Legal Issues and Politics

 

Disability Rights Advocates
DRA's mission is to ensure dignity, equality, and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities throughout the United States and worldwide. DRA's national advocacy work includes high-impact class action litigation on behalf of people with all types of disabilities, including mobility, hearing, vision, learning and psychological disabilities.
- www.dralegal.org

 

Mental Disability Rights International
MDRI, based in Washington, DC, is forging new alliances throughout the world to challenge the discrimination and abuse faced by people with mental disabilities, as well as working with locally-based advocates to create new advocacy projects and to promote citizen participation and human rights for children and adults.
- www.mdri.org

 

The Council for Disability Rights
On national, state, and local levels, the Council for Disability Rights advances the rights of people with disabilities. The Council promotes public policy and legislation, public awareness through education, and provides information and referral services.
- www.disabilityrights.org

 

dial UK
dial UK is a national organisation running a network of over 140 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people. Last year DIALs helped over a quarter of a million disabled people. dial UK provides local disability information and advice services with support and a range of cost effective services including: a disability information database and monthly information service, support for welfare rights advisers, management support and training.
- www.dialuk.org.uk