We Want To Go Home (60 sec PSA)
60-second PSA for Disability Rights International's (DRI) Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children
BBC followed Disability Rights International into Ukraine institutions for children with disabilities
"The billions of dollars of international aid being pumped into Ukraine during the war should also be used to shut down orphanages, support families to care for their children and build a community that accepts disability," says Eric Rosenthal, Executive director of DRI.
Side event: Lessons learned from Ukraine: Implementing the right to live in the community for children and adults in institutions during a time of war and emergency
United Nations, 15th session of Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Friday, June 17, 2022 10:00-11:15 EST |
NBC News Highlights DRI’s Work in Ukraine
Russia’s War Creates Orphanage Crisis In Ukraine. More than 11 million people have fled Ukraine as a result of Russia’s invasion. But many of most the vulnerable — mentally and physically disabled children — have been left behind.
Left Behind in the War: Dangers Facing Children with Disabilities In Ukraine’s Orphanages
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In late April 2022, Disability Rights International (DRI) brought a team of people with disabilities and family activists, including medical and disability service experts, to visit Ukraine’s institutions for children with disabilities. DRI visited three facilities for children aged six to adult, and one “baby” home for children from birth to age six. DRI finds that Ukraine’s children with disabilities with the greatest support needs are living in atrocious conditions – entirely overlooked by major international relief agencies and receiving little support from abroad.
New Report: Left Behind in the War: Dangers Facing Children with Disabilities in Ukraine's Orphanages
In late April 2022, Disability Rights International (DRI) brought a team of people with disabilities and family activists, including medical and disability service experts, to visit Ukraine’s institutions for children with disabilities. DRI finds that Ukraine’s children with disabilities with the greatest support needs are living in atrocious conditions – entirely overlooked by major international relief agencies and receiving little support from abroad.
More than 200 endorsements of Call to Action to protect the right to family
At least 10 million children around the world grow up without the love and care of a family in orphanages, institutions and “residential care.” More than a billion dollars a year in development and charity money supports orphanages, residential care, and group homes.
Webinar recording: A Global Controversy: International Human Rights Implications of Replacing Orphanages with Small Group Homes
A Global Controversy: International Human Rights Implications of Replacing Orphanages with Small Group Homes
Call to action to protect the right to family life - webinar recordings
Reflections, practices and call to action in advance of the CRC’s Committee Day of General Discussion on children’s rights and alternative care
Call to action to protect the right to family life & prevent institutionalization for all children
The signatories to this call to action acknowledge the leadership of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in their efforts to harmonize international human rights standards concerning children deprived of parental care.