Preview DRI in The Visionaries on PBS
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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.
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Disability Rights International urges the United States to ratify the UN Disability Convention
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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
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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.
DRI calls for an end to international support for segregation of children worldwide in the New York Times
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June 18, 2014 – Washington, DC – Last weekend, the New York Times shined a light into the dark corners
DRI Op-Ed published in Chicago Tribune: Now is the time for international aid to protect Ukraine’s most vulnerable
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May 8, 2014 – Washington, DC – This morning, the Chicago Tribune published an Op-Ed by Disability Rights International (DRI) Executive Director Eric Rosenthal calling for urgent international action to protect the 85,000 children detained in Ukraine’s orphanages. Instead of funding the orphanages that segregate children from society, DRI is urging the United States and other international donors to support programs to help families who wish to keep their children out of institutions.
Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommends a ban on shock devices used on children with disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center
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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.
Unreported World Series 26: The Abandoned Mexico
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Ade Adepitan of Unreported World travels to Mexico to meet with disability activists of the Colectivo Chuchan who are going into psychiatric institutions to expose the abusive and inhumane conditions inside (captions available).
Eric Rosenthal, Founder & Executive Director of DRI, receives 2013 Charles Bronfman Award
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New York – June 3, 2013 – Eric Rosenthal, founder and executive director of Disability Rights International, is the 2013 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize.
DRI Testimony: US Action Needed to Protect Disability Rights Worldwide
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Washington, DC – April 23, 2013 - Today the US National Council on Disabilities (NCD) held a public hearing on US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). NCD invited Eric Rosenthal of Disability Rights International to testify about actions that NCD and the US Government can take to advance ratification and implementation of the CRPD. Read DRI's testimony here.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture calls on Obama Administration to take action to end torture at Massachusetts school for children with disabilities
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Washington, DC – March 5, 2013 - Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council yesterday in Geneva holding governments around the world accountable for violations of the UN Convention Against Torture. The report cited the United States, calling on the federal government to bring an end to the use of electric skin shocks and restraint at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts.