Published by Disability Rights International Go to Original Source Washington, DC, Guatemala City – September 2, 2016 – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) has issued its Concluding Observations to the State of Guatemala. Based on Disability Rights International’s (DRI) reporting, the CRPD Committee has urged Guatemala to […]
Ghana’s disability act: serious gaps
The Ghana Federation of the Disabled has expressed serious concerns on the fact that the country’s Disability Act has no provisions for children and women with a disability, humanitarian services and political participation among a host of other aps. The Federation has therefore called on Ghana’s government to expedite action on a review of the Persons […]
UN calls on Chile to protect disabled people from torture
Geneva, 26th April: The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) expressed serious concerns on the continued use of neurosurgery, electroconvulsive therapy and prolonged isolation in cells without basic services in Chile. It went on state how ‘Chile must explicitly end and prohibit the use of these and other cruel, inhuman or […]