Lockdown in Chains

Dec 16 (IPS) – Kriti Sharma is a senior disability rights researcher  and Shantha Rau Barriga is the disability rights director at Human Rights Watch.Long before the Covid-19 pandemic grounded much of the world, lockdown, confinement, violence, and isolation was the daily reality for hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities around the world. Many are locked in sheds, cages, or tethered to trees and are forced to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate in the same tiny area, sometimes for years. Why? Simply because they have a mental health condition—a psychosocial disability.

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