Eric Rosenthal delivers commencement address at Georgetown Law Center
Watch Rosenthal's commencement address at Georgetown University Law Center here.
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DRI President Laurie Ahern on Experience Talks radio show
Listen to DRI President Laurie Ahern discuss how her personal background led her to DRI and her commitment to our work on Experience Talks, a radio show based in Los Angeles. Listen here: http://www.experiencetalks.org/listen.
Laurie Ahern is the winner of the 2015 Encore.org Purpose Prize.
CNN Should Reexamine Support of Orphanages -- DRI President Laurie Ahern
As in several previous years, CNN continues to reward ill-advised but well-meaning, caring people who build and staff orphanages in developing countries. By doing so, CNN is perpetuating an outmoded belief that orphanages are a safe refuge for children.
Eric Rosenthal receives award from Phillips Exeter Academy
DRI's Founder and Executive Director Eric Rosenthal is the 2015 recipient of the John Phillips Award from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Each year, the John Phillips Award recognizes an Exeter alum whose life demonstrates the school's ideal of goodness and knowledge united in noble character and usefulness to mankind.
The Visionaries premieres at Busboys and Poets
Disability Rights International is featured on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.
Watch now - Disability Rights International featured on The Visionaries on PBS
Disability Rights International will be profiled on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series that airs on PBS stations around the United States, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston, formerly of Law & Order.
Watch Part One and Part Two of The Visionaries on PBS.
Preview DRI in The Visionaries on PBS
Disability Rights International will be profiled on The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series, hosted by acclaimed actor Sam Waterston, formerly of Law & Order.
Disability Rights International urges the United States to ratify the UN Disability Convention
Disability Rights International (DRI) calls on our US supporters to take immediate action to push for Senate ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
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DRI’s Eric Rosenthal Appointed Georgetown University Law School 2015-2016 Drinan Chair in Human Rights
Georgetown University Law Center today announced the appointment of Eric Rosenthal, Disability Rights International’s (DRI) founder and executive director, to the 2015-2016 Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Chair in Human Rights.
Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommends a ban on shock devices used on children with disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center
April 25, 2014 – Washington, DC - Following testimony yesterday by Disability Rights International (DRI) and several other advocacy organizations, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on neurological devices has recommended a federal ban on electrical shock devices used to punish and control the behavior of children with disabilities– a practice condemned by the United Nations to be torture under international law.