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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February 6, 2018
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July 18, 2017
An Indonesian Childhood in Chains
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May 16, 2017
Australia’s Cells of Horror
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October 11, 2016
Let People With Mental Illness Live in Dignity, Not in Shackles
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April 16, 2016
Dispatches: Turning the Tide on Shackling in Indonesia
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December 10, 2015
Dispatches: Shackling No Answer for People With Disabilities
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September 21, 2015
The Promise of Development: Ending Inequalities for People with Disabilities
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December 14, 2014
India: Support, Don't Abandon, the Mentally 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