Kriti Sharma
Kriti Sharma is an associate director in the Disability Rights Division at Human Rights Watch and investigates human rights violations against persons with disabilities worldwide. She leads the organization's Global Campaign to End Chaining and wrote a report documenting the practice in 60 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. She has investigated and conducted advocacy across a range of disability rights issues and countries including Afghanistan, Australia, the Central African Republic, Ghana, France, Indonesia, and Kenya. Her areas of expertise include mental health, abuses in detention, human rights violations in prisons, gender-based violence, institutionalization, and humanitarian crises. Kriti holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BA in International & Comparative Politics, History & Social Sciences with a minor in International Law from the American University of Paris. She speaks Hindi and French.
Articles Authored
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December 3, 2014
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September 16, 2014
Break the Shackles of Stigma on Mental Health Care in Indonesia
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May 28, 2014
Dispatches: The Hope of an Inclusive Europe
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January 18, 2014
Dispatches: Stop the Forced Shocks in India
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December 4, 2013
An enabling environment for the disabled
Reports Authored
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“I Needed Help, Instead I Was Punished”
Abuse and Neglect of Prisoners with Disabilities in Australia
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“Treated Worse than Animals”
Abuses against Women and Girls with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities in Institutions in India