Disability-specific forms of deprivation of liberty
The research team designed a set of indicators to collect data on this issue in 15 countries to understand the causes and triggers
Abstract
This report summarises research on disability specific forms of deprivation of liberty. Persons with disabilities are often hospitalized, institutionalized or diverted into other forms of detention from the criminal justice system without their consent, on the grounds of an actual or perceived impairment. These different forms of detention violate the right to liberty set out in article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but are largely unrecognized as human rights violations by the general public and by many states.
The research team designed a set of indicators to collect data on this issue in 15 countries and subsequently conducted fieldwork through local research teams to understand the underlying causes and triggers that result in these disability specific deprivations of liberty in 5 countries: France, Ghana, Jordan, Indonesia and Peru.
This work was supported by the Department for International Development’s’ Policy Research Fund
Citation
Centre for Disability Law and Policy, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, National University of Ireland, Galway (2019) Disability-specific forms of deprivation of liberty. National University of Ireland, Galway
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