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Rights Work: Human Rights Defenders in Montenegro
How do human rights defenders operate in a country where power “is captured by network of private interests”?...
Montenegro
Armed conflict, Discrimination, Justice
Rights Work: LGBT Advocates in Latvia
What are the major challenges that LGBT activists in Latvia encounter in their work?...
Eastern Europe, Latvia, Western Europe
Freedom of opinion & expression, Justice, LGBTQ
Celebrating CRPD: In Sign Language
Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world....
Colombia
Discrimination, Mental disability rights, Physical disability
Celebrating CRPD: Relevance for persons with psychosocial disabilities
Can the new UN Disability Rights Convention address stigma and fear that isolate people with psychosocial disabilities and keep them from realizing their fundamental rights?...
Global
Discrimination, Mental disability rights, Physical disability
Celebrating CRPD: Gender Perspective
Around the world, women are traditionally expected to take care of vulnerable, sick and family members with disability....
Global
Mental disability rights, Physical disability, Women's rights
Celebrating CRPD: A View from Bangladesh
Eighty percent of more than 650 million persons with disabilities worldwide live in developing counties....
Bangladesh
Discrimination, Mental disability rights, Physical disability
Disability Rights Advocate Hails the New UN Convention
Victor Pineda of "A World Enabled Media Initiative" celebrates the entry into force of the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), negotiated by disability rights advocates and th...
Global
Discrimination, Mental disability rights, Physical disability
IWD 2008: Sunila Abeyesekera on women human rights defenders
Women human rights defenders are confronted by difficult challenges when they work in male dominated environments and are often stigmatized and sometimes become victims of gender specific violations t...
Sri Lanka
Violence against women
IWD 2008: Neelanjana Mukhia (ActionAid)
Why is it important to understand the intersection of HIV/AIDS and violence against women (VAW) and what makes it a human rights issue?...
Global
HIV-AIDS, Violence against women
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