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  • INDIA: WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES LOCKED AWAY AND ABUSED

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    (New Delhi, December 3, 2014) – Women and girls with disabilities in India are forced into mental hospitals and institutions, where they face unsanitary conditions, physical and sexual violence, and involuntary treatment, including electroshock therapy without consent, Human Rights Watch said today. As one woman put it, they are “treated worse than animals.”
    Human Rights Watch found that women forcibly admitted to government institutions and mental hospitals suffer grave abuses and called for the government to take prompt steps to shift from forced institutional care to voluntary community-based services and support for people with disabilities.
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