Search

Donate

DRI’s work and media campaigns have exposed to the world the horrors these children face. The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, social media, ABC, NPR, NBC, news and documentaries – just to name a few - have continually covered DRI’s work, including DRI’s opinion and editorial pieces, resulting in uninterrupted pressure on those who have the power to assist in making change.

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

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.
Register Here: bit.ly/3H0Kr9x

DRI sponsors upcoming UN COSP virtual side-event on June 9th - Overcoming abuse, trauma, and exclusion in indigenous communities

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

International Forum "Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: Perspectives, Rights and Challenges"

To mark the forthcoming Children's Day in Mexico, on April 23, 2025, Disability Rights International and the Mexico City Institute for People with Disabilities organized the International Forum "Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: Perspectives, Rights and Challenges" set out to foster a space for dialogue and reflection of the diverse challenges faced by children and adolescents with disabilities and their support networks and families in different contexts.

Community Forum on US Foreign Policy and Funding Cuts: Understanding the Impact on the Global Disability Community

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.

DRI Founder, Eric Rosenthal, speaks at the UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue on disability and Sustainable Development Goals

Eric Rosenthal, DRI Founder & Executive Director, spoke at the recent webinar, Making the SDGs Work for and with Persons with Disabilities: A UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue on Tuesday, December 17th. 

View the event recording here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k15pdgmjgt 

DRI Speaks Out Against Institutionalization of Children at First Global Ministerial Conference on Violence Against Children

DRI’s Associate Director, Priscila Rodríguez, spoke at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Violence Against Children on how institutionalization of children is a form of violence and it needs to stop. Children belong in families and governments have the obligations to support them to guarantee their right to grow up in a family.

Watch a recording of the event (in Spanish) here. 

DRI Calls for Urgent Global Action to End Institutionalization of Children

DRI’s Dragana Ciric Milovanovic addressed the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Committee Wednesday August 28 at 9-10am ET (3-4pm Geneva). 

The event marks the anniversary of the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization – human rights standards drafted with assistance of DRI and allies in the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization. 

Watch the recording here.