DRI calls for an end to international support for segregation of children worldwide in the New York Times
June 18, 2014 – Washington, DC – Last weekend, the New York Times shined a light into the dark corners
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Support Families, Not Orphanages.
August 10th, 2013 -- Washington, DC -- The Washington Post on Saturday published an Op-Ed written by Disability Rights International's (DRI) President Laurie Ahern calling for a paradigm shift in how the world acts to protect vulnerable children. Read the Op-Ed here.
Orphanages are no place for children
Published in The Washington Post
An estimated 8 million to 10 million infants and children live in orphanages around the world, and aid agencies, churches and governments provide hundreds of millions of dollars in the hope that they can help vulnerable children find sanctuary in these institutions. This hope is badly misplaced. Orphanages are not safe places for children.
DRI Ambassador Holly Valance Promotes Worldwide Campaign to End Institutionalization of Children
DRI Perspective, "Segregation and Abuse in Institutions," published in 2013 UNICEF Report
"The detention of children in institutions is a fundamental human rights violation. We can bring it to an end, on a worldwide scale, through a moratorium on new placements." -DRI Perspective in 2013 UNICEF State of the World's Children Report
Click here to read DRI's contribution to UNICEF's report.
DRI President Laurie Ahern named Viscardi Award Recipient
Albertson, NY- March 4, 2013- DRI's President Laurie Ahern is one of nine recipients of a new international award designed to identify and honor people living with disabilities for their work and influence on the global disability community of more than one billion people.
6 months old, and left to die.
Dear DRI Supporters,
Several weeks ago, I visited a baby house in Eastern Europe. It houses about 130 infants and small children, a third of whom are children with disabilities. Most babies are eventually returned to their birth parents, put into foster care or are adopted. But not the babies with disabilities. They have nowhere to go.
We Want To Go Home (30 sec PSA)
30-second PSA for Disability Rights International's (DRI) Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children.