"Treated worse than animals"
Subtitle: abuses against women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities in institutions in India
By: [Kriti Sharma]
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781623132088
Subjects: Violence against; Civil rights; Girls; People with disabilities; Abuse of; Women's rights; Legal status, laws; Women
Other 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.
Notes: "December 2014"--Table of contents page.

"This report was researched and written by Kriti Sharma, researcher at Human Rights Watch"--Page 104.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Terms; title: Summary and Key Recommendations; title: Methodology; title: I. Background; title: II. Abuses in Institutions; title: III. Access to Justice; title: IV. Alternatives to Institutions/Community-Based Strategies; title: V. Legal Framework; title: Full Recommendations; title: Acknowledgments.