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In this article, a Human Rights Watch researcher describes her personal experiences meeting adults and children in the Western Balkans who have spent their lives hidden away in institutions because they have a disability. These individuals are often subject to abuse, forced medical treatments, and limited freedom of movement. Children are especially vulnerable to abuse and suffer physical, emotional and intellectual delays as a result of isolation and neglect. The authors calls not only on governments to work towards deinstitutionalization, but on all people to end the pervasive…
The current Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic, has written a letter expressing concern about the placement of children with disabilities in institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to this article from the Sarajevo Times. "I am concerned that children with disabilities continue to be placed in institutions for social care throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the lack of adequate support to the families that would allow them to bring these children up at home, as well as of the necessary conditions to implement a better reconciliation of family and…