Disability Rights are Human Rights
Disability Rights International is a human rights organization dedicated to protecting the human rights and promoting the full community integration of persons with disabilities worldwide.
Support of the International Children with Disabilities Protection Act
This bill represents everything we’ve been working on for over two decades. All children — especially children with disabilities — need our support to live and grow up in a loving family. And they need protection against being placed in orphanages or other institutions.
— Laurie Ahern, President, Disability Rights International
DRI Litigation Docket 2023 (Public)
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DRI conducts litigation at the national and international level to enforce and expand the right of children and adults to live in the community with choices equal to others. Our cases seek immediate protections from neglect, denial of basic care, violence and trafficking and systemic changes in law and policies to address the root causes of segregation and abuse. See DRI's global docket of cases here.
Bipartisan Senators Introduce International Children with Disabilities Protection Act in US Congress
This bill represents everything we’ve been working on for over two decades. All children — especially children with disabilities — need our support to live and grow up in a loving family. And they need protection against being placed in orphanages or other institutions.
— Laurie Ahern, President, Disability Rights International
International Children with Disabilities Protection Act ; S.4982 — 117th Congress (2021-2022)
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WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today were joined by ten of their Senate colleagues in introducing the International Children with Disabilities Protection Act, new legislation to bolster U.S. support for children with disabilities, helping improve the capacity of local disabilities rights organizations and families of children with disabilities around the world to advocate for necessary reforms.
UN CRPD Committee Approves New Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including times of emergency.
We Want To Go Home (30 sec PSA)
30-second PSA for Disability Rights International's (DRI) Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children.
We Want To Go Home (60 sec PSA)
60-second PSA for Disability Rights International's (DRI) Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children
Residential Care Controversy: The Promise of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Protect All Children
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Conflicting interpretations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) send mixed messages on the safety and legitimacy of residential care, resulting in the replacement of large institutions with smaller ones often called ‘residential care’ or ‘group homes.’ This article demonstrates how the family inclusion mandate of General Comment No. 5 is rooted in the ‘human rights model of disability,’ fundamental to equal protection under the CRPD for all children with actual or perceived disabilities. The article proposes solutions to ensure full implementation of both the CRC and CRPD.
Leading international child welfare experts and clinicians
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Submitted to UN Committee on the Rights of Child
Day of General Discussion on Alternative Care
September 2021
Day of General Discussion on Alternative Care
September 2021