C U RRI CUL UM V I T A E
G ÁB OR G OM B O S
Personal data
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Date and place of birth:
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Gábor Gombos
08.08.1961., Pécs, Hungary
H-1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 27/B., Hungary
ggombos@mdac.info
(+36 30) 288 1819
Working languages
English (fluent), Hungarian (fluent), Russian (good)
Current position/function
2009Co-Chair, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry,
Odense, Denmark
2009Editor of “Fogyatékosság és Társadalom” (Disability and Society),
the first Hungarian periodical on Disability Studies
2006Senior Advocacy Officer, Mental Disability Advocacy Center,
Budapest
2004-2006
Advocacy Coordinator, Mental Disability Advocacy Center,
Budapest
2004Deputy Chair, European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of
Psychiatry, Berlin
Main professional activities
2009-2010
Facilitator of the Hungarian Disability Caucus Alternative Country
Report on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Budapest
2008
Six months program in India to catalyse disability self-advocacy
and promote the implementation of CRPD in India
2007-2009
Civil society expert negotiator at the Ministry of Justice
consultations on the new Civil Code of Hungary, Budapest
2006-2009
Co-facilitator of a civil society coalition working on the new legal
capacity legislation and implementation of CRPD article 12,
Budapest
2004-2005
Temporary advisor, WHO European Regional Office, participation
in drafting the WHO European Ministerial Declaration and Action
Plan on Mental Health, Copenhagen
2004
Member of the drafting group of the Ministerial Decree on the
prohibition of the use of caged beds in psychiatric facilities
2003-2006
Representative of the International Disability Caucus at the UN Ad
Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
2000-2006
Member of the Human Rights Standing Committee of the European
Disability Forum, Brussels
2000-2003
Member of a fact finding mission by the Mental Disability Rights
International (Washington DC) in Kosovo
Educational background
1996
1986
Other main activities
2010
2009
200920082005-2007
2003-2005
2001-2003
200120001999-2001
Accredited course on dyscalculia at the Eötvös Loránd University,
Bárczi Gusztáv College on Special Education, Budapest
MSc in physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences,
Budapest
Research on institutionalization/deinstitutionalization of persons
with disabilities in Hungary
Co-organization of the World Congress of Users and Survivors of
Psychiatry (member of the International Disability Alliance),
Kampala, Uganda
Member of the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Soteria
Foundation (for persons with psychosocial disability), Budapest
Research on the negotiation history of the CRPD
Research on the human rights of children and adolescents in special
children homes in Hungary
Guest lecturer at the Central European University (Course on
mental disability law and advocacy)
Research on the human rights in child mental health services in
Hungary
Fellow of the Ashoka Innovators for the Public
One of the human rights defenders in the human rights educational
and awareness raising project “Speak Truth to Power”
Research on the human rights in long term mental health social care
institutions in Hungary
List of recent publications
- Catalysing Self-Advocacy: an Experiment in India, with Amita Dhanda, Bapu Trust, Pune,
India, 2009
- Human rights in special homes for children with psychiatric disabilities, co-author,
Hungarian Mental Health Interest Forum, 2007
- Human Rights in child mental health, editor and main author, Hungarian Mental Health
Interest Forum, 2003 (also published in the periodical Family, Child, Youth 2003/6)
- Not on the Agenda: Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in Kosovo, Mental
Disability Rights International, Washington DC, 2003
- Think Globally, Act Locally: Making and Implementing the Disability Rights Convention,
with Amita Dhanda, accepted book proposal, Oxford University Press
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