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.
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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
Unlock the Cage - the most vulnerable need your help this holiday season
“I have seen abandoned and abused children in orphanages, state institutions and social care homes all over the world. I’ve seen children in cages in dozens of countries, children with no homes, children tied to beds and cribs for years. Children tortured and left to die.” Don’t children with disabilities around the world deserve as much attention and support? Will you help us help them?
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
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.