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Disability Rights International (DRI—formerly "Mental Disability Rights International"), is a Washington, DC based human rights advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the human rights and full participation in society of persons with disabilities worldwide. DRI documents conditions, publishes reports, and promotes international oversight of the rights of persons with disabilities. DRI was founded in 1993 by attorney Eric Rosenthal and jointly established by the Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Since 1993, DRI has expanded offices into 3 countries including Serbia, Mexico, and Ukraine. On June 27, 2009, MindFreedom International, announced that Laurie Ahern had been named president of DRI.〔() MIndfreedom Site〕 As a result of DRI's work:〔http://www.disabilityrightsintl.org/about/awards-accomplishments/〕 * Brought about worldwide recognition of disability rights as international human rights * Documented abuses and supported activists in 25 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East * Helped to draft the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, recently signed by President Obama and ratified by more than 70 countries * Exposed and closed abusive institutions and fostered the creation of human and dignified services, allowing people with disabilities to live in the community * Eradicated the use of cages in several countries where children and adults with disabilities were imprisoned for yearsUsed international human rights legal systems to protect the human rights of people with disabilities * Stopped the use of unmodified ECT (shock treatment without anesthesia) in Turkey to which more than 15,000 children and adults were subject every year * Pressured the European Union (EU) to add disability rights to the EU’s human rights considerations for EU membershipCreated disability advocacy movements in countries where there were none * Succeeded in including protection for children and adults with disabilities, warehoused and abused for a lifetime, under the United Nations Convention Against Torture ==Reports and Press Coverage== Since its founding, DRI has published reports on conditions and experiences of persons with disabilities including:〔http://www.disabilityrightsintl.org/media-gallery/our-reports-publications/〕 * Human Rights and Mental Health: Uruguay (1995) * Human Rights and Mental Health: Hungary (1997) * Human Rights and Mental Health, Mexico (2000) * Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities, Kosovo (2002) * Human RIghts and Mental Health in Peru (2004) * Behind Closed Doors: Human Rights Abuses in the Psychiatric Facilities, Orphanages and Rehabilitation Centers of Turkey (2005) * Hidden Suffering: Romania’s Segregation and Abuse of Infants and Children with Disabilities (2006) * Ruined Lives: Segregations from Society in Argentina’s Psychiatric Asylums (2007) * Torment Not Treatment: Serbia’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2007) * The Rights of Children with Disabilities in Vietnam:Bringing Vietnam’s Laws into compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009) * Torture Not Treatment:Electric Shock and Long-Term Restraint in the United States on Children and Adults with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center (2010) * Abandoned and Disappeared:Mexico’s Segregation and Abuse of Children and Adults with Disabilities (2010) * Guatemala: Precautionary Measures Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2012) * The Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities in the new Mexican Criminal Justice System (2013) DRI has had coverage of their work by the following newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post, CNN International, BBC World Service, ABC News, Voice of America, NPR, NBC, Univision,Independent (London), Ha'Aretz and others. Moreover, DRI has an article in UNICEF’s 2013 State of the World’s Children Report focused on children with disabilities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mental Disability Rights International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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