News
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The Human Rights of People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
"Can Conflicts between Dominant and Non-Dominant Paradigms be Reconciled?"
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Orphanages are no place for children
The Washington Post published an Op-Ed written by Disability Rights International’s President Laurie Ahern calling for a paradigm shift in how the world acts to protect vulnerable children.
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A call for an international apology from all psychiatric professions and services to all indigenous peoples
"Starting by making the case for all australian mental health professions, institutions and services to apologise to all aboriginal and torres strait islands peoples".
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What developed countries can learn from developing countries in challenging psychiatric stigma
Alan Rosen, collaborative member of the Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform, sends us two papers about approaches to challenging stigma associated with severe psychiatric illness and disability.
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Facing up to restraint in mental health units
An editorial of last issue of The Lancet focus on the physical restraint of patients in mental health units.
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Global Health Watch 4: Call for Case Studies/ Llamdo para Estudios de Caso/ Cherche Études de Cas
The Global Health Watch coordinating group calls for case studies and testimonies to be included in the 4th issue of the Watch, which is officially scheduled for release in October, 2014.
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Psychiatry as a tool for coercion in post-Soviet countries
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union there have been repeated reports of a renewed use of psychiatry for political purposes. In this study, requested by the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights, Robert Van Voren analyses the current situation in mental health care in the former USSR.