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Towards Effective Human Rights Protections for Older Persons
Building on UNITAR's Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing 2023 Roundtables
Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities
At HPOD Panel, Advocates, Scholars, and Institutional Survivors Discuss Efforts to Uncover an Untold Story
Private Citizens’ Role in Enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act
HPOD's Professor Stein Previews Oral Arguments in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer before the U.S. Supreme Court
Access to Labor Markets for Older Persons
UNITAR's second 2023 Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing roundtable event
Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing
UNITAR's 2023 roundtable series to promote the rights of older persons
Investigating Claims of Ill-Treatment by Persons with Disabilities
The European Court of Human Rights Delivers Partial Victory to Roma Girl with Intellectual Disability
Transfer of Rights under the IDEA
What the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act says and the importance of alternatives to guardianship for youth with disabilities
Mobilizing DPOs in Bangladesh
How a 2013 law has created advocacy avenues for disabled people's organizations
Universal Deaf Access Event Recording
How to Reshape Cultural, Academic, Architectonic, and Virtual Spaces
Disability Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
The need to prosecute egregious and systemic human rights violations against persons with disabilities
Expanding Accessibility across Sectors
The overlapping roles of governments, businesses, and universities
The Discordant Singer
How Peter Singer’s Treatment of Global Poverty and Disability Is Inconsistent and Why It Matters
El acceso y uso de la propia lengua como derecho humano inalienable
Access to and use of one’s own language as an inalienable human right - In Spanish and in English
How to Strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act after 30 Years
Promoting Supported Decision-Making for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Aug 09, 2021
Authors: William Alford, Anne Fracht, Marie Hennessy, & Hezzy Smith
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Successes And Shortcomings: 30 Years Of The Americans With Disabilities Act
Exec Director Michael Stein speaks to GBH's Under the Radar
After 2020 Election, Disability Communities Are Hopeful for Change
HPOD's Senior Associate Ari Ne'eman joins WNYC's The Takeaway to discuss the hopes for change post-election.
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30
HPOD Executive Director Michael Stein says people with disabilities still face "malign neglect"
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China
Volume 3
May 28, 2020
Editor: William P. Alford
Editor: Mei Liao
Editor: Fengming Cui
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An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China
Volume 2
May 26, 2020
Editor: William P. Alford
Editor: Mei Liao
Editor: Fengming Cui
Publications
Making Rights Real
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China
Volume 1
May 26, 2020
Editor: William P. Alford
Editor: Mei Liao
Editor: Femgming Cui
Publications
Making Rights Real
In "Learning from the Past to Appreciate the Present," Alford draws from Confucius and Contemporary China
Alford delivers Cohen chair lecture
