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We need your help on a project to strengthen disability advocacy around the world – especially for children and adults detained in orphanages, psychiatric hospitals or other institutions. There is no substitute for getting inside closed facilities to meet people face-to-face and hear their stories. By documenting conditions, we expose abuses and hold governments accountable. We are striving for the day when no one is segregated from society because of a disability.

The Meeting Place - Issue 1 (April 2026)

The Meeting Place provides brief and accessible selection of recent highlights and opinions, relevant for children with disabilities. Led by Disability Rights International, and in collaboration with the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization (GC-DI) and Lumos Foundation, The Disability Rights Initiative for Children works to bring together the disability and child rights communities — creating a true meeting place for collaboration, shared learning, and coordinated action.

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's Priscila Rodríguez speaks at UN Side Event on Strategic Litigation to Protect People with Disabilities

Watch the recording of the UN side event "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Strategic Litigation" featuring a presentation from Priscila Rodríguez on how DRI's recent work will have a profound impact on litigating the rights of persons with disabilities.
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Joint Position on Large Foster Care

The Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization adopts a Joint Position on the use of large foster care as a form of institutionalization of children. This position concerns the use of large foster care on a broad scale as a matter of public policy and aims to promote an understanding of the right to family life for children that is in line with the UN CRPD and the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, Including in Emergencies.
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