Perspectives on Human Rights
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A Mandate to End Placement of Children in Institutions and Orphanages: The duty of governments and donors to prevent segregation and torture (2017)
Our work in Deinstitutionalization
DRI's Worldwide Children's Campaign featured in the Guardian
Washington, DC – September 26, 2016 – DRI’s Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children is featured today in the Guardian. The Guardian article includes interviews with Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director of DRI, and Laurie Ahern, President, as well as photos from DRI’s investigations.
No Way Home: The Exploitation and Abuse of Children in Ukraine’s Orphanages
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A product of a three-year investigation by Disability Rights International (DRI) into the egregious human rights violations perpetrated against nearly 100,000 children – with and without disabilities – who are left to grow up segregated from society in orphanages, psychiatric facilities, residential boarding schools, and other institutions. For children with disabilities, orphanages are a gateway to lifelong institutionalization in abusive adult facilities.
No Justice: Torture, trafficking and segregation in Mexico
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Behind the closed doors of Mexico City’s institutions for people with disabilities, atrocious abuses are taking place that amount to nothing less than torture. Children and adults are denied treatment and are left to languish covered in their own urine and feces in filthy dehumanizing conditions.
Left Behind: The Exclusion of Children and Adults with Disabilities from Reform and Rights Protection in the Republic of Georgia
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This report is the product of a 3-year investigation by Disability Rights International (DRI) into the orphanages, adult social care homes and other institutions that house children and adults with disabilities in the Republic of Georgia.
This report documents violations of the human rights of persons with disabilities in the Republic of Georgia under international human rights treaties ratified by Georgia, including the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the UN Convention against Torture, as well as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Georgia has signed.
This report documents violations of the human rights of persons with disabilities in the Republic of Georgia under international human rights treaties ratified by Georgia, including the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the UN Convention against Torture, as well as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Georgia has signed.
NBC News Highlights DRI’s Work in Ukraine
Russia’s War Creates Orphanage Crisis In Ukraine. More than 11 million people have fled Ukraine as a result of Russia’s invasion. But many of most the vulnerable — mentally and physically disabled children — have been left behind.
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
Holly Valance Awareness Raising Video for DRIkids.org
DRI Ambassador Holly Valance produced this video to raise awareness of the rights of children and adults with disabilities after accompanying us on a trip to Eastern European orphanages.
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.
The disabled Ukrainians facing a lifetime of mistreatment and abuse – BBC News
Warning: Viewers may find some images in this report distressing.
BBC News has gained access to institutions in Ukraine where widespread abuse and mistreatment of disabled people has been uncovered. Around 100,000 children and young people live in these institutions, which pre-date the war with Russia. Human rights investigators say Ukraine should not join the European Union until it closes these institutions. The Ukrainian government has promised a series of reforms over the past few years, acknowledging that its system of institutionalisation needs to change.