 My exposure to practices of injustice or human rights violations, I'm sure it goes pretty much to our childhoods, because where I'm from, and this is the region of the Balkans, it's a very complex childhood, especially for the generations such as mine, because I think in all the countries of the region, the kids were surrounded by the realities of war, deep economic deprivation, poverty, but also this sentiment of excluding everyone who was different for some reason. And I think this also through school later on, having experienced this myself, this kind of exclusion and targeting based on your own diversity or the differences might have also contributed to this kind of a sense that there is an utmost value in human dignity, that there is this utmost value in diversity and equal respect for everyone as a human being. And then at some point, a couple of years later, I really got interested into disability in human rights due to a summer school that was organized in Hungary, I do remember it quite clearly by a civil society organization that just changed the way I perceive diversity and how I perceive disability and this kind of a social richness, as I like to call it. So I went a little bit more actively into civil society work, I really wanted to be connected to the ground, what really gave me an added perspective but really opened my eyes and put me in contact with the reality was when I joined the National Preventive Mechanisms Against Torture and started visiting the places of de facto detention, the places in which persons with disabilities resided and lived and still do in the majority of countries in the world. Most likely and usually against their own will, without having a simple say in where they live, how they're treated, how they live their lives, what they do on daily and when they eat, when they sleep, when they socialize, what clothes they wear and the contact with those realities in social care institutions in the Balkans and Eastern Europe and whatever we were reading and knowing about and advocating for, those were such revealing experiences and those were just insights that changed your life in a way. So the institutionalization as a particular aspect of a fight for equality and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities is one of the most important features. It really stays that to this day and I'm always very happy to have discussions on this topic, especially now when we have certain progress like the most recent guidelines on how institutionalization should be done at the national level and so on, because I do believe that this still represents one of the most inhumane and most serious forms of discrimination and violation of human rights today. Simply because those realities in which you live in group homes are questioning the core of your human dignity and the core of your existence as a human being and really not really treating persons who live there and who are placed in those institutions as a valid say-maker in any decision that concerns their own life and why this topic is still so relevant? Well, the practices do say that institutional care is still largely predominant in comparison to independent living or living in the community, living equally with others and not being segregated, not being secluded, not being subjected to many other negative and violent practices. So I think this is why it is very important to keep this topic in focus because just due to the fact that it is so tough and so unpleasant for so many people and it does not go in line with what the majority of general population think not to mention decision makers and that states, it is really easy to lose it from focus, to lose it from the center of attention. I think this is very important for those people not to be forgotten, for those children who live, many of them from the day of their birth in those secluded, closed institutions and spend their whole life and many of them die there, many of them spend their entire childhoods in there and are being tortured and subjected to a human-integrated treatment, these people should not be forgotten and these people should be allowed the access to the rights that they are guaranteed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and this is to really have a say to choose their own life and their own modernity of life, love, work. What also motivates me after having spent several years working now in the United Nations Human Rights is these small wins, these small progress and usually more often than not the progress that is tangible that you actually can measure and see is a result of a million steps, of a million back and forths of so many hours of work, days of work, negotiations back and forth and it's really complex, it cannot be measured in regular terms usually so those small wins when there are especially certain areas like I mentioned disability but also small wins in other policy areas those mean a lot, not only to us as people working on it but you can feel what kind of impact it has on right holders, on people in communities, on individuals that are being affected the most so the impact and just these small shifts, they really can be very motivating. I think regardless of where we are and where I am personally in our area of work who really always inspires me and brings this extra engine to all of our work are the human rights defenders and the human rights advocates. Regardless of where they are situated, they can be a single society, they can be human rights advocates sitting in the organizations, in the governments and there are many of them in the governments but I think their motivation, their dedication and their sheer optimism that fight for human rights is worthwhile and it makes sense it's something that I find truly inspirational. We can really try to motivate individuals and groups and peoples around us to just keep doing the simple stuff that contributes to human rights culture to accountability of institutions, to stopping impunity, to all those values that we are already advocating for, things such as don't ignore the domestic violence when you hear it through your walls or through your doors or you hear about it, report it, reach out to the victim, reach out to the children, do everything in your power on an everyday basis to preserve the environment. Go and vote. Promote voting or a responsible approach to voting among your friends and your family. Promote the value of diversity among your children, among your family members, regardless of the generation. This is also standing up, this is also standing up for human rights and values. Don't let certain jokes slide without you maybe using this opportunity to share a piece of mind, a piece of information. I really feel very close and very much triggered, I would say, by Article 25, which is the adequate standard of living, because it simply encompasses on one hand the right to exercise all those entitlements that lead ultimately to a dignified, adequate life, but on the other side it actually talks about the human rights duties of states in securing those basic values that are of utmost importance and essential for our life and for our dignity.