Macedonian Newsletter 2005/2 from Dejan Stevanovic, 22. April 2005: "We really have something to present to the world. Two our members life stories..."

The Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC)—a legal advocacy NGO based in Budapest, that protects the rights of people with mental health problems and people with intellectual disabilities—has an opening on our governing Board. MDAC is particularly open to applications for Board membership from the user community and within the user community, especially interested in applications from Eastern Europe. For more information on MDAC, consult http://www.mdac.info....

On February 13 2012 ENUSP joined forces with the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, European Disability Forum and International Disability Alliance. Together, we submitted a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case against Latvia. The case concerns the unlawful deprivation of liberty of a survivor of psychiatry. This is the first time that the Court has ever...

February 22, 2012 – Prague, Czech Republic. Lives that don’t matter A call for action The caging of human beings is a gross violation of international human rights law. Yet it continues to be acceptable ‘treatment‘ for psychiatric patients in the Czech Republic.  The European Network of (Ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) has learned of the recent suicide of a woman in a caged...