MindFreedom Australia demands that Victoria’s Mental Health Act be brought into compliance with CRPD!

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  This page was updated on 2/15/2021 Please support MindFreedom Australia, an affiliate of MindFreedom International, by signing this petition to modify/change the Mental Health Act in Victoria to be in alignment with the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD). The petition can be found at https://www.change.org/p/james-merlino-petition-victorian-government-to-modify-or-repeal-mental-health-act-in-line-with-the-crpd   Australians leaflet World Psychiatric…

WPA 2008 meetings

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Info This is a list from the World Psychiatric Association web site about their meetings, or co-sponsored meetings, in 2008. Disclaimer: this is not necessarily an endorsement of any activity in these events. [As of 20 Sept. 2007]. 2008 WPA CO-SPONSORED CONFERENCE (Zone 3) TITLE:            “5th National Congress, National Institute    Of Social Security &…

70 Years of Coercion in German Psychiatric Institutions, Experienced and Witnessed

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Info Keynote speech from June 7, 2007, by Dorothea Buck, Honorary Chair of the German Bundesver-band Psychiatrie-Erfahrener, at the congress “Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review”, run by the World Psychiatric Organisation in Dresden, Germany, June 6 – 8, 2007. This is in PDF format. buck-wpa-2007-e.pdf — PDF document, 78Kb Document Actions Print this