From August 2009 through September 2010, DRI and the CMDPDH investigated psychiatric institutions, orphanages, shelters, and other public facilities that house children and adults with disabilities. This report documents violations of the rights of people with disabilities under the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and other human rights treaties ratified by Mexico.

Electric Shock and Long-Term Restraint in the United States on Children and Adults with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center.

Individuals with disabilities are subject to a broad pattern of discrimination and segregation in almost every part of the world. In most countries, people with disabilities and their families are socially stigmatized, politically marginalized, and economically disadvantaged.

The report is the product of three fact-finding investigations conducted in Mexico in July 1996, August 1998 and November 1999. During these missions, a team of attorneys and psychiatrists from MORI visited three long-term psychiatric facilities (Ramirez Moreno, Nieto, and Sayago) serving Mexico City and the State of Mexico.