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Budapest, 24 October. This week the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women reviewed Moldova’s compliance with global women’s rights. It called on women with disabilities to be protected from abuse, highlighting sexual assault in residential institutions, involuntary treatment, and forced sterilisation.
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The UN represents universality and indivisibility of human rights norms. So why is the UN Human Rights Committee ignoring the human rights of people with disabilities? New blog post on Oliver talks.
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On World Mental Health Day, the Romanian government commits itself to providing access to civil society representatives to monitor institutions for people with disabilities across the country. MDAC welcomes this important important development.
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9 October 2013. The conviction of Mikhail Kosenko points to broad violations of human rights and the political abuse of psychiatry. Over 100,000 people are detained in a gulag of ‘psychiatric institutions’ across the country.
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