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On February 26 the European Disability Forum, the European Network of (Ex)-Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Mental Health Europe, the Brain Injured & Families European Confederation and the International Disability Alliance issued this public statement to express our profound concern regarding the recent closure of...

The European Network of (Ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) and the European Disability Forum strongly condemn the abuse and severe human rights violations of the residents of the Pliskiv Psychoneurological Residential Institution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, recently uncovered by activists of the organisation “USER”. The...

On 25 June 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Ştefan, a quadriplegic teenager, on a case he and his mother brought against Romania for denial of the right to education. For years Ştefan Stoian was carried on his mother’s back so he...

On June 19, ENUSP well-known speaker and Board member, Jolijn Santegoeds attended a Conference organized by ENIL at the European Youth Center in Strasbourg. After her speech at the Conference she was interviewed about her opinion on the ways how it is possibile to improve...

On March 16, 2021 the hearing on “Deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities” by video-conference was organised by PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. The hearing was focused on deinstitutionalization, but also on coercion and the necessity to use “voluntary measures”. ENUSP’s two...

On May 24 the Committee on Bioethics approved the Draft Additional Protocol and decided to send it to the different committees/bodies of the Council of Europe for consultation, namely to the Steering Committee on Human Rights (CDDH), the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture...

ENUSP published an article “Perspectives for public policies in mental health. Sick or well – a citizen first: The (Ex-)User/Survivor Voice in Democracy” in L’Information psychiatrique in 2016. We've just got the permission to share it. Authors: Guadalupe Morales and Stephanie Wooley. The article in...

The picture illustrating this post is not taken in a mental institution. It's from a TV show. A French popular and long-standing game show "Fort Boyard" broadcast in 30 countries has decided to organize a show based on isolation and contention in psychiatry. Candidates are...

Not so long ago two Lithuanian businesswomen were caught organizing "training sessions" during which they would take heads of companies to interact with psychiatric patients. Course cost around 7.700 Eur, and participants of the course were not informed that they are going to psychiatric hospital...

A petition was initiated by one of ENUSP members in Norway. The aim of the petition is to urge Norway  immediately discontinue practices of forced treatment/hospitalization and reform laws allowing for deprivation of liberty and forced treatment on the basis of disabilities by replacing these practices...