My blogs

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Gender	Male
Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	Human Rights defender
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Introduction	Gábor Gombos, a former theoretical physicist and survivor of psychiatry, has become a world-renowned advocate for the rights of persons with psycho-social disabilities. For over more than the past decade, he has chaired Hungary’s only network of user organisations (Hungarian Mental Health Interest Forum), chaired the European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, and worked with numerous disability rights organisations as a consultant. Gabor was profiled in the project Speak Truth to Power as one of the 51 select leading human rights defenders around the globe. He is a Fellow of Ashoka: the Global Association of Leading Social Entrepreneurs. Gábor is MDAC’s Senior Advocacy Officer, leading our intergovernmental and national level advocacy. In this role he has extensively advised intergovernmental bodies, such as the Council of Europe and the United Nations on disability rights issues and has participated in the work of the UN Ad Hoc Committee which drafted the new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Interests	human rights, disability rights, user/survivor movement, theoretical physics, philosophy of science