Mexico City – July 22, 2015 – Today, Disability Rights International (DRI) released a report No Justice: Torture, Trafficking, and Segregation in Mexico. The report reveals the existence of a “blacklist” of institutions for children and adults with disabilities known to be abusive by Mexico City authorities – who nevertheless allow these facilities to continue operating without interference.
Priscila Rodriguez, director of the Women's Rights Institute of the Americas in DRI's Mexico office, was interviewed by Univision's Sunday morning public affairs show Al Punto.
Watch the segment (in Spanish) on Univision's website.
DRI's latest report, No Justice: Torture, Trafficking and Segregation in Mexico, is leading to change in Mexico City. The day after the report was released, Mexico City authorities agreed to immediately end the practice of sterilizing women with disabilities and ban the use of cages and physical restraints.
Channel 4 Unreported World Mexico: The Abandoned
DRI and activists from the Americas to testify March 25, 2014 before Inter-American Commission of the OAS on abuses of people with disabilities throughout the Americas
October 22nd, 2013 -- Washington, DC -- The New York Times today published an article profiling the Colectivo Chuhcan, Mexico's first human rights advocacy organization led by persons with psychiatric disabilities.
Mexico City, Mexico- July 16, 2013 - Disability Rights International (DRI) and partners in Mexico presented an amicus brief last week to the Mexican Supreme Court in the case of Ricardo Adair, a 24-year old Mexican youth with Asperger Syndrome. Ricardo has lived under the legal guardianship of his parents since 2007, when a judicial review decided he was unable to make decisions on his own.