Subotica reports on round table on the rights of children with disabilities
Round table on the rights of children with disabilities
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.
Eric Rosenthal receives award from Phillips Exeter Academy
DRI's Founder and Executive Director Eric Rosenthal is the 2015 recipient of the John Phillips Award from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Each year, the John Phillips Award recognizes an Exeter alum whose life demonstrates the school's ideal of goodness and knowledge united in noble character and usefulness to mankind.
The Visionaries premieres at Busboys and Poets
Disability Rights International is featured on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.
Watch now - Disability Rights International featured on The Visionaries on PBS
Disability Rights International will be profiled on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series that airs on PBS stations around the United States, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston, formerly of Law & Order.
Watch Part One and Part Two of The Visionaries on PBS.
Preview DRI in The Visionaries on PBS
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.
DRI's Priscila Rodriguez interviewed on Univision
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 Victory in Mexico on ABC World News Tonight
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.
DRI President, Laurie Ahern, Op-Ed in Huffington Post "Ukraine Orphanages Feeder for Human Trafficking"
"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
DRI President Laurie Ahern’s Op-Ed featured on the The Huffington Post
Donors Need to Support Vulnerable Families not Rebuild Nepalese Orphanages
Op-Ed by DRI President, Laurie Ahern