Disability Rights International will be profiled on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston, formerly of Law & Order.
Priscila Rodriguez, director of the Women's Rights Institute of the Americas in DRI's Mexico office, was interviewed by Univision's Sunday morning public affairs show Al Punto.
Watch the segment (in Spanish) on Univision's website.
DRI's latest report, No Justice: Torture, Trafficking and Segregation in Mexico, is leading to change in Mexico City. The day after the report was released, Mexico City authorities agreed to immediately end the practice of sterilizing women with disabilities and ban the use of cages and physical restraints.
"Governments, faith-based groups and churches, aid agencies and volunteer tourists, who donate cash and goods to orphanages or build and refurbish children's homes and other institutions, may be inadvertently funding human trafficking." - Laurie Ahern, DRI President
Donors Need to Support Vulnerable Families not Rebuild Nepalese Orphanages
Op-Ed by DRI President, Laurie Ahern
Apostrophe reports, "Disability Rights International (DRI) has published a report on how the rights of children living in special boarding schools are observed.