Disability Rights International

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

10,000€ - 24,999€

Financial year: Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2.5 Fte (5)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

0

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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
    - EU Negotiation process with Serbia and Ukraine

    - 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 Strategy

    Address

    Head Office
    1050 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 500
    Washington, DC 20036
    UNITED STATES
    EU Office
    1050 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 500
    Washington, DC 20036
    UNITED STATES

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    5

    Employment timeLobbyists
    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Not member of any other body

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    10,000€ - 24,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    10,000€ - 24,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    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.org

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    None declared

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