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Human Rights Watch en Español @hrwespanol.bsky.social · 6d

🇲🇽 México: Una decisión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación pone en riesgo la participación significativa de las personas con discapacidad en la elaboración de las leyes que regulan sus derechos y determinan su futuro.
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México: La Suprema Corte arriesga debilitar los derechos de las personas con discapacidad

Una decisión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, el 25 de septiembre de 2025, pone en riesgo la participación significativa de las personas con discapacidad en la elaboración de las leyes que regulan sus derechos y determinan su futuro.

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · 6d

La @scjn.bsky.social tiene la oportunidad de afinar su criterio sobre consulta a personas con discapacidad. Es verdad que los criterios formales no deberían bastar para invalidar leyes, se debería ponderar entre la falta de consulta y el impacto a derechos humanos. hrw.org/es/news/2025...

México: La Suprema Corte arriesga debilitar los derechos de las personas con discapacidad

Una decisión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, el 25 de septiembre de 2025, pone en riesgo la participación significativa de las personas con discapacidad en la elaboración de las leyes qu...

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · 13d

I’m going to miss you, dear Andrew. I’m sure whatever you pursue will be full of brightness.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 13d

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump repeated unfounded claims that vaccines or Tylenol cause autism.

These statements risk pulling policymakers’ focus from the rights-respecting policies children with autism need and deserve.

Protecting Disability Rights Means Rebuking Harmful Autism Myths

In the 1950s, a so-called “refrigerator mother” theory falsely blamed autism on emotionally cold mothers, fueling decades of parental guilt and discrimination. That stigmatizing theory denied children...

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · 13d

En los 50, la falsa teoría de la “madre refrigerador” alimentó el estigma hacia familias de niñas y niños con autismo. Ahora Trump y Kennedy difunden ideas igualmente infundadas. Niñas y niños con autismo necesitan derechos; no mitos. hrw.org/es/news/2025...

Proteger los derechos de las personas con discapacidad significa rechazar los mitos dañinos sobre el autismo

En la década de 1950, la llamada teoría de la “madre refrigerador” culpaba falsamente del autismo a las madres emocionalmente frías, alimentando décadas de culpa y discriminación hacia los padres. Esa...

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · 14d

In the 1950s, the false “refrigerator mother” theory fueled stigma & denied children with autism support. Today, Trump & Kennedy repeat unfounded claims linking vaccines or Tylenol to autism—risking more fear, blame & discrimination. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Protecting Disability Rights Means Rebuking Harmful Autism Myths

In the 1950s, a so-called “refrigerator mother” theory falsely blamed autism on emotionally cold mothers, fueling decades of parental guilt and discrimination. That stigmatizing theory denied children...

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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · Jul 21

Maksym Chernyak came to the US from Ukraine seeking safety. He died in ICE custody. This is his story. www.hrw.org/report/2025/... 🧵

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Today, the UK government will ask MPs to railroad through social security legislation that makes cuts to disability-related benefits to the next stage.

@hrw.org joins 80+ other orgs asking MPs to reject the UCPIP Bill. It is bad news for human rights.

www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill
Monday 30th June 2025
We are coming together as organisations committed to fighting poverty,
providing advice, and supporting and championing the rights of disabled
people, their families, and carers. We stand firmly with disabled people and
their organisations in calling for the UK government to withdraw the UC & PIP
Bill and to undertake genuine dialogue with disabled people to shape
reforms centred on the rights and dignity that all disabled people need and
deserve.
At a time when the share of GDP spent on working-age social security has
remained stable for the last ten years, cutting the incomes of disabled people
is a political choice. There is time for the government to pursue alternatives.
If this Bill is voted through, then by 2030 it will have cut PIP for more than
400,000 disabled people and Universal Credit for more than 700,000 people
who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. These numbers will
only increase in the years to follow.

This Bill has also been brought before parliament:
• Without consultation with disabled people
• Without any assessment of its impact on health and employment
outcomes
• Before the planned review of the PIP assessment has properly begun
its work
• Without knowing how the outcome of the PIP review may affect these
reforms
The changes announced last week and the compressed timetable for scrutiny
mean that MPs will only have a single day to debate or amend the new
provisions. There is too much at stake for disabled people for this Bill to be
rushed through without the opportunity for meaningful challenge or
scrutiny. We urge all MPs to vote against this Bill at Second Reading.

