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Ensuring Disability Inclusion in the Global Climate Action Agenda

Call to Action ahead of the 28th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Oct 03, 2023   Author: Mackenzie Saunders   Events   Climate Justice

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Private Citizens’ Role in Enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act

HPOD's Professor Stein Previews Oral Arguments in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer before the U.S. Supreme Court

Sep 26, 2023   News   Making Rights Real

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Open House

HPOD's Annual Community Gathering to Connect and Preview Opportunities to Advance Disability Rights

Sep 06, 2023   Events

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Announcing HPOD’s 2023-24 Annual Fellows

Projects will tackle intersections with race, criminal law, institutionalization, health care, and global peace and security

Aug 03, 2023   News

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Access to Labor Markets for Older Persons

UNITAR's second 2023 Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing roundtable event


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Youth with Disabilities in Action

Spreading the word about alternatives to guardianship

Jun 23, 2023   Author: Kamisha Heriveaux   Blog Posts   Self-Advocacy

HPOD IN REVIEW

Spring 2023 Semester in Review

Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, Peace & Security, and more


Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing

UNITAR's 2023 roundtable series to promote the rights of older persons


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Movement and Cohesion in the Disability, Peace, and Security Agenda

Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Persons with Disabilities Side Event

Jun 15, 2023   Events   Peace & Security

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Professor Michael Ashley Stein Honored by Harvard University

Receives Inaugural Excellence in Accessibility and Inclusion Faculty Award

Jun 08, 2023   News

Alex Green

HPOD Fellow Alex Green Receives Marie Feltin Award

Boston Center for Independent Living's Annual Honor for Excellence in Advocacy and Service

Jun 05, 2023   News

Anne Fracht

Anne Fracht Appointed to Special Commission on State Institutions

Person with Disability-led Body Will Reckon with Massachusetts' Legacy of Institutionalization

May 05, 2023   News

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Disability & Sexual Violence

Women with disabilities global struggle for their right to intimacy

Apr 27, 2023   Author: Mackenzie Saunders   Blog Posts   Making Rights Real

HPOD IN REVIEW

2022

Year in Review


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The Right to Marry

Barriers to intimacy for persons with disabilities

Mar 31, 2023   Author: Mackenzie Saunders   Blog Posts   Making Rights Real

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Lunchtime Conversation with Andrew Leon Hanna

on "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs"

Mar 23, 2023   Events

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health

Strategies for avoiding potential data harms

Mar 22, 2023   Events   Health

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Honoring Judy Heumann

Founding mother of the U.S. disability rights movement


Towards Disability-Inclusive Climate Resilience

What researchers can do to close the disability climate change equity gap

Jan 09, 2023   Author: Hezzy Smith   Blog Posts   Climate Justice

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War Crime and No Punishment?

Gaps in International Humanitarian Legal Protections for Persons with Disabilities

Dec 16, 2022   Author: Hezzy Smith   Blog Posts   Peace & Security