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The Guardian covers DRI's latest Kenya Report

20 November, 2018

The Guardian covers DRI's latest report, Infanticide and Abuse: Killing and Confinement of Children with Disabilities in Kenya, documenting the intense pressure that Kenyan parents face - to murder their own children - if they are born with a disability.

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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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Call to action to protect the right to family life - webinar recordings

13 September, 2021

Reflections, practices and call to action in advance of the CRC’s Committee Day of General Discussion on children’s rights and alternative care

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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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DRI releases report on Kenya - infanticide and abuse

27 September, 2018

Nairobi, Kenya - September 27, 2018 - Disability Rights International (DRI) released a report today documenting the intense pressure that Kenyan parents face - to murder their own children - if they are born with a disability. Children with disabilities are considered cursed or possessed. And throughout Kenya many believe that having such a child is punishment for the sins of the mother.

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