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Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities

Toward Intersectional Solutions to Transform Policing

Apr 11, 2024   Events

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Advancing Disability Climate Justice in the Courts

Assessing Strategies for Including Persons with Disabilities through Litigation around the World

Mar 25, 2024   Author: Hezzy Smith   Events   Climate Justice

U.S. Government’s Fifth National Climate Assessment Highlights Outsize Climate Risks for Persons with Disabilities

Learn More at the Upcoming NCA5 Public Engagement Webinar on Human Health & COVID-19

Feb 14, 2024   Events   Climate Justice

Strengthening International Humanitarian Legal Protections for Marginalized Groups

Accounting for Children, Women, and Persons with Disabilities

Nov 02, 2023   Author: Hezzy Smith   Location: Zoom   Events   Peace & Security

Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

At HPOD Panel, Advocates, Scholars, and Institutional Survivors Discuss Efforts to Uncover an Untold Story

Oct 25, 2023   Author: Alex Green   Events   Making Rights Real

Access to Health and Social Care Services

UNITAR's fourth 2023 Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing roundtable event

Oct 25, 2023   Events   Health

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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Open House

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

Sep 06, 2023   Events

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Access to Labor Markets for Older Persons

UNITAR's second 2023 Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing roundtable event


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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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

Combating Isolation: The Idea of a Right to Belong

What Kim Samuel's New Book "On Belonging" Means for Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons

Nov 17, 2022   Events

Rights of Voters with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States

Ongoing Advocacy Efforts Amid a Wave of Suppression

Oct 04, 2022   Events

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Disability Climate Justice

Towards Evidence-Based Research on Disability and Climate Change

Sep 29, 2022   Events   Climate Justice

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HPOD’s Open House

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Sep 13, 2022   Events

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Rights of Children with Disabilities in Africa

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Apr 13, 2022   Events

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Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights

Harvard Law School Library Book Talk with Professors Vikram Patel and Michael Ashley Stein

Mar 29, 2022   Events   Health

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Global Disability Cause Lawyering

Perspectives from Leading Lawyers in the Movement

Mar 24, 2022   Events

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Universal Deaf Access

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

Mar 02, 2022   Events

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Harvard Law School Library Book Talk

The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law eds. Ilias Bantekas and Michael Stein

Nov 16, 2021   Events

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Book Launch: Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights

October 8 @ 10:00 am - 11:15 am

Oct 08, 2021   Health

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Disruptions of Dignity:

COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

Oct 08, 2021   Health

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Accessible Technology and the Developing World

Harvard Law School Library Book Talk


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CRPD Shadow Reporting

Opportunities for Self-Advocacy

Apr 14, 2021   Author: Hezzy Smith   Events   Self-Advocacy

Poster reads Parents with Disabilities: Rights, Remedies and the Road Ahead

Parents with Disabilities

Rights, Remedies & the Road Ahead

Mar 12, 2021   Events   Blog Posts

Fernald’s Legacy

Ensuring We Never Forget Disability Rights History

Mar 10, 2021   Events

COVID-19 & Disability:

A Holistic Examination of Pandemic Impact

Mar 09, 2021   Health

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Aging Veterans with Disabilities

A Cross-National Study of Policies and Challenges.

Oct 05, 2020   Events

A Community for All: An Honest Conversation about Disabilities

Executive Director Michael Stein on Momentum Boost

Aug 31, 2020   News   Events

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Women with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific

with Venus Ilagan, former Secretary General of Rehabilitation International

Oct 29, 2019   Events

Disability Law and Perceptions of Fakery: An Empirical Approach poster

Disability Law and Perceptions of Fakery: An Empirical Approach

Lunchtime Talk with Doron Dorfman

Mar 26, 2018   Events