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Este informe documenta violaciones graves y generalizadas a los derechos humanos de niñas, niños adolescentes y adultos con discapacidad en México. Los tratos inhumanos y degradantes, así como prácticas que equivalen a tortura son comunes en los orfanatos, las instituciones psiquiátricas, los centros de asistencia social y los albergues para personas con discapacidad en todo el país. Lee la versión accesible aquí.
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This report documents severe and pervasive human rights violations against children and adults with disabilities in Mexico. Within the country’s orphanages, psychiatric facilities, social care homes, and shelters for people with disabilities, inhumane and degrading treatment is common and many practices amount to torture. Read the accessible text here.
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Introducción
Disability Rights International (DRI) llevó a cabo dos investigaciones en Baja California, México –la primera en noviembre de 2018 y la segunda en febrero de 2019. La Comisión Estatal de los Derechos Humanos de Baja California (CEDH) acompañó a DRI en visitas a cuatro instituciones privadas en las que se encuentran niñas, niños, adolescentes y personas –incluidas personas migrantes– con discapacidad. En estas instituciones DRI documentó casos de tortura y abusos tales como el uso de sujeciones prolongadas y cuartos de aislamiento. DRI encontró particularmente preocupante la…
Introduction
Disability Rights International (DRI) carried out two investigation trips to Baja California, Mexico, in November 2018 and February 2019. DRI was accompanied by the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican State of Baja California (CEDH) and visited four residential, private institutions for children and adults – including migrants - with disabilities. In these institutions DRI found grave instances of torture and abuse, including use of prolonged restraints and isolation rooms. Particularly worrying was the high death rate of children with disabilities at an institution near…
Visionaries, a documentary series on public television in the United States, aired two episodes featuring the work of Disability Rights International (DRI) in uncovering the egregious abuses suffered by children and adults with disabilities living in institutions around the world. The first episode follows DRI investigators in Georgia as they follow up on a report they released in 2013 following a three-year investigation in that country. The second episode follows DRI investigators in Mexico who have recently published a report on institutions in Mexico City following a two-year…
This report from Disability Rights International (DRI) outlines the findings from a two-year investigation into the treatment of children and adults with mental disabilities in Mexico City, particularly those in the care of state-funded and private residential facilities. “Despite the fact that they have committed no crime, children and adults with disabilities are locked up and segregated from society,” says the report. Furthermore, the investigation uncovered egregious abuses at many institutions in the city, including those in which children are placed in cages or permanent restraints.…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This report, issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, examines the situation and needs of unaccompanied children who emigrate from Central America and Mexico to the United States, and offers recommendations based on those needs. The report also features demographic information, including the age, gender, family structure, language, education, and country/region of origin of these unaccompanied migrant children.
Four hundred and four children were interviewed in this study and asked to share their reasons for leaving their countries of origin. The most common responses…
This report is the product of a year-long investigation and collaboration between Disability Rights International (DRI) and the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH). From August 2009 through September 2010, DRI and the CMDPDH investigated psychiatric institutions, orphanages, shelters, and other public facilities that house children and adults with disabilities. This report documents violations of the rights of people with disabilities under the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (…