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.
Charles Bronfman Prize Anniversary Spotlights Human Rights of Children with Disabilities
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.
DRI's Priscila Rodríguez speaks at UN Side Event on Strategic Litigation to Protect People with Disabilities
Webinar: Protecting Children & Women with Disabilities from Institutionalization
DRI Pushes for House Passage of International Children with Disabilities Protection Act
The International Children with Disabilities Protection Act protects children with disabilities to live and grow up in a family and avoid being placed in an institution or orphanage. It is everything we've fought for over 30 years.