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Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Disability Rights International (DRI)
EU Transparency Register
258864648057-10 First registered on 23 Nov 2022
Goals / Remit
DRI was founded in 1993 to fight for the human rights of children and adults with disabilities placed in orphanages, psychiatric facilities, and other institutions, segregated from society throughout the world. To achieve this goal, we sought recognition of the same rights guaranteed to others under international law. Over two decades, DRI reports and media campaigns brought unprecedented attention to violence, torture, and other egregious abuses we documented. Our work saved the lives of thousands of children and adults tied to cribs, locked in cages, denied care, and languishing in terrible conditions. DRI helped draft the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD fulfills one of our founding goals – the recognition of disability rights as human rights – and we are proud to have helped start the international disability rights movement.
DRI is one of few organizations of people with disabilities (OPD)dedicated specifically to protecting chi (...)Main EU files targeted
DRI learned early on the need to support local activists to bring about sustainable change in their countries. Existing advocacy groups entirely overlooked this population – and people with disabilities rarely had the funding and support to advocate for their own rights. Thus, DRI set to the task of creating new organizations in the countries we investigated. DRI has trained and spun off advocacy groups run by people with disabilities, or families of children with disabilities, in eight countries (Hungary, Kosovo, Republic of Georgia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and Mexico). We trained many more mainstream human rights organizations who established their first disability rights projects. DRI has served as a consultant and expert to UNICEF, WHO, the US National Council on Disability (NCD), the UN Special Rapporteur on Disability, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
EU legislative proposals and policies targeted:
- MFF regulations
- Partnership agreements with EU member states tackling deinstitutionalization and pre-accession Action plans of Ukraine, in particular negotiation on Chapter 23 - Justice and fundamental rights
- EU child guarantee
- EU Disability StrategyAddress
Head Office
1825 K Street NW, Suite 950
Washington, DC 20006
UNITED STATESEU Office
1825 K Street NW, Suite 950
Washington, DC 20006
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 2 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Not member of any other body
Member organisations
DRI has an affiliate in Serbia - Mental Disability Rights Initiative MDRI-S www.mdri-s.org
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
2,778,691€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, Grants
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Ford foundation 317,136€ Contribution Holtheus Trust 491,239€ Contribution OAK FOUNDATION 486,343€ Contribution UBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION 305,640€ Contribution WELLSPRING PHILATROPIC FUND 922,199€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
Disability
Communication activities
RI participated in civil society consultations regarding new MFF regulations and contributed to human rights reports on Serbia and Ukraine. DRI also engaged in dialogue with DG Home and DG Region on situation of children in Ukrainian institutions as well as DG Employment and European Equality Commissioner on group homes in Bulgaria.
DRI organized events at the European Parliament with ENIL and Validity Foundation on group homes for persons with disabilities in Bulgaria. Findings and recommendations regarding EU policies are included in DRI's reports available at www.driadvocacy.orgOther activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
- Meetings