On the edge of society Existing in a kind of limbo Between acceptance and lunacy Outside banal normality Strange thoughts indeed Like icicles melting Then falling and crashing Only to form again In the cold of night Figments of mind’s eye Anonymous assailants They’ve stopped at present All is silent....

Subject: Remember: a journey to myself I found my face again… i’d lost her for a while, unseen through pinched lips and visible cracks in my covering and a sadness ever present in the schema. I found her while looking through the past, shining a green light, a beacon pulling me...

REMISI (Indonesia Revolution and Education for Social Inclusion) is an organization that advocates for the rights of youth with psychosocial disabilities in Indonesia. Their blog highlights the urgent need for peer support groups, inclusive workplaces, and fair representation in policy-making to create a more inclusive society for Young persons with...

By Korean Disability Forum “FootAct” and “Deinstitutionalization Coalition of Korea” have been leading the cross-disability DI movement in South Korea, especially with “Deinstitutionalization Coalition of Korea” being the first coalition mainly consisted of members who are survivors of institutionalization themselves. In 2024, they wrote a declaration of DI rights and...

On November 13 & 14, 2024, Inclusion Canada and People First of Canada hosted the 15th annual federal policy forum on inclusion. This year’s theme was Roofs and Rights – Inclusive Housing Policy and People with Intellectual Disabilities. This event brings together policymakers, self-advocates, families, academics, and the disability community to...

Bhargavi Davar & Aleisha Carroll 2024 This ‘Disability Equity and Rights: Challenges, opportunities, and ways forward for inclusive development’ publication was prepared under the DFAT – CBM Inclusion Advisory Group Disability Inclusion Technical Partnership, an Australian aid initiative implemented by CBM Inclusion Advisory Group and the Nossal Institute for Global...

Recognizing the lack of political will is crucial in framing a theory of change for mental health care reform, especially when challenging entrenched systems like capitalism, colonialism, and psychiatry. This necessitates strategies that work both outside traditional political structures and within them to catalyze cultural and systemic change, driven by...

I have a friend, a young man with a psychosocial disability, who spent a considerable amount of his life in a prayer center. (You may call it a detention center because often time when families take their loved ones there, the expectation is that they are staying there for an...

The Initiative of Youth with Disabilities of Boka (IYDB -IMI Boke is implementing the project “Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Kotor”. Click here to read more about the project:  https://imiboke.me/all-news/deinstitucionalizacija-osoba-sa-mentalnim-invaliditetom-u-kotoru. Within the project, Collection and Analysis of Official Data on (non)existing Resources for the Deinstitutionalization of Persons with...

As we enter the 22nd century, disability continues to pose a serious challenge to human rights because there remains a societal perception of people with disabilities as burdens, individuals who are unable to be equal to other individuals and are frequently denied the right to participate in the general school...

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