TCI

28/05/2026

📢 Happening Today!

On behalf of the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization (GC-DI), TCI is pleased to invite you to an upcoming webinar on:

“How to use International Complaints to Challenge Institutionalization under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)”

Institutionalization continues to impact the lives, autonomy, legal capacity, and community inclusion of persons with disabilities across the world. This webinar will explore how international complaints mechanisms under the CRPD can be used as tools for advocacy, accountability, and systemic change toward deinstitutionalization and community living.

The session will bring together disability rights advocates, OPDs, legal experts, and civil society representatives to discuss practical pathways for engaging with these mechanisms and strengthening rights-based advocacy efforts at national, regional, and global levels.

We are honoured to organize this discussion together with partners from the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization (GC-DI), including the International Disability Alliance (IDA), Inclusion International, ENIL, Disability Rights International, Centre for Human Rights, and Validity Foundation.

📅 Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026
🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (CET)
🔗Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31ofw6ykS6ekTTcUJ9-nHg

Click here to access the agenda:https://tci-global.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GCDI-Webinar-Inquiries.pdf

22/05/2026

Remembering Dr. Bhargavi Davar

Her work, wisdom, and advocacy continue to shape movements for justice, deinstitutionalization, and community inclusion across the world.

It’s been 2 years since her passing and we want to remember her for all her courage, vision, experience and her lifelong commitment to the rights, dignity, and inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities.

Her legacy continues to guide and inspire us, in this lifetime and beyond ✨

21/05/2026

📢 Update on the Research Assistant Position

Due to the overwhelming number of applications received, our review process is taking longer than initially anticipated. As a result, we are revising our timelines, and the new expected joining date for the position will be 1 July 2026.

We sincerely appreciate the interest, patience, and understanding of all applicants.

📢Applications for this role are now closed📢

📢UPDATE: We are truly grateful for the overwhelming response to this opportunity and have received over 1,500 applications.

To ensure that each application is reviewed carefully and fairly, we have decided to close the call earlier than originally planned.

The final deadline to apply is now 24 April, 11:59 PM IST. (Tonight)
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TCI is hiring for a short-term position of Research Assistant (Remote) to support drafting, structuring, and finalizing key reports emerging from our key activities and engagements.

We are looking for someone who can turn notes, recordings and raw inputs into clear, well-structured, CRPD-aligned documents and someone who works well with feedback, timelines and details.

We strongly encourage persons with disabilities and individuals connected to the disability movement to apply.

Applicants applying for the position are requested to share any 2-3 writing samples from previous works along with their resume.

📅 Duration: June–November 2026
🔗 For more information and the application process: https://tci-global.org/careers/

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14/05/2026

📢 On behalf of the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization (GC-DI), TCI is pleased to invite you to an upcoming webinar on:

“How to use International Complaints to Challenge Institutionalization under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)”

Institutionalization continues to impact the lives, autonomy, legal capacity, and community inclusion of persons with disabilities across the world. This webinar will explore how international complaints mechanisms under the CRPD can be used as tools for advocacy, accountability, and systemic change toward deinstitutionalization and community living.

The session will bring together disability rights advocates, OPDs, legal experts, and civil society representatives to discuss practical pathways for engaging with these mechanisms and strengthening rights-based advocacy efforts at national, regional, and global levels.

We are honoured to organize this discussion together with partners from the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization (GC-DI), including the International Disability Alliance (IDA), Inclusion International, ENIL, Disability Rights International, Centre for Human Rights, and Validity Foundation.

📅 Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026
🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (CET)
🔗Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31ofw6ykS6ekTTcUJ9-nHg

13/05/2026

At the 19th Session of the Conference of the State Parties, Transforming Communities for Inclusion (TCI), in partnership with the Center for Independent Living - CIL, Kathmandu and supported by Disability Rights Fund, is offering a virtual side event on“Centering youth, women, and gender diverse communities of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the deinstitutionalization agenda.”

The side-event will bring together allied movements and other multiple stakeholders, including state parties, multilateral agencies, donors, and human rights organizations to agree on collective actions for inclusion of youth, women, and gender diverse communities of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the deinstitutionalization agenda.

The side-event will also present key reflections from TCI’s consultations held with its members globally and will disseminate a Call to Action to guide state parties, grassroots organizations, and civil society for promoting an inclusive deinstitutionalization process.

Join us for these conversations through the following details:
🗓 9 June |Tuesday| 10:00 AM - 11.15 EST
💻 Platform: Online/Zoom
🔗 Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uMYUf0K0Qhi5btpHGj62XA #/registration

The side-event will be supported with language translations in Spanish, international sign interpretation and closed captions.
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27/04/2026

TCI is present at Women Deliver 2026 in Naarm (Melbourne) this week through two posters co-developed with CBM Australia. These posters aim to bring the voices and perspectives of women with psychosocial disabilities into a major global space on gender equality and inclusion.

