DRI President Laurie Ahern’s Op-Ed featured on the The Huffington Post
Donors Need to Support Vulnerable Families not Rebuild Nepalese Orphanages
Op-Ed by DRI President, Laurie Ahern
Community Forum on US Foreign Policy and Funding Cuts: Understanding the Impact on the Global Disability Community
Community Forum
February 13, 2025 at 10am ET
Summary & Action Steps to be Released Shortly. Watch for Posting.
Hear about fast moving developments in US government funding and human rights policy from former US government officials and share experiences from the US and global disability community.
ASL, ISL, CART, Spanish & Ukrainian interpretation provided
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DRI Founder, Eric Rosenthal, speaks at the UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue on disability and Sustainable Development Goals
Eric Rosenthal, DRI Founder & Executive Director, spoke at the recent webinar, Making the SDGs Work for and with Persons with Disabilities: A UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue on Tuesday, December 17th.
View the event recording here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k15pdgmjgt
Disability Rights During the Pandemic
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A global report on findings of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor.
This report has one central purpose: To raise the alarm globally as to the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on persons with disabilities worldwide and to catalyze urgent action in the weeks and months to come.
This report has one central purpose: To raise the alarm globally as to the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on persons with disabilities worldwide and to catalyze urgent action in the weeks and months to come.
DRI's Priscila Rodríguez speaks at UN Side Event on Strategic Litigation to Protect People with Disabilities
Watch the recording of the UN side event "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Strategic Litigation" featuring a presentation from Priscila Rodríguez on how DRI's recent work will have a profound impact on litigating the rights of persons with disabilities.
Webinar: Protecting Children & Women with Disabilities from Institutionalization
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."
Joint Position on Large Foster Care
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The Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization adopts a Joint Position on the use of large foster care as a form of institutionalization of children. This position concerns the use of large foster care on a broad scale as a matter of public policy and aims to promote an understanding of the right to family life for children that is in line with the UN CRPD and the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, Including in Emergencies.
Disability Rights are Human Rights
Disability Rights International is a human rights organization dedicated to protecting the human rights and promoting the full community integration of persons with disabilities worldwide.
Support of the International Children with Disabilities Protection Act
This bill represents everything we’ve been working on for over two decades. All children — especially children with disabilities — need our support to live and grow up in a loving family. And they need protection against being placed in orphanages or other institutions.
— Laurie Ahern, President, Disability Rights International