocacy organisation promoting the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with psychosocial disabilities worldwide.
We use legal strategies to promote, protect and defend the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with psychosocial disabilities. We push for reforms that promote justice and inclusion. We take action in the courts – national and international. And we call for accountability for duty-bearers.
We won’t stop until we achieve inclusion for all.
News
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Accountability for Modern Slavery in Romania: Reports of thousands of persons with disabilities placed in private, unregulated institutions point to grave human rights violations requiring urgent action
Validity is deeply concerned by reports from Romania that more than 3,000 persons with disabilities may have been transferred over a period of two decades from public authorities into the custody of a private individual operating unlawful and unregistered institutions. According to media reports and information now emerging in criminal proceedings, the private operator was allegedly contacted by hospitals, police and social services to…
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Validity calls on the Irish EU Presidency to restore disability rights safeguards in the next EU budget
Validity Foundation has submitted a briefing to the Irish Government calling for the reinstatement of disability rights conditionality in the European Union’s next long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034. Under the current 2021-2027 framework, Member States must satisfy two enabling conditions before accessing EU structural funds: a horizontal condition requiring compliance with the UN Convention…
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Validity joins urgent call to Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to withdraw dangerous legislative proposal legitimising psychiatric coercion
The Validity Foundation has joined twelve other leading European organisations and networks of persons with disabilities to demand the urgent and immediate withdrawal of the draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention. Full joint statement below. If adopted by the Council of Europe’s highest decision-making body, the Committee of Ministers, the Additional Protocol would be…
Our Work
Validity is an international non-governmental organisation which uses the law to secure equality, inclusion and justice for persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with psychosocial disabilities worldwide.
WE ARE LOCAL AND GLOBAL
Validity is a dynamic community of persons with disabilities, legal professionals and volunteers brought together by a desire to reverse injustice and segregation faced by persons with disabilities worldwide.
Our Priorities
Validity focuses on tackling the most widespread and systematic human rights violations faced by persons with disabilities worldwide, to support their autonomy, inclusion and active participation in society.
THE LEGACY OF GÁBOR GOMBOS
Gábor Gombos was an outstanding advocate of the Hungarian and international disability movement and a survivor of psychiatry. He was a world-renowned independent disability rights defender.
