Funding from wealthy nations can greatly improve child welfare in poorer countries, but it will require political commitment from government leaders.
Posts Tagged “Judith Klein”
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Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: children, Georgia, Judith Klein, mental disabilities, USAID
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An investigation in Bulgaria has uncovered hundreds of deaths of children with mental disabilities. Will the people responsible be held accountable?
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: Bulgaria, deinstitutionalization, European Union, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, mental health
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Time stands still in institutions for people with intellectual and mental health disabilities in Macedonia, where the lack of care, abuse, filth and neglect are all miserably present.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: human rights, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, mental health, video
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In 15 years of working to get people with mental disabilities out of institutions, or preventing them from ever having to enter them, I’ve become more ambitious. If we can get 10 people out, why not try to close a whole institution and improve hundreds of lives, changing the entire system in the...
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: human rights, Judith Klein, mental disabilities, mental health
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While prejudice and discrimination against people with mental disabilities is sadly universal, European advocates have much to learn from their Kenyan counterparts, particularly with regard to sex education.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health
Topics: HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, Kenya, mental health, sexual education
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In almost every country where the Mental Health Initiative works, public officials often ask me for the latest developments in diagnosing people with mental disabilities. To be honest, I don’t know why assigning labels to people is such a universal concern.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: deinstitutionalization, Judith Klein, mental disabilities, Spain
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A Bulgarian journalist recently launched a website featuring the results of four months of investigation, conducted mostly undercover, in ten institutions for adults with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses in Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia. The conditions are appalling.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: Bulgaria, de-institutionalization, Judith Klein, mental disabilities, Romania, Serbia