Tag: women with disabilities
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A Call for Action: Maria’s Fight for Safety, Freedom, and Her Child
“Will my child live with me? Will my child and I be together? She said my name 4–5 times. God bless you for helping me.” – Maria Maria (name changed) is a young woman with an intellectual disability in Georgia, whose life has been marked by the kinds of violence no one should ever have to endure. At the age of just 14, she was forced into marriage with a man far older…
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Mexico: Validity intervenes before the National Supreme Court of Justice to argue coercive psychiatric treatment violates CRPD
In November 2023, Validity submitted an Amicus Curiae in a trial initiated by Documenta which concerns the involuntary hospitalization and treatment of 90 women with disabilities in a psychiatric hospital in Mexico. The unlawful treatment and detention of these women clearly raised issues of a general nature regarding the impact on the enjoyment of human…
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Hungary: Disability rights organisations address lack of respect for the rights of persons with disabilities through the UN’s Universal Periodic Review
Yesterday, Validity Foundation together with the Hungarian Autistic Society, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Living Independently in the Community Advocacy Group, and the Step by Step! Association submitted a shadow report to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), an important human rights process conducted by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Validity also contributed to…
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COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor Report highlights catastrophic global failure to protect the rights of persons with disabilities
Final report: Click here Easy-to-read summary of the final report: Click here In its final report, the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (DRM) Coordinating Group calls for urgent action by States and the international community to halt the catastrophic failure to protect the lives, health and rights of persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…