Still at Risk
Death and Disappearance of Survivors of the fire at Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción (2021)
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last updated 10/13/2021
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Call to action to protect the right to family life & prevent institutionalization for all children
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Webinar recording: Group homes for children with disabilities? Disability rights perspectives symposium
Webinar recording: A Call to Action: Protect the right to family life & prevent institutionalization for all children
Webinar recording: A Global Controversy: International Human Rights Implications of Replacing Orphanages with Small Group Homes
Serbia’s Forgotten Children
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Serbian Ministers Urged to Resign Over DRI Report
Joint contribution of disability rights organisations to the 2021 EU-Ukraine Human Rights Dialogue
Crimes Against Humanity: Decades of Violence and Abuse in Mexican Institutions for Children and Adults with Disabilities
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Executive Summary – English PDF
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last updated December 7, 2020
Protecting Psychiatric Patients in Guatemala from COVID-19
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updated 5/8/2020
Urgent Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Disability
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updated 5/8/2020
Action Steps to Protect Children and Adults with Disabilities During COVID-19 Pandemic
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A Dead End for Children – Bulgaria’s Group Homes
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Bulgarian executive summary and recommendations (PDF)
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last updated 11/26/2019
DRI Video - A Dead End for Children - Bulgaria's Group Homes (3:48)
Al Jazeera - Europe's Recurring Shame: From Bulgaria to Brussels
Joint Shadow Report to the UN CRPD Committee
Alternative report by Mexican civil society organizations submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2019)
Colectivo Chuhcan A.C., Disability Rights International, EQUIS Justice for Women A.C., Information Group on Elected Reproduction (GIRE), Transversal, Action on the Rights of People with Disabilities A.C., and the Mexico Children’s Rights Network (REDIM)
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En el país, los discapacitados son detenidos en instituciones altamente peligrosas, según ONG
Recommendations to the UN General Assembly on Behalf of Children Without Parental Care
Autism-Europe, Child Rights International Network, Disability Rights International, European Disability Forum, European Network on Independent Living, Inclusion Europe, Inclusion International, International Disability Alliance, International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, TASH, and Validity Foundation
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At the Mexico-US border and segregated from society
Children and adults with disabilities subject to arbitrary detention, abuse and early death inside Mexican orphanages and institutions (2019)
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Updated May 30, 2019
Position paper: The right to live and grow up in a family for all children
December 2018
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last updated March 27, 2019
ENIL and DRI - webinar on right to family
Infanticide and Abuse
Killing and Confinement of Children with Disabilities in Kenya (2018)
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last updated April 11, 2019
BBC News - Infanticide in Kenya: 'I was told to kill my disabled baby'
The Guardian - Stigma Pushes Disabled Children Into 'Dangerous' Kenyan Orphanages
Still in Harm’s Way
International voluntourism, segregation and abuse of children in Guatemala (2018)
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Thomson Reuters Foundation - Guatemala's orphanage children caged, abused - report
Draft General Comment No. 5
Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017)
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International Aid Funds Institutionalization in Guatemala
Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017)
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After the Fire
Survivors of Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción at risk (2017)
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The Economist - Deaths foretold: A tragedy at a children’s home in Guatemala
New York Times - Children Who Survived Fire in Guatemala Are Still Not Safe, Report Says
Perspectives on Human Rights
A Mandate to End Placement of Children in Institutions and Orphanages: The duty of governments and donors to prevent segregation and torture (2017)
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No Justice
Torture, Trafficking and Segregation in Mexico (2015)
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Mexico City Bans Cages, Restraints at Facilities for People with Disabilities - ABC News
No Way Home
The Exploitation and Abuse of Children in Ukraine’s Orphanages (2015)
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Ukrainian Executive Summary (.doc)
last updated 9/6/2017
Voice of America covers DRI's findings of segregation, abuse and trafficking in Ukraine
Ukraine's disabled orphans face abuse, new report shows - Vatican Radio
Twice Violated
Abuse and Denial of Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Psychosocial Disabilities in Mexico (2015)
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Forced Sterilization in Mexico - Al Jazeera
Mexican women with mental health problems pressured into sterilisation - The Guardian
International Collaboration for Inclusion: A Study Funded by the US Department of State
Lessons from Ukraine (2014)
Left Behind
The Exclusion of Children and Adults from Reform and Rights Protection in the Republic of Georgia (2013)
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Georgia's disabled "locked in a box" - BBC News
The Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities in the new Mexican Criminal Justice System
(2013)
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Guatemala: Precautionary Measures Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
(2012)
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Guatemala hospital staff accused of abuse - Al Jazeera
Commission Calls for Guatemala to Protect Patients
Abandoned and Disappeared
Mexico’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2010)
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The Abandoned Ones: "Hell" at a Mexican Institution - ABC News
Abuses Found at Mexican Institutions for Disabled - New York Times
Torture Not Treatment
Electric Shock and Long-Term Restraint in the United States on Children and Adults with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center (2010)
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Shock tactics: treatment or torture? - The Guardian
Shock Therapy at Massachusetts School - ABC Nightline
The Rights of Children with Disabilities in Vietnam
Bringing Vietnam’s Laws into Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009)
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Torment Not Treatment
Serbia’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2007)
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Serbia's horrific institutions a relic of the past
Ruined Lives
Segregation from Society in Argentina’s Psychiatric Asylums (2007)
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Hidden Suffering
Romania’s Segregation and Abuse of Infants and Children with Disabilities (2006)
Behind Closed Doors
Human Rights Abuses in the Psychiatric Facilities, Orphanages and Rehabilitation Centers of Turkey (2005)
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Human Rights and Mental Health in Peru
(2004)
Foreign Policy and Disability
(2003)
Not on the Agenda
Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in Kosovo (2002)
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Human Rights and Mental Health, Mexico
Mexico (2000)
PACE
A Recovery Guide (1999)
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Children in Russia’s Institutions: Human Rights and Opportunities for Reform
Findings and Recommendations of a UNICEF Sponsored Fact-Finding Mission to the Russian Federation (1999)
Human Rights and Mental Health, Hungary
(1997)
Human Rights and Mental Health in Uruguay
(1995)