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June 20, 2016 Commentary

We Need to Stop Treating People with Disabilities as Less Than Human

Roxan Perez joins more than 200 protestors in non-violent direct action in Washington. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

June 14, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Millions of Children Are Still Not In School. Why?

Out of use Perkins braillers, or braille writers

June 8, 2016 Witness

Witness: As If My Child Were a Burden to Me

Julija Čuković, who spent ten months of her life in an institution, at home in Kragujevac with her parents, where she enjoys to play with her younger sister, also in the photo. © 2016 Zoran Stamenković

June 8, 2016 News Release

Serbia: Children With Disabilities Neglected

Government Should Invest in Community-Based Services

A room in the ward for the “most severely disabled” in Veternik home for children and adults with disabilities. Children are placed in the same rooms as adults and up to eight people live in one room. © 2015 Emina Ćerimović for Human Rights Watch

May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Beyond Just a Feel-Good Refrain

May 26, 2016 Commentary

Displaced and Disabled: ‘Don’t Leave Us Behind’

A Syrian man with one leg walks through the deserted Greek island of Pasas after he arrived with others from Turkey.

May 24, 2016 Dispatches

No More Excuses: The Need for an Inclusive Humanitarian Response

Hamamatou, a 13-year-old girl polio survivor, was abandoned by her family after their village was attacked by anti-balaka forces in Central African Republic.

May 23, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Dignity at Stake for Refugees with Disabilities in Greece

Mud covers the deflated wheel of an Iraqi refugee’s wheelchair outside his tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 17, 2016.

May 19, 2016 News Release

People with Disabilities at Risk in Conflict, Disaster

Endorse Global Guidelines for Inclusive Humanitarian Response

Screenshot taken from video footage of an Afghan woman with her 15-year-old daughter who has multiple disabilities on the ground outside the Moria registration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. October 5, 2015.

May 19, 2016 Report

Leave No One Behind

Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Emergencies

Safi, 30, (right) a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, walks on highway M1 near Budapest, Hungary in an attempt to reach Vienna, Austria by foot.

May 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: UN Chides France on Mental Health Care in Prisons

May 16, 2016 Commentary

War is No Excuse for Depriving Children with Disabilities of an Education

April 29, 2016 Commentary

For Love of the Game: Include People with Disabilities in Sports

April 26, 2016 Statement

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

April 19, 2016 Statement

Statement to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee on Article 19

The Right to Live Independently and Be Included in the Community

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