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.
Washington, DC, Guatemala City - September 2, 2016 - The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) has issued its Concluding Observations to the State of Guatemala.
Holly Valance, DRI’s International Ambassador – and a UK based actress, singer and television host – and her husband Nick Candy, a developer and international entrepreneur, have been incredibly supportive and generous benefactors to the work of DRI for many years. They are both fiercely committed to the human rights of people with disabilities and have a special place in their hearts for the plight of institutionalized children.
DRI has found through its investigations that abuse against women and girls with disabilities – such as trafficking, forced sterilization, sexual violence, and physical abuse – is rampant, especially when women and girls are locked away and forgotten in institutions and orphanages.
Liberali reports, "Court found the rule of parking in Tbilisi to be discriminatory toward people with disabilities" (In Georgian)
NIN Press covers MDRI-S demand to stop institutionalization in article, "Residential institution Veternik between old habits and new rules"
Watch Rosenthal's commencement address at Georgetown University Law Center here.
"DRI announced that in the absence of progress and commitment from the Mexican State, it will go to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to present cases of "atrocious" abuses and violations against people with disabilities "committed with the consent of authorities.""
Watch ABC World News Tonight coverage of DRI's work in Mexico here.
Donate now to help DRI save the lives of children in Mexico.