Iran’s laws and its societal stigma has left its twelve million disabled citizens dependent on family and unable to achieve a better quality of life. In March 2018, the Iranian parliament adopted a “new disability law that increases disability pensions…
On November 7, 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided “N v. Romania” and declared that the State had violated the right to personal liberty of N, a man diagnosed with paranoid affective psychosis, who was detained in…
Investigations by Disability Rights International: Demonstrate A Worldwide Pattern of Abuse and Torture Which may Provide Grounds for Asylum and Protection from Deportation for People with Disabilities in the U.S. Eric Rosenthal[1] Throughout the world, people with disabilities are subject to…
On December 21, 2017, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released a report after an in loco visit to Guatemala, calling on the State of Guatemala to integrate into the community the people with disabilities detained at the Hospital…
I. Introduction* In recent years, the Inter-American Human Rights System has given particular attention to the protection of persons with disabilities. This is reflected in the way the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) has analyzed disability issues in recent…