Shantha Rau Barriga

Former Director, Disability Rights Division

Articles Authored

August 10, 2018 Commentary

Why Are India’s Laws to Protect the Rights and Dignity of the Mentally Ill Not Working?
October 16, 2017 Dispatches

Ghana Breaks The Chains On Mental Health
April 24, 2017 Dispatches

What I Told My Son About Starving Children in Belarus Orphanages
March 7, 2017 Journal Article

Children with disabilities: Deprivation of liberty in the name of care and treatment
January 11, 2017 Commentary

Meryl Streep Leads by Example on Dignity for People with Disabilities
October 20, 2016 Dispatches

A Father’s Trauma in Greece
October 3, 2016 Dispatches

Will Pakistan Execute a Man With Schizophrenia?
July 5, 2016 Commentary

Restricted by Chains and by the Law
June 20, 2016 Commentary

We Need to Stop Treating People with Disabilities as Less Than Human
May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Beyond Just a Feel-Good Refrain

Reports Authored

May 15, 2012

“I Want to be a Citizen Just like Any Other”

Barriers to Political Participation for People with Disabilities in Peru
August 24, 2011

Futures Stolen

Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in Nepal
August 26, 2010

“As if We Weren’t Human”

Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda

Other Writing

Shantha Rau Barriga on The Huffington Post