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4 October 2012, Budapest. Last week the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities published its Concluding Observations for Hungary. »
7 September 2012, Budapest – Today the Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC) sent a letter to the Hungarian Minister of Human Resources about allegations of abuse and neglect in the “Ray of Hope Rehabilitation Institution”, which houses 116 people with intellectual and other disabilities in a gated facility on the outskirts of Budapest. »
31 August, Budapest – Today the prestigious International Journal of Human Rights published a special edition on “Disability and Torture”, which was edited by the Mental Disability Advocacy Center. The seven papers each address aspects of how law can be used to prevent abuses against people with disabilities, especially in places of detention. »
22 August 2012, Budapest and Moscow. As we announced in an information bulletin, on 27 June 2012 the Russian Constitutional Court held that the current law depriving people of legal capacity is incompatible with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution because it allows only plenary guardianship (full deprivation of legal capacity) and does not allow for a determination of the individual’s actual capacities. The law needs to be changed by the end of this year. »

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