Resources
Videos
Aging, Urbanization, and the Right to Food
The final event in UNITAR's yearlong roundtable series 'Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing'
The Human Toll of Medicaid Cuts
Threats to persons with disabilities' right to independent living in the community
Right to Science and Access to Technology for Older Persons
The third event in UNITAR's yearlong roundtable series 'Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing'
Access to Health Systems for Older Persons in Conflict Areas
The second event in UNITAR's virtual roundtable series 'Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing'
The Right to Work for Older Migrants, Refugees, and Stateless Persons
First of five events in UNITAR's virtual roundtable series 'Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing'
May 14, 2025
Events
Climate Change Is a Disability Issue
How to advance disability-inclusive climate practices, from classroom engagement to inclusive policy
Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities
Toward intersectional solutions to transform policing
Advancing Disability Climate Justice in the Courts
Assessing strategies for including persons with disabilities through litigation around the world
Towards Effective Human Rights Protections for Older Persons
Building on UNITAR's Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing 2023 roundtables
Strengthening International Humanitarian Legal Protections for Marginalized Groups
Accounting for children, women, and persons with disabilities
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
Access to Health and Social Care Services
UNITAR's fourth 2023 Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing roundtable event
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
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
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
Rights of Children with Disabilities in Africa
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 13, 2022
Events
Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
Harvard Law School Library Book Talk with Professors Vikram Patel and Michael Ashley Stein
The CRPD and the Global South
The Pike Lecture at Boston University School of Law featuring Professor Michael Ashley Stein
Mar 28, 2022
Mobilizing DPOs in Bangladesh
How a 2013 law has created advocacy avenues for disabled people's organizations
Global Disability Cause Lawyering
Perspectives from Leading Lawyers in the Movement
Mar 24, 2022
Events
Universal Deaf Access
How to Reshape Cultural, Academic, Architectonic, and Virtual Spaces
Mar 02, 2022
Events
Pressing for Disability Rights
How Journalists and Advocates Should Cover Today’s Challenges
Nov 09, 2021
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
Sep 22, 2021
Author: Pamela Molina Toledo
Translator: Hezzy Smith
Blog Posts
Making Rights Real
Education
Policy
Guachalá Chimbo v. Ecuador
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Vindicates Persons with Disabilities' Right to Receive Health on the Basis of Informed Consent
VIDEO Not Your Ritual Object:
Disabled Perspectives in Inclusive Liturgy and Spiritual Arts
Mar 24, 2021
Event Video: Persons with Disabilities' Right to Political Participation around the Globe
PERSPECTIVES FROM AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE U.S
Beyond Rights: Intersectional Disabled Movements & Disability Justice for Our Future
with Lydia X. Z. Brown
Sep 16, 2020
Blog Posts
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30
HPOD Executive Director Michael Stein says people with disabilities still face "malign neglect"
