Policy

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

HPOD workshop explores state-level and local developments

Older Persons’ Human Rights

Forging a path towards new international legal protections

A Resurgence of Disability Institutions?

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

The Human Toll of Medicaid Cuts

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

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

Right to Science and Access to Technology for Older Persons

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

Promoting the Dignity of Persons with Disabilities throughout the World

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

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

Ensuring Older Persons’ Human Rights

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

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

Book talk with HPOD Fellow Alex Green

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

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

Education for All

The Dominican Republic's pioneering inclusive education policy

Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities

Toward intersectional solutions to transform policing

Towards Effective Human Rights Protections for Older Persons

Building on UNITAR's Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing 2023 roundtables

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

Innovations in Inclusive Early Childhood Education

COSP CRPD 2022 side event

Universal Deaf Access Event Recording

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

Disability Rights and Crimes Against Humanity

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

Broadening Our Understanding of Disability Rights

From legal compliance to respecting dignity

Youth with Disabilities in Zimbabwe

Barriers to sexual and reproductive health

Pressing for Disability Rights

NCDJ and HPOD Links

Expanding Accessibility across Sectors

The overlapping roles of governments, businesses, and universities

Special Education Policies During COVID-19

Lessons from a Survey of United States School Districts

The Discordant Singer

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

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

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

How to Strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act after 30 Years

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

Harvard Law School Project on Disability provides legal support during pandemic

Harvard Law Today

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

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

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.

The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30

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

An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China

Volume 3

An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China

Volume 2

An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China

Volume 1

The New Disability-Inclusive Development

From the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Artificial Intelligence and Disability/Dependency

Equity, access, and interdependence

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

Alford delivers Cohen chair lecture

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

A blog post by Doron Dorfman

HPOD supports European Independent Living