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CNN Should Reexamine Support of Orphanages -- DRI President Laurie Ahern

19 January, 2016

As in several previous years, CNN continues to reward ill-advised but well-meaning, caring people who build and staff orphanages in developing countries. By doing so, CNN is perpetuating an outmoded belief that orphanages are a safe refuge for children.

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Eric Rosenthal receives award from Phillips Exeter Academy

27 October, 2015

DRI's Founder and Executive Director Eric Rosenthal is the 2015 recipient of the John Phillips Award from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Each year, the John Phillips Award recognizes an Exeter alum whose life demonstrates the school's ideal of goodness and knowledge united in noble character and usefulness to mankind.

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The Visionaries premieres at Busboys and Poets

15 September, 2015

Disability Rights International is featured on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.

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Watch now - Disability Rights International featured on The Visionaries on PBS

4 September, 2015

Disability Rights International will be profiled on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series that airs on PBS stations around the United States, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston, formerly of Law & Order. Watch Part One and Part Two of The Visionaries on PBS.

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Preview DRI in The Visionaries on PBS

26 August, 2015

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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Phillips Exeter Academy John Phillips Award (2015)

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Disability Rights International urges the United States to ratify the UN Disability Convention

12 November, 2014

Disability Rights International (DRI) calls on our US supporters to take immediate action to push for Senate ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Read more >>

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DRI’s Eric Rosenthal Appointed Georgetown University Law School 2015-2016 Drinan Chair in Human Rights

4 November, 2014

Georgetown University Law Center today announced the appointment of Eric Rosenthal, Disability Rights International’s (DRI) founder and executive director, to the 2015-2016 Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Chair in Human Rights.

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DRI calls for an end to international support for segregation of children worldwide in the New York Times

19 June, 2014

June 18, 2014 – Washington, DC – Last weekend, the New York Times shined a light into the dark corners

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DRI Op-Ed published in Chicago Tribune: Now is the time for international aid to protect Ukraine’s most vulnerable

19 June, 2014

May 8, 2014 – Washington, DC – This morning, the Chicago Tribune published an Op-Ed by Disability Rights International (DRI) Executive Director Eric Rosenthal calling for urgent international action to protect the 85,000 children detained in Ukraine’s orphanages. Instead of funding the orphanages that segregate children from society, DRI is urging the United States and other international donors to support programs to help families who wish to keep their children out of institutions.

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