Info Nepal Information regarding mental health human rights in Nepal. Young Man in Nepal Forcibly Restrained and Drugged This folder contains information and photographs that were forwarded to MindFreedom. Akal was 21 when he was admitted to a mental health facility in December 2007. There he was chained to a bed and forcibly drugged. Thanks…
Info MFI Board President Celia Brown (sixth from left) stands with other MFI activists at the United Nations in 2008. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 56.8 kB Document Actions Print this
Info Myra Kovary, a member of MindFreedom International’s UN team and the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, is shown here playing the harp at a United Nations event in 2008. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 227.4 kB Document Actions Print this
Info From Toronto Star: Myra Kovary is a member of both MindFreedom International’s UN team and World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Myra is pictured here playing the harp at the celebration of the launch of the international binding treaty by the United Nations for human rights and disability. Click to view full-size…
Info Document Actions Print this The Toronto Star covered the United Nations celebration of the launch of a binding international treaty for human rights and disability. Pictured plyaing the harp at the event was Myra Kovary, a long-time activist member of both MindFreedom’s United Nations team and World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.…
Info A paper by Samantha Figueroa, available here as an MS Word document, on transitional justice and pychosocial rehabilitation in the aftermath of the civil war in Angola, Africa. angola-mental-health-samantha-figueroa.doc — Microsoft Word Document, 40Kb Document Actions Print this
Info A United Nations treaty — or “convention” — on disability has been ratified by enough nations. It went into effect on 3 May 2008 and is now legally binding internationally. MindFreedom psychiatric survivor activists worked for years with hundreds of other advocates to achieve this victory. United Nations disability treaty goes into effect 3…
Info Norman Sartorius, MD, past Director of the Division of Mental Health of World Health Organization, retired in 1993. Dr. Sartorius helped conduct studies comparing mental health recovery rates in poor and more developed nations. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 5.4 kB Document Actions Print this
Info The World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored major studies comparing how people recover in poor and more developed nations. The people in the poorer developing nations, on average, recovered at a far higher rate. Here is information about those studies. MindFreedom asked Professor Norman Sartorius to briefly summarize these studies, which he was directly involved…
Info MindFreedom International had a team led by board president Celia Brown inside the United Nations for several years working with disability groups from all over the world. The result: A United Nations treaty on disability rights. But now that treaty needs to be ratified by nations all over the world. Disability activists have created…