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 […]
Guatemala: advocacy to include disability and indigeneity in justice reforms
Commissioner Iván Velásquez and Maira Véliz, secretary general of the Ministry for Public Health presided over a discussion addressing constitutional reforms in the justice sector. Participating were representatives from Maya organisations and the justice and disability sectors. Guatemala’s El Periodico reported how in the meeting, organisations advocated for reforms in the justice sector that would have […]
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 […]
Challenging connections: Zika and disability in Brazil
The Aedes Egypit mosquito is currently Brazil’s number one enemy and the government has launched a concerted country wide campaign. Besides the severe dengue fever transmitted by the mosquito, last summer the vector brought a new virus, the Zika. After careful review of existing evidence, the US based Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]
Municipality in Colombia to train disability organisations
The Municipality of Santiago de Cali, Colombia will be pushing forward a training program in project development and international development. The course will be delivered to 30 organizations serving persons with disabilities. The Ministry for Territorial Development and Social Welfare will invest $55 million Colombian Pesos in this diploma course with modules covering project development in socio-economic areas, […]