Human Rights Violations in Paraguay's Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital: Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
April 29, 2005
Alison A. Hillman, Director of MDRI's Americas Advocacy Initiative and a WCL alumna, filmed this award-winning documentary in a psychiatric hospital in Paraguay, where she found egregious human rights violations. Using the video to supplement their petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), MDRI and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) obtained an historic ruling to protect 460 people in the institution. A discussion and reception with MDRI Executive Director, Eric Rosenthal, and filmmaker and disability activist, Alison A. Hillman followed the film.