Signatories
Acts 435
Action for Children
Amnesty International
British Association of Social
Workers
Camphill Village Trust
Centre for Mental Health
Child Poverty Action Group
Children & Young People's Mental
Health Coalition
Children First
Citizens Advice
Community Money Advice
Crisis
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Debt Justice
Diabetes UK
Disability Benefits Consortium
Disability Law Service
Disabled People Against Cuts
End Child Poverty Coalition
Endometriosis UK
Engender
Fuel Poverty Action
Home Start
Human Rights Watch
Huntington's Disease Association
Imagine Act and Succeed
In Kind Direct
Independent Age
Independent Food Aid Network
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Kidney Care
Learning Disability Allies
Leonard Cheshire
ME Foggy Dog
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health UK
Mind
Money and Mental Health Policy
Institute
MS Society
National Autistic Society
National Children's Bureau
National Rheumatoid Arthritis
Society
National Survivor User Network
Neuroendocrine Cancer UK
New Economics Foundation
Oxfam
Parkinson's UK
Quaker Social Action
Rethink Mental Illness
Royal National Institute of Blind
People
Royal National Institute of Deaf
People
SeeAbility
Scope
Sense
Shelter
Sisters of Frida
St Mungo's
Stripy Lightbulb CIC
The Children's Society
The Food Foundation
The Poverty Alliance
The Salvation Army
Trussell
Turn2Us
Turning Point
Versus Arthritis
Voluntary Organisations Disability
Group
We Care Campaign
Whizz Kidz
Women's Budget Group
Young Lives vs Cancer
Z2K
4 in 10
Black Country Foodbank
Citizens Advice Scotland
Close the Gap
Food Plymouth
Hartlepool Foodbank
Includem
North East Child Poverty
Commission
One Parent Families Scotland
Parenting Across Scotland
Scottish Women's Budget Group
Shelter Scotland
Stay Safe East
The Scottish Pantry Network

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Jun 21

Dispatch for @hrw.org on the draft bill on social security in the UK.

The proposed benefit cuts will harm people with disabilities, worsen poverty, and undermine rights.

The government says the bill “will protect the most vulnerable.” Its own data belie that claim.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

Disability rights activists march in London against social security cuts as the UK’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves presents her “Spring Statement” or mini-budget, March 26, 2025. © 2025 Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · Jun 16

María, Elena Figueroa pública hoy en Yo, también un texto sobre su experiencia con el apoyo humano y la asistencia personal. Vale mucho la pena el texto. yotambien.mx/noticia/apoy...

Apoyo sí, dependencia no: hacia una vida con dignidad - Yo TAMBIÉN

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Human Rights Watch en Español @hrwespanol.bsky.social · May 12

Las principales empresas en EEUU clasifican erróneamente a los trabajadores gig como contratistas independientes, negándoles derechos laborales.

Estas empresas afirman ofrecer a los trabajadores "flexibilidad", pero acaban pagándoles menos del salario mínimo.
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EE. UU.: Grandes empresas violan los derechos de quienes trabajan en la economía gig

Grandes plataformas digitales de trabajo, también conocidas como empresas de la economía gig, que operan en Estados Unidos clasifican equivocadamente a quienes trabajan realizando pequeños encargos co...

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Human Rights Watch en Español @hrwespanol.bsky.social · Mar 7

Repensar el sistema de cuidados y apoyos en México 🇲🇽
Las personas con discapacidad necesitan apoyo para la vida independiente.

El Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2025-2030 omite una oportunidad clave: garantizar este derecho.

@rioscarlos.bsky.social de HRW en su columna ⤵️
www.hrw.org/es/news/2025...

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · Dec 1

www.yotambien.mx/actualidad/a... Hoy la ciudad de México se convierte en la primera entidad en eliminar la interdicción y reconocer el pleno derecho de todas las personas a decidir su propia vida.

La nueva protección de los derechos en la Ciudad de México: plenos derechos para la toma de decisiones, pero se necesita apoyo en la implementación | Yo También, discapacidad con todas sus letras

En la entidad este primero de diciembre se elimina la tutela y avanza en el reconocimiento de la capacidad jurídica; se reconoce la legal plena de todas las personas mayores de 18 años y su derecho a...

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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hi there. I’m new to this new social network. Hope everyone’s doing well in these horrible times.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Nov 20

At least 350 transgender and gender-diverse people have been murdered over the past year, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project.

This Trans Day of Remembrance should serve as a rallying cry for vigilance, protection, and action.

Trans Day of Remembrance Marked with Grim Murder Data

At least 350 transgender and gender-diverse people have been murdered over the past year, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project, a global initiative of Transgender Europe (TGEU).

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Nov 21

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri.

These warrants should push the international community to address atrocities and secure justice for all victims in Palestine and Israel.

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Alice Autin @aliceautin.bsky.social · Nov 21

ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders & a Hamas official break through the perception that certain individuals are beyond the reach of the law.

Governments should support justice globally and address atrocities for all victims in Palestine and Israel⤵️
www.hrw.org/breaking-new...

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