Thursday, September 21, 5:00 PM EDT

Sponsored by the Disability Under Siege Network: Disability Under Siege – Interdisciplinary Research Project focussing on education for people with disabilities in the Middle East

Our sister project "Deinstitutionalisation under Siege" is holding an inaugural meeting on 21st September. We invite anyone working on (de)institutionalisation in Lebanon and Palestine to join us and help us build our network of researchers, activists, and practitioners.

In January 2023, the Disability under Siege Network plus was awarded additional funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to create a network for deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities in the Middle East. It is estimated that up to 15% of people with disabilities live in institutional care globally - 150 million people (UN, 2018), and this is likely to be an underestimate. Empirical evidence has shown that institutionalisation results in negative outcomes for children and adults, which has been further heightened during the Covid-19 pandemic, where there were disproportionate numbers of deaths of persons with disabilities in care institutions. The issue of deinstitutionalisation is of pressing global importance as highlighted at the Global Disability Summit 2022.

This inaugural meeting will be the first opportunity to learn in detail about the project, our researchers from Lebanon and Palestine will introduce their work and share the challenges they face in conducting their research into de-institutionalisation in areas of conflict and crisis.

To register: De-institutionalisation under Siege online inaugural meeting Tickets, Thu 21 Sep 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite