Nations Must Protect Their Children, Not Their Reputation
May 21, 2012--Washington, DC-- This morning, an Op-Ed by DRI President Laurie Ahern was published in the Washington Post.
Behind Closed Doors: Human Rights Abuses in the Psychiatric Facilities, Orphanages and Rehabilitation Centers of Turkey
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Inhuman and degrading conditions of confinement are widespread throughout the Turkish mental health system. This report documents Turkey’s violations of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (ECPT), the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other internationally accepted human rights and disability rights standards.