Apostrophe reports "Rights of Children are Severely Violated in Ukraine"
Apostrophe reports, "Disability Rights International (DRI) has published a report on how the rights of children living in special boarding schools are observed.
DRI President, Laurie Ahern, Op-Ed in Huffington Post "Ukraine Orphanages Feeder for Human Trafficking"
"Governments, faith-based groups and churches, aid agencies and volunteer tourists, who donate cash and goods to orphanages or build and refurbish children's homes and other institutions, may be inadvertently funding human trafficking." - Laurie Ahern, DRI President
DRI Ukraine Investigation (2022)
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.
This is a video produced by DRI on the investigation.
Webinar: Protecting Children & Women with Disabilities from Institutionalization
Families Find A Way: Children with disabilities in war-torn Ukraine
New DRI Report - Families Find a Way: Children with disabilities in war-torn Ukraine
The disabled Ukrainians facing a lifetime of mistreatment and abuse – BBC News
Warning: Viewers may find some images in this report distressing.
BBC News has gained access to institutions in Ukraine where widespread abuse and mistreatment of disabled people has been uncovered. Around 100,000 children and young people live in these institutions, which pre-date the war with Russia. Human rights investigators say Ukraine should not join the European Union until it closes these institutions. The Ukrainian government has promised a series of reforms over the past few years, acknowledging that its system of institutionalisation needs to change.