Disability Rights International

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Disability Rights International   (DRI)

    EU Transparency Register

    662845736824-04 First registered on 17 Dec 2019

    Goals / Remit

    Disability Rights International is dedicated to promoting the human rights and full participation in society of people with disabilities worldwide.

    Main EU files targeted

    Support for deinstitutionalisation process and community living for children and adults with disabilities in European member states and beyond; Multi-annual Financial Framework regulations; ESF+, IPA funding for pre-accession countries; Child Guarantee

    Address

    Head Office
    1825 K Street NW
    Suite 600
    Washington 20006
    UNITED STATES
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%1
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    Eric Rosenthal – DRI’s founder and Executive Director, Eric Rosenthal, JD, LLD (hon.) is widely recognized as a top legal expert in international disability rights and has received international awards and recognition for pioneering the field. He teaches international disability rights law at American University Washington College of Law and is the former Fr. Robert Drinan Chair in International Human Rights at the Georgetown University Law Center.

    Dragana Ciric Milovanovic – Dragana Ciric Milovanovic is Director of Disability Rights International’s Europe Regional Office. She is also a founder of Mental Disability Rights Initiative in Serbia (MDRI-S), an affiliate of Disability Rights International, founded in 2008 to support national advocacy movement of persons with intellectual, cognitive and psycho-social disabilities and perform oversight of their human rights in Serbia. Dragana is an author of numerous reports and publications on disability rights in Serbia.

    Priscila Rodriguez – DRI’s Associate Director, Priscila Rodriguez, LLM, is a Mexican attorney with extensive experience in international litigation. She is also head of DRI’s Women’s Rights Initiative for the Americas and her work has been recognized by Handicap International as 2 of the 5 top best practices in international human rights work for women with disabilities in the world.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Dragana Ciric Milovanovic (Director of European Programs)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Eric Rosenthal (Executive director)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    Mental Disability Rights Initiative - Serbia (MDRI-S) is an affiliate of Disability Rights International.
    http://www.mdri-s.org/about-mdri-s/

    MDRI-Serbia promotes citizen participation, awareness and oversight for the rights of persons with intellectual and mental disabilities, and participates in development of mental disability rights advocacy and self-advocacy movement in Serbia. The organization’s special focus is on those children and adults who are at risk of or who are already residing in social and mental health institutions, since they represent the most endangered and marginalized group

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

    The budget estimate was calculated from $US to EUR according to the exchange rate by xe.com
    Full financial report can be submitted to you by request

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    Currently implementing a project: Protecting Children Against Violence and Segregation in Bulgaria, Serbia and throughout the world, through which DRI aims to influence donors and governments that investments must be made in compliance with human rights standards that forbid any support for further segregation and discrimination of children and adults with disabilities. Children with disabilities suffer multiple discrimination based both on their age and disability and are most likely to end up hidden and forgotten in the labyrinth of social care institutions across the world. DRI will communicate a clear message that every child matter and must be equally protected from any form of discrimination, segregation, violence and mis-treatment.
    Recently, DRI has published a report "Bulgaria's Group Homes - A Dead End for Children" about abuses documented in group homes for children with disabilities in Bulgaria which received significant amount of EU funding. The report is available at the following link: https://www.driadvocacy.org/media-gallery/our-reports-publications/

    Findings from DRI’s report on Bulgaria and the video were presented to EU officials on two occasions:
    - Seminar on the role of small group homes in ensuring independent living conditions, held on November. The seminar was co-organized by DG Regio and DG Employment
    - On December 2nd, ENIL, DRI and Validity organized a roundtable “Group homes – A Defensible investment”, at the European Parliament, hosted by Julie Ward MEP. The event was organized as part of the 2019 European Disability and Development Week, coordinated by the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC).
    The roundtable focused on the so-called “Bulgarian Model” – the internationally promoted approach to deinstitutionalisation. DRI and Validity Foundation have presented their research into group homes for children and adults with disabilities in Bulgaria. This was followed by a discussion, with recommendations to the EU and other major donors and international organisations on how to ensure that their investments comply with the requirements set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

    DRI has also took part and provided comments in preparation of the EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) regulations with relation to position of children and adults with disabilities.

    Other activities

    Given challenges to rights enforcement, DRI is increasingly aware of the need to strengthen the disability community and educate donors and development organizations (especially regarding the issue of group homes placement for children). We are not giving up on the importance of traditional rights enforcement techniques and litigation as we believe these approaches will have long-term payoff. And in the interim, our allies have turned to DRI for help with the use of mainstream human rights mechanisms.

    To protect children, our advocacy has shifted toward a right to family. Our forthcoming Bulgaria report demonstrates the enormous dangers of internationally-supported programs moving children from orphanages to group homes. In addition to using human rights reporting to educate and engage the public, it has proven necessary to reinforce arguments with strong science and information about the experiences of people with disabilities and families. As the UN authorities work to resolve conflicts between the treaties, DRI is sought out as an expert in law, policy, and practice – including practical steps that can be used to integrate children with disabilities into families while avoiding group homes.
    DRI was able to gather support of 10 additional disability rights networks and a child rights network for the position paper on the right to family life for children. This was the first time that disability groups came strongly together on child tights issues which contributed to better representation of disability community in the discussion about the upcoming UNGA resolution on the rights of the child. The joint position paper was used as a basis for negotiations with the State parties by DRI and allies with presence in New York – mainly International Disability Alliance. The document is available here: https://www.driadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-09-12_UNGA-Right-to-Family-Life.pdf and in accessible format on DRI's website https://www.driadvocacy.org/media-gallery/our-reports-publications/

  • Meetings

    Meetings

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    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

    • Date 29 Jan 2020 Location Brussels
      Subject DRI and ENIL's views on EU disability policy and deinstitutionalisation.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli
      Portfolio Equality
      Attending
      • Silvan Agius (Cabinet member)
      • Nora Bednarski (Cabinet member)
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