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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Event: Activist Discusses Ukrainian Children’s Struggles with Disabilities

Event: Activist Discusses Ukrainian Children’s Struggles with Disabilities

By Brian Li January 20, 2023

Disability Rights International (DRI), an organization dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can fully participate in society, discussed the current plight Ukrainian children with disabilities...

Speaker Discusses Incarceration of Disabled People

By Charlotte Allen November 11, 2014

Talila Lewis, founder of Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf, spoke about the mass incarceration of disabled individuals at the fourth installment of the Lecture and Performance Series on...

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Three panelists spoke about the instiutional abuse that disabled people often face in a discussion on Tuesday.

Panel Talks Disability Rights

By Andrew Wallender October 31, 2014

A panel discussed the history of institutional abuse against the disabled as part of the fifth installment of Georgetown’s Series on Disability Justice in the Edmund A. Walsh Building on Tuesday...

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