News
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Why Cambodians Never Get 'Depressed'
Culture affects how people understand and express mental disorders, and it is crucial to listen and understand patients in order to provide them mental health care.
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Don't forget health when you talk about human rights
Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released World Report 2015, their 25th annual global review documenting human rights practices in more than 90 countries and territories in 2014.
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The future of global mental health
Contrasting options are explored in a new two-paper series in current issue of The Lancet Psychiatry.
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Tears of Ishtar: women's mental health in Iraq
A call for more women psychiatrists to be trained to care for a population traumatised by decades of war.
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Taking a human rights approach to psychosocial disability
Fifth “Forgotten Europeans” event focuses on rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities.
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"They don't consider me as a person"
The report documents the human rights abuses that people with mental health issues experience in Ugandan communities, told in their own voices.
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Psychiatric hospitals in Uganda
This report presents the findings from the first human rights monitoring of psychiatric facilities in Uganda.