In Germany
In the 1970s/1980s, in Germany, the autonomous disability rights movement, also called cripples movement, took confidently claim for themselves, the word cripple in the sense of a Reappropriation.
The cripple tribunal in Dortmund on 13 December 1981 was one of the main protest actions of the autonomous German disability movement (in confrontation with the established disability assistance) against human rights abuses in Nursing homes and Psychiatric hospitals, and as well against deficiencies of the local public-transport. Analogous to the Russell Tribunal by Amnesty International, the cripple tribunal has been denounced Human rights violations of disabled people.
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