Croatia: End Confinement of People with Disabilities

Expand Restraints on a bed in a seclusion room for children in Lopača Psychiatric Hospital, in southwest Croatia.  © 2014 Emina Ćerimović/Human Rights Watch (Brussels) – Croatia’s government should end the confinement of children and adults in institutions, five disabled people’s and human rights organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Despite some initial progress, the process of moving people out of institutions and into community-based living has stalled, the groups said. Based on government figures for 2017, more than 7,800 adults and children with disabilities…

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