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UN OHCHR Video on De-institutionalisation
Video by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights calling for the development of community-based services and the closure of long-stay residential institutions for children and adults with disabilities.
More ...Out of Sight - Human Rights in Psychiatric Hospitals and Social Care Institutions in Croatia
This report, published in October 2011, presents the findings of monitoring visits made to selected psychiatric hospitals and social care institutions in Croatia carried out by MDAC and SHINE in June 2010.
More ...Access to justice for persons with disabilities: Commissioner Hammarberg intervenes before the Strasbourg Court
“Persons with disabilities are all too often denied access to justice on an equal basis with others”, said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, submitting written observations to the European Court of Human Rights on a case concerning the treatment of a person with disability in Romania.
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