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Opponents to CRPD missed that boat many years ago.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/04/us-senate-misses-opportunity-disability-convention">US: Senate Misses Opportunity on Disability Convention</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 4, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The United States missed an opportunity to display global leadership on disability rights on December 4, 2012, as the Senate failed to approve ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/01/disabled-often-are-denied-information-about-sex-and-hiv">The disabled often are denied information about sex and HIV</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 1, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Over a billion people — 15 percent of the world’s population — live with a disability. These numbers should confer power and authority in decision making about all aspects of their lives, including to HIV and AIDS. Yet people with disabilities have been largely ignored in the global response to HIV.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/19/malta-mandate-reform">Malta: A mandate for reform</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 19, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Malta should be proud of its recent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a crucial tool for protecting the rights of more than one billion people with disabilities worldwide. As the Government begins to integrate the convention into its laws and policies, it should understand that the protections apply to the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who linger in immigration detention in Malta each year.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/09/ghana-grapples-mental-health">Ghana Grapples with Mental Health</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Oct 8, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">When we met Elijah early this year in Ghana, he was chained to a tree at a “prayer camp.” Five months earlier, his family had him bound with rope and forcibly taken to the camp for “treatment.” Elijah told me that he had been chained to the tree ever since – the “healing” prescribed for the restlessness and insomnia that his parents and the camp’s spiritual leaders had decided was a mental disability.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/02/ghana-people-mental-disabilities-face-serious-abuse">Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Oct 2, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Ghanaian government has done little to combat such abuse or to ensure that these people can live in the community, as is their right under international law.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/20/un-human-rights-council-adoption-outcome-indias-upr">UN Human Rights Council: Adoption of the Outcome of India's UPR</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 19, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch welcomes the adoption of the outcome of the second Universal Periodic Review of India, which reflects a large number of important recommendations. However, Human Rights Watch regrets that India has failed to comprehensively address recommendations calling for an end to impunity and repeal of laws that have led to widespread human rights violations.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/11/human-rights-women-and-children-disabilities">Human Rights of Women and Children with Disabilities</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 11, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024024/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/11/un-set-plan-women-children-disabilities">UN: Set Plan for Women, Children With Disabilities</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 10, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Governments meeting at the United Nations about the needs of women and children with disabilities should develop a clear plan of action to promote and uphold their rights. 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