Validity coordinates and contributes to a variety of initiatives to promote and protect the human rights of persons with disabilities. In every initiative, we seek to serve and act under the instructions of persons with disabilities. The following are a list of current and previous projects:
Current initiatives
- COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (COVID-DRM) | Global initiative (March 2020 onwards)
- Changing the Accessibility of Tools for Victims | Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania (July 2022 – June 2024)
- Enabling Inclusion and Access to Justice for Defendants with Intellectual and Psychosocial Disabilities | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (September 2022 – August 2024)
- Disability-based Connected Facilities and Programmes for Prevention of Violence against Women and Children | Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal (March 2023 – February 2025)
Previous initiatives
- Voices for Justice: Communicating with Victims of Crime with Disabilities | Bulgaria, Czechia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (July 2020 – December 2022)
- Child-Friendly Justice: Developing the Concept of Social Courts Practices | Bulgaria, Romania, Italy (July 2020 – June 2022)
- Tackling Torture Against Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic – a webinar series (October – December 2020)
- Supporting Mental Health Policy Evolution in Africa | Regional initiative (September 2019 – August 2021)
- The CHARM Project: Identifying and Preventing Abuse against Children with Mental Disabilities in Europe | Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, United Kingdom (June 2015 – May 2017)
- Innovating European Lawyers to Advance the Rights of Children with Disabilities | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia (January 2016 – June 2017)
- Access to Justice for Children with Mental Disabilities | Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom
- The Right to Legal Capacity in Kenya (2012-2014)
- Mental Health and Human Rights in Uganda
- Human Rights and Mental Health in Zambia