The Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC)—a legal advocacy NGO based in Budapest

With great sadness, ENUSP learned about the tragic death of the son of singer Sinéad O’Connor, Shane O’Connor, a 17-year old boy, who was institutionalized in Ireland and placed under ‘suicide watch’ when he escaped and was found dead after committing suicide. Singer Sinéad O’Connor,...

Mental Health Europe (MHE) invites all of us to a webinar co-organised with the European Disability Forum (EDF), for the launch of an advocacy toolkit against the draft additional protocol to the Oviedo Convention. The event will take place online on 25 March 2021 at 3...

The National Association of Current and Former Psychiatric Users (LAP) in Denmark has been tracking the government's proposal to implement a Covid-19 vaccination passport required to travel abroad. In addition, the government has invited the Danish industrial, business and cultural sectors to collaborate on this...

Translated blog, 6 February 2021, by Jolijn Santegoeds, Mind Rights, Eindhoven the Netherlands See the Dutch original post The measures which have been taken in the Netherlands due to the Covid-19 pandemic call for a reflection. There are various fields of tension. Obviously the measures...

Translated blog, 30 January 2021, by Jolijn Santegoeds, Mind Rights, Eindhoven the Netherlands See the Dutch original post On 24 January 2021 riots occurred in the centre of Eindhoven and other cities in the Netherlands, as an act of protest against the Covid-measures, and to...

The issue of vaccination of persons with disabilities in institutions brings many thoughts and questions. The prioritizing of access to vaccination by persons with disabilities in institutions is understandable. While the vaccination of persons with disabilities in institutions may sound like a simple solution, in...