Stakeholders in the mental health sector have renewed calls for increased awareness, strengthened support systems and the elimination of stigma faced by persons living with psychosocial disabilities.

An advocacy project for social change and inclusive policies for persons with psychosocial disability (PPD) has been launched in Lagos. The project — RIRE which means re-address inclusion rights and ...

The pathway to reforming the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is littered with obstacles. Among the biggest challenges is the federal and state governments agreeing on responsibility and ...

Behind the iron gates of India’s prisons lies a quieter injustice, one that rarely makes it into police records, court files, ...

I was born with a rare disorder you have almost certainly never heard of, Moebius syndrome. This means I have facial paralysis and limited lateral eye movement. Moebius syndrome is highly visible but ...

In 2017, the Constitutional Division of the High Court of Lesotho delivered a landmark judgment in Moshoeshoe v. Director of Public Prosecutions. The court ruled that section 219 of the Criminal ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the “Committee”) ahead of its upcoming review of Indonesia. This submission ...

Structural barriers such as inaccessible infrastructure and lack of transport options affect South Africa’s reputation as a ...

Medical and Social Approaches to Rare Diseases To understand the value of a psychosocial approach to rare disease, consider our underlying assumptions about health and disability. The medical model is ...