Torment Not Treatment (2011)

Footage from a 2019 investigation by Disability Rights International into Bulgaria's child care system reveals that despite "system reforms" children with disabilities are still experiencing inadequate care, pervasive inactivity, and emotional neglect. Though larger institutions have been replaced by smaller group homes, the conditions are strikingly similar to institutions and orphanages the world over.

In late April 2022, Disability Rights International (DRI) brought a team of people with disabilities and family activists, including medical and disability service experts, to visit Ukraine’s institutions for children with disabilities. 

This is a video produced by DRI on the investigation. 

DRI conducted a year-long investigation in Mexico in 2010, culminating in the release of the report, Abandoned & Disappeared: Mexico's Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities. Within institutions, investigators identify a broad range of atrocious conditions and life-threatening forms of mistreatment.