Author

Contributions

  • Human Rights Watch (Organization) - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Human Rights Watch, New York, N.Y., New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

26,000 words, Guess

Page Count

104 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC362.4
  • LCCHV1559.I4 S48 2014

Alternate Titles

  • Abuses against women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities in institutions in India

Description

"This report documents involuntary admission and arbitrary detention in mental hospitals and residential care institutions across India, where women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities experience overcrowding and lack of hygiene, inadequate access to general health care, forced treatment--incluelectro convulsivelsive therapy--as well as physical, verbal, and sexual violence. In one case, a woman with both intellectual and psychosocial disabilities was sexually assaulted by a male staff member in a mental hospital in Kolkata. The report also examines the multiple barriers that prevent women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities from reporting abuses and accessing justice"--Publisher's description.

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