Blog Posts

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

Accountability for Mass Institutionalization of Persons with Disabilities

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

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

Making Persons with Intellectual Disabilities’ Voices Heard before United Nations Treaty Bodies

Opportunities to enhance self-advocates' role in shadow reporting

Ensuring Older Persons’ Human Rights

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

Wading into the Mainstream

Building disability rights bridges across institutional silos to strengthen the global sustaining peace agenda

Voting and Disability Rights

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

Immigrants with Disabilities

Enabling international legal protections

Education for All

The Dominican Republic's pioneering inclusive education policy

Visibilizing Intellectual Disability in the Classroom

How HPOD is working to create opportunities for Harvard University students to learn from persons with intellectual disabilities

Inclusive Accountability

The current state of international criminal law and disability

In Memory of Sir Robert Martin

How self-advocates can contribute to international human rights governance

Towards Effective Human Rights Protections for Older Persons

Building on UNITAR's Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing 2023 roundtables

Promoting Disability-Inclusive Climate Action through Litigation

HPOD and allies urge Inter-American Court on Human Rights to take notice of evolving international standards

Experiences of Group Home Residents with Intellectual Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Self-advocate researchers shine a light on under-explored story

Youth with Disabilities in Action

Spreading the word about alternatives to guardianship

Disability & Sexual Violence

Women with disabilities global struggle for their right to intimacy

The Right to Marry

Barriers to intimacy for persons with disabilities

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

War Crime and No Punishment?

Gaps in International Humanitarian Legal Protections for Persons with Disabilities

Disability and Climate Change

Call for Digital Symposium Submissions

COVID-19 Experiences of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Group Homes

Self-Advocate Researchers' Reflections

The Right to Be Involved in Politics

What Self-Advocates Should Know

Self-Determination & Voting

Self-Advocates, Get Out There and Make Your Voices Heard!

Investigating Claims of Ill-Treatment by Persons with Disabilities

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

Disability-Inclusive Climate Action

Lessons from the Historic 2022 Flooding in Bangladesh

Supported Decision-Making Is about Us

Why self-advocates need to lead supported decision-making efforts in Massachusetts and beyond

Innovations in Inclusive Early Childhood Education

COSP CRPD 2022 side event

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

Disability, Human Rights, and Climate Justice

The urgent need for disability-inclusive climate action

Mobilizing DPOs in Bangladesh

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

Disability and Armed Conflict in Colombia

The need for inclusive disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration processes

Fall 2021 Semester in Review

HPOD's Events, Advocacy, Capacity-Building, and Research Activities

Disability Rights and Crimes Against Humanity

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

Respecting Autonomy in Health Care, Research, and All Areas of Life

What persons with disabilities want and how to make it happen

Mental Health, Human Rights, and Legal Capacity

Youth with Disabilities in Zimbabwe

Barriers to sexual and reproductive health

Disability and Diversity in Medical Education

The need to prevent ableism and discrimination in medical school admissions

Climate Change and the Right to Health of People with Disabilities

Lancet piece urges greater disability inclusion in climate change mitigation and adaption measures