Join Disability Rights International (DRI) for this UN COSP virtual side-event exploring the challenges that indigenous people with disabilities are facing in communities in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and the United States.
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To mark the forthcoming Children's Day in Mexico, on April 23, 2025, Disability Rights International and the Mexico City Institute for People with Disabilities organized the International Forum "Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: Perspectives, Rights and Challenges" set out to foster a space for dialogue and reflection of the diverse challenges faced by children and adolescents with disabilities and their support networks and families in different contexts.

NY Times Magazine - The Global Willowbrook: Humane treatment for the mentally ill is the newest goal of human rights activists, whose current target is Mexico's decrepit institutions

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Channel 4 Unreported World Mexico: The Abandoned

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My Central Oregon reports, "Lawsuit to be Filed Against Mexico for Alleged Abuses Against Disabled"

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TVNewser reports Why David Muir “Will Stay on the Case” of the Forgotten Children

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Several news organizations report on DRI's announcement to go before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to present cases of abuse and violations against people with disabilities.

Read their coverage here (in Spanish):

Animal Politico

E-Veracruz

"DRI announced that in the absence of progress and commitment from the Mexican State, it will go to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to present cases of "atrocious" abuses and violations against people with disabilities "committed with the consent of authorities.""

Read the full article here (published in Spanish). 

Read La Jornada's coverage (in Spanish) of DRI's latest Mexico report, At the Mexico-US Border and Segregated from Society.