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Webinar: Protecting Children & Women with Disabilities from Institutionalization

2 May, 2024

Watch the latest webinar hosted by DRI with the Global Coalition of Deinstitutionalization (GC-DI): "Equal Rights, Diverse Needs: Protections for children and women with disabilities and other high-risks groups under the UN Guidelines on deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies."

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Infanticide and Abuse: Killing and confinement of children with disabilities in Kenya

27 September, 2018

The product of a two-year investigation by Disability Rights International (DRI) into institutions and orphanages across the country. DRI visited twenty-one children’s institutions – both public and private – in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi and rural and coastal communities. There were approximately 3,400 children in the facilities investigated by DRI.

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Dragana Ciric Milovanovic, DRI-Serbia, speaks at UN on violence against women

27 November, 2017

Dragana Ciric Milovanovic, Director of DRI's European Regional Office, speaks at the United Nations in New York in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

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Twice Violated

1 April, 2015

The present report is based on the results of a year-long study carried out by Disability Rights International (DRI) together with the Women’s Group of the Colectivo Chuhcan –the first organization in Mexico directed by persons with psychosocial disabilities.

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Disability Rights International (DRI) research exposes egregious abuses against women with disabilities in Mexico City

24 February, 2015

Today DRI released a groundbreaking report, Abuse and Denial of Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Psychosocial Disabilities in Mexico, the result of a study by DRI and the Women’s Committee of the Colectivo Chuhcan.

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