A conversation between Rupsa Mallik and Lisa Adams on integrating disability rights into sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) A conversation between Rupsa Mallik and Lisa Adams on integrating disability rights into sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocacy. They discuss the challenges faced by people with disabilities in accessing healthcare and the role of intersectional activism in addressing these barriers.
Yeni Rosa Damayanti is a fierce and visionary advocate for persons with psychosocial disabilities and is also a women’s rights activist. At home in Indonesia and in global venues, she speaks about how persons with psychosocial disabilities are highly stigmatised. Yeni and the organization she founded, the Indonesian Mental Health Association (IMHA) or Perhimpunan Jiwa Sehat in Bahasa, has established a platform to begin shifting community and governmental attitudes away from institutional and medically focused interventions towards community-based and user-led services that support a rights-based approach aligned with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Being the first and only organization in Indonesia led by persons with psychosocial disabilities, IMHA plays a groundbreaking and critical role in promoting the rights of this particularly marginalized group. They are fighting against inhumane practices and violence —seclusion, involuntary medical treatments, caging, and shackling — forced on persons with psychosocial disabilities.