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 for submissions to UN working group on deinstitutionalization
On behalf of the United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) and Disability Rights International (DRI), we are writing to let you know about a regional “consultation” being organized by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) to solicit input from people with disabilities and their allies on experiences and concerns related to the issue of deinstitutionalization.
Torture at Massachusetts school - Eric Rosenthal on Today Show
| "You don't have to be a human rights lawyer to see there is something deeply wrong here." - Eric Rosenthal |
| Last year, the FDA banned the use of shock devices as "treatment" for people with disabilities at t |
Webinar December 4th - Children with Disabilities in Adversity
Join us on Friday, December 4 for a webinar on Children with Disabilities in Adversity as part of the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Safety through Inclusion webinar series: Part 3
Human Rights in Light of Covid-19 in the United States:
Protection of People with Disabilities:
Safety through Inclusion & Emergency Deinstitutionalization
Thursday, June 18th, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Watch video - Webinar on Family and Community Integration of Children under CRPD
On April 30, 2019, the European Network on Independent Living and Disability Rights International held a webinar on ‘Family and Community Integration of Children under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): Implications for Group Homes and Residential Care of New Human Rights Standards and Findings from Research’.
DRI wins case to end torture
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued an immediate ban on the shock treatment used on children and adults with disabilities at a school in Massachusetts.
In November, DRI filed a petition against the United States before the IACHR to demand that the United States impose a federal ban on this practice and end the use of shocks on all residents at the school.
DRI files case demanding US end torture of children - story in the Guardian
In 2010, Disability Rights International filed an "urgent appeal" to the United Nations to stop the use of electric shocks as punishment against children with disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts.