Mexico City Bans Cages, Restraints on Neglected, Disabled Children Christine Romo - ABC News
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The Forgotten Children of Mexico City: An advocacy group has worked with the city to provide better living conditions for children in its care. (ABC News)

A Mexico City official said the city would ban the use of restraints and cages on children under its care and work to get many into homes, after a Disability Rights International and ABC News joint investigation uncovered youth, some with disabilities, living in deplorable conditions in government-funded facilities.

"Effective immediately Mexico City will ban the use of restraints and cages," said Secretary Jose Ramon Amieva of the Ministry for Social Development.

...On July 22, advocacy group Disability Rights International, which has worked in Mexico for more than 20 years, released a report — "No Justice: Torture, Trafficking and Segregation in Mexico" — detailing its findings after a yearlong focus on the children, some with disabilities, growing up in state institutions.

In its report, Disability Rights International also said that it had obtained a so-called "black list" — dated November 2013 and created by the Mexican government — of 25 facilities where children continued to be left permanently, despite the Mexican government's declaring those sites abusive or in very bad condition.

For more information on Disability Rights International, go to DRIadvocacy.org.

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