ADDC :: Australian Disability & Development Consortium » paraguay http://www.addc.org.au ADDC is an Australian based, international network focusing attention, expertise and action on disability issues in developing countries; building on a human rights platform for disability advocacy. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Paraguay: Jorge and Julios story http://www.addc.org.au/2009/12/paraguay-jorge-and-julios-story/ http://www.addc.org.au/2009/12/paraguay-jorge-and-julios-story/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:53:13 +0000 admin http://www.addc.org.au/?p=408

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United Nations, January 2009

Behind closed doors of psychiatric institutions in many impoverished countries, too many children and adults with mental disabilities live their lives in suffering and isolation.

In Paraguay, autistic young men like Jorge and Julio have suffered at the hands of a system that has failed to understand and protect them.

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