November 14, 2007
Full Article Web Link International Herald Tribune: Mentally Ill in Serbia Are Abused,
Report Says Full Article PDF
May 10, 2006
Full Article Web Link The New York Times: Romania's Orphans Face Widespread Abuse, Group Says Full Article PDF
December 5, 2005
Full Article Web Link MDRI's work featured in The University of Chicago Magazine Online. Article: Last Rights Full Article PDF
November 21, 2002
Full Article Web Link Washington Post: A Lens on the World; Musician Peter Gabriel Provides Human Rights Activists with Cameras for the Causes Full Article PDF
August 18, 2002
Washinton Post Editorial: To live in a psychiatric in Kosovo, a recent inquiry has found, is to live in a special kind of hell. Women are raped by male patients while staff watch. Mentally retarded patients sit in enforced idleness day after day without treatment or instruction. Reports of abuse are met with threats and retaliation. Filth is everywhere. People who need counseling are instead drugged. People who should be free are locked up for life. Full
Article PDF
August 8, 2002
Washington Post: Patients in Kosovo's UN run mental health facilities are subjected to attacks, rape and gross neglect, a two-year investigation has found. Full Article PDF
BBC News - A UN official said the mission was aware of the abuses, but blamed lack of resources. Full Article PDF
The Guardian: Patients at United Nations mental institutions in Kosovo have been raped and physically attacked under the eyes of UN staff, held in filthy and degrading conditions and threatened with punishment if they report the abuses according to a damning investigation published in New York yesterday. Full Article PDF
January 16, 2000
New York Times magazine entitled, "The Global Willowbrook" Full
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January 18, 2000
Washinton Post - article on the history of MDRI's work during our years of international activism. Full Article PDF
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