They will be on display at CBM Australia's booth and they highlight topics and positionality crucial to us. One poster, co-authored with CBM Australia and Pacific Disability Forum, addresses disability rights within the care agenda. The other, developed jointly by TCI and CBM Australia, focuses on the barriers faced by women with psychosocial disabilities.

Women with psychosocial disabilities are too often left out of the spaces where decisions about our lives are made. Our experiences are shaped not only by disability but also by the intersection of gender, class, geography, and other identities and social locations. Through this contribution, we are trying to ensure these realities are visible and not overlooked.

We will continue to find ways to bring our voices into every space that matters, and we are grateful to CBM Australia for this collaborative opportunity.

27/04/2026

📢 Applications for this role are now closed. Due to the overwhelming response (1,700+ applications), the deadline was brought forward to ensure careful review. Thank you for the incredible response.

📢Applications for this role are now closed📢

📢UPDATE: We are truly grateful for the overwhelming response to this opportunity and have received over 1,500 applications.

To ensure that each application is reviewed carefully and fairly, we have decided to close the call earlier than originally planned.

The final deadline to apply is now 24 April, 11:59 PM IST. (Tonight)
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TCI is hiring for a short-term position of Research Assistant (Remote) to support drafting, structuring, and finalizing key reports emerging from our key activities and engagements.

We are looking for someone who can turn notes, recordings and raw inputs into clear, well-structured, CRPD-aligned documents and someone who works well with feedback, timelines and details.

We strongly encourage persons with disabilities and individuals connected to the disability movement to apply.

Applicants applying for the position are requested to share any 2-3 writing samples from previous works along with their resume.

📅 Duration: June–November 2026
🔗 For more information and the application process: https://tci-global.org/careers/

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22/04/2026

It's 20 years to the CRPD, but still today, young persons, women, and gender diverse persons with psychosocial disabilities experience distinct, yet deeply interconnected forms of discrimination, coercion, violence, and exclusion in different settings. The psychiatric, legal, and social control systems continue to dominate the lives of persons with psychosocial disabilities, shaping whose voices are heard, whose leadership is recognized, and who is permitted to participate in decision-making processes.

To strengthen our advocacy and to center the voices of youth, women, and gender diverse communities of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the global deinstitutionalization agenda, TCI Global, with the support of Disability Rights Fund, organized two online consultation meetings for its members and their networks in the Asia Pacific, Africa, Americas, and Europe regions.

It was a moment of excitement and solidarity for the movement to come and be together across different time zones, contributing to the discourse in various languages, supporting each other in the discussion, and collectively designing our 'Call to Action'. The CTA will serve as a guiding tool for our members to lead national-level advocacy and is also intended to be used at regional and global platforms. It will be launched towards the end of May, and we aim to disseminate it widely among stakeholders.

Attending long online meetings takes effort and dedication, and our members sat with us throughout the duration of these consultations. For that, we at TCI share our heartfelt appreciation and deep gratitude to each member. We also thank our members for doing the strong grassroots work in communities, for sharing their experiences and lessons, and for contributing to these consultations. We highly value these spaces where we come together for a peer learning exchange and have the opportunity to learn and reflect for our collective advocacy.

Look for more updates as we continue to take this forward.



Disability Rights Fund, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CBM Australia

21/04/2026

📢Applications for this role are now closed📢

📢UPDATE: We are truly grateful for the overwhelming response to this opportunity and have received over 1,500 applications.

To ensure that each application is reviewed carefully and fairly, we have decided to close the call earlier than originally planned.

The final deadline to apply is now 24 April, 11:59 PM IST. (Tonight)
——————————————

TCI is hiring for a short-term position of Research Assistant (Remote) to support drafting, structuring, and finalizing key reports emerging from our key activities and engagements.

We are looking for someone who can turn notes, recordings and raw inputs into clear, well-structured, CRPD-aligned documents and someone who works well with feedback, timelines and details.

We strongly encourage persons with disabilities and individuals connected to the disability movement to apply.

Applicants applying for the position are requested to share any 2-3 writing samples from previous works along with their resume.

📅 Duration: June–November 2026
🔗 For more information and the application process: https://tci-global.org/careers/

Please share within your networks

08/04/2026

A recent UN Inquiry has uncovered shocking and systemic abuses against children and adults with disabilities in Mexico, including in psychiatric facilities, orphanages, and group homes. These findings, reinforced by DRI’s decades of research, highlight how institutional systems continue to harm rather than support, and underline the urgent need for deinstitutionalization and community-based alternatives.

Join DRI, with support from the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization (GCDI), for a webinar on:
“Presentation of the Inquiry Report and recommendations issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mexico”

🗓 April 9
🕘 9:00 AM (Mexico time)
📌 Speaker details in the poster

🔗Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11a5cptkQwy-tOmtMDTwfSjJX8ZrcXR-iRED092-H7vY/viewform?edit_requested=true

🔗 Learn more: https://gc-di.org/latest-news/