Women’s Health and Justice Initiative empowers women with disabilities to fight against coercive, segregated, and paternalistic healthcare. We demand treatment, not torture.
Orphanages are no place
for children
Investigations
Documenting and reporting on the pervasive and abusive practice of institutionalizing children and adults with disabilities.
Advocacy
Global campaigns to end institutionalization and empower people with disabilities to make change in their own societies.
Strategic Litigation
To protect victims of abuse and ensure their full inclusion in society through international human rights bodies.
Latest Updates
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To the U.S. Government and all Governments Worldwide,
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MEETING REPORT AND ACTION STEPS NOW AVAILABLE (click read more below)
DRI and USICD hosted an international gathering bringing together disability, human rights, and international development leaders to discuss the impact on people with disabilities of Trump Administration foreign policy changes and funding cuts.
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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