Overcoming abuse, trauma, and exclusion in indigenous communities - UN COSP virtual side-event on June 9, 2025
Disability Rights International (DRI) hosted 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.
DRI sponsored UN COSP virtual side-event on June 9th - Overcoming abuse, trauma, and exclusion in indigenous communities
Disability Rights International (DRI) hosted 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.
Overcoming abuse, trauma, and exclusion in indigenous communities:
Innovative approaches to mental health and education
Monday, June 9 | 11:30-12:45 PM ET
Zoom Webinar
Speakers:
Introduction & Moderator:
International Forum "Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: Perspectives, Rights and Challenges"
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
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
Channel 4 coverage, "Mexico: The Abandoned"
Channel 4 Unreported World Mexico: The Abandoned
TVNewser reports Why David Muir “Will Stay on the Case” of the Forgotten Children
TVNewser reports Why David Muir “Will Stay on the Case” of the Forgotten Children
Multiple sources report Mexico ignores the grave abuses against persons with disabilities
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):
Desinformémonos reports DRI will denounce Mexico before the IACHR
"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.""