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Orphanages are no place
for children

Op-Ed for The Washington Post

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UN Online Side Event July 11: US Disability Community Responds to Attacks on Inclusion, Cuts in Funding
4 June, 2025

Join Disability Rights International (DRI) & United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) for this 2 part UN COSP side-event exploring international implications of recent developments in the United States and around the world.
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DRI sponsors upcoming UN COSP virtual side-event on June 9th - Overcoming abuse, trauma, and exclusion in indigenous communities
30 May, 2025

Join Disability Rights International (DRI) for this UN COSP virtual side-event exploring the challenges that indigenous people with disabilities are facing in communities in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and the United States.
Register Here: https://bit.ly/4kpNyGr

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Investigations

Documenting and reporting on the pervasive and abusive practice of institutionalizing children and adults with disabilities.

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Advocacy

Global campaigns to end institutionalization and empower people with disabilities to make change in their own societies.

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To protect victims of abuse and ensure their full inclusion in society through international human rights bodies.

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There are one billion children and adults with disabilities worldwide, most still segregated from society in abusive institutions, living in poverty, or left without educational and economic opportunity.

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