Category: Making Rights Real

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Startups and Emerging Technologies As Drivers of Disability Human Rights?

Looking ahead to the CRPD’s third decade

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Alex Green Wins National Book Critics Circle Award

His biography of Dr. Walter E. Fernald tells a tale of innovation, discrimination, and recantation that resonates today.

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What U.S. Disability Advocates Are Doing amid Cuts to Critical Federal Assistance Programs

HPOD workshop explores state-level and local developments

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Older Persons’ Human Rights

Forging a path towards new international legal protections

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Aging, Urbanization, and the Right to Food

The final event in UNITAR’s yearlong roundtable series ‘Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing’

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A Resurgence of Disability Institutions?

Learning from the Nation’s troubled past to avoid future harms

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The Human Toll of Medicaid Cuts

Threats to persons with disabilities’ right to independent living in the community

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Major Changes to U.S. Disability Law and Policy Continue

Anticipating the likely consequences for the disability community of the largest-ever cuts to Medicaid

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Right to Science and Access to Technology for Older Persons

The third event in UNITAR’s yearlong roundtable series ‘Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing’

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Promoting the Dignity of Persons with Disabilities throughout the World

HPOD’s Founders Reflect on over 20 Years of Scholarship and Advocacy

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Accountability for Mass Institutionalization of Persons with Disabilities

Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions demands apology from Governor, among other critical reforms

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What to Know and Do about Ongoing Changes to U.S. Disability Law and Policy

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Ensuring Older Persons’ Human Rights

UN Human Rights Council sets the stage for expanding the international human rights legal framework

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Alex Green

Tracing the Origins of Mass Institutionalization of Persons with Disabilities in North America

Book talk with HPOD Fellow Alex Green

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Disability Rights Advocacy and Legalism in South Korea and Japan

Book talk with Professor Celeste Arrington

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Disability Inclusion’s Role in U.S. Foreign Policy

In conversation with U.S. Department of State Special Advisor Sara Minkara

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Disability Rights and Access to the Ballot

Safeguarding all persons with disabilities’ full and effective political participation

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Voting and Disability Rights

Safeguarding persons with disabilities’ right to full and effective political participation

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Immigrants with Disabilities

Enabling international legal protections

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Education for All

The Dominican Republic’s pioneering inclusive education policy

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Prison Bars

Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities

Toward intersectional solutions to transform policing

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Towards Effective Human Rights Protections for Older Persons

Building on UNITAR’s Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing 2023 roundtables

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Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

At HPOD panel, advocates, scholars, and institution survivors discuss efforts to uncover an untold story

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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

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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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Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing

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

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Disability & Sexual Violence

Women with disabilities global struggle for their right to intimacy

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The Right to Marry

Barriers to intimacy for persons with disabilities

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Honoring Judy Heumann

Founding mother of the U.S. disability rights movement

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Right to Education for Students with Disabilities

The Limits of Litigation

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Investigating Claims of Ill-Treatment by Persons with Disabilities

The European Court of Human Rights Delivers Partial Victory to Roma Girl with Intellectual Disability

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Innovations in Inclusive Early Childhood Education

COSP CRPD 2022 side event

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Transfer of Rights under the IDEA

What the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act says and the importance of alternatives to guardianship for youth with disabilities

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Mobilizing DPOs in Bangladesh

How a 2013 law has created advocacy avenues for disabled people’s organizations

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Universal Deaf Access Event Recording

How to Reshape Cultural, Academic, Architectonic, and Virtual Spaces

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Disability Rights and Crimes Against Humanity

The need to prosecute egregious and systemic human rights violations against persons with disabilities

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Broadening Our Understanding of Disability Rights

From legal compliance to respecting dignity

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Youth with Disabilities in Zimbabwe

Barriers to sexual and reproductive health

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Pressing for Disability Rights

NCDJ and HPOD Links

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Expanding Accessibility across Sectors

The overlapping roles of governments, businesses, and universities

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Special Education Policies During COVID-19

Lessons from a Survey of United States School Districts

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The Discordant Singer

How Peter Singer’s Treatment of Global Poverty and Disability Is Inconsistent and Why It Matters

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Accessible Technology and the Developing World

Harvard Law School Library Book Talk

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El acceso y uso de la propia lengua como derecho humano inalienable

Access to and use of one’s own language as an inalienable human right – In Spanish and in English

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Reckoning with the History of Institutions for Persons with Disabilities in Massachusetts

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How to Strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act after 30 Years

Promoting Supported Decision-Making for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Harvard Law School Project on Disability provides legal support during pandemic

Harvard Law Today

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Disability rights activists convoy down Beacon Hill after being charged with trespassing at the McCormick Building, which houses the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, in Boston, on Nov. 1, 2016.Line of people using wheelchairs,

Successes And Shortcomings: 30 Years Of The Americans With Disabilities Act

Exec Director Michael Stein speaks to GBH’s Under the Radar

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After 2020 Election, Disability Communities Are Hopeful for Change

HPOD’s Senior Associate Ari Ne’eman joins WNYC’s The Takeaway to discuss the hopes for change post-election.

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The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30

HPOD Executive Director Michael Stein says people with disabilities still face “malign neglect”

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An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China

Volume 3

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An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China

Volume 2

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An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China

Volume 1

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The New Disability-Inclusive Development

From the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

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William Alford, at podium, delivering Cohen Chair address

In “Learning from the Past to Appreciate the Present,” Alford draws from Confucius and Contemporary China

Alford delivers Cohen chair lecture

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Disability Law and Perceptions of Fakery: The Need to Restore Public Trust in Rights

A blog post by Doron Dorfman

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HPOD supports European Independent Living

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