On June 14th and 15th, 2019, an international conference was held at Sant’Eugenio Hospital in Rome to conclude HERO (Housing: an educational European ROad to Civil Rights). The three-year-long project was promoted and coordinated by the Department of Mental Health at ASL Roma 2, the largest...
Our representative, Jolijn Santegoeds, attended the meeting of DH-BIO held on 6 June regarding the Draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention. Please see the detailed report of Jolijn about the meeting in her blog here.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has just concluded a review of Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) and Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD) after the discontinuation of SSRIs and SNRIs (antidepressants). On Thursday 16 May, the safety Committee of EMA concluded that "sexual dysfunction, which is...
Podcast of MHE on compulsory measures in psychiatry and UN CRPD standards, involving Stephanie Wooley as one of the experts is available here.
Serious violation of patients' rights recently happened in Romania: the patients admitted to the Department of Psychiatry of the Targ-Jiu County Hospital were asked to strip and kiss, all for the amusement of the medical staff. The movie that appeared in the public space was...
It seems that Russia is planning discharge of the 45% of the current residents of psychoneurological residential facilities. They will be transferred to home care, to supported living or to the families that will take care of them. At least this is what the Minister...
The CoE's Development Fund approved a €11 million loan to the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina "for investments in psychiatric care. More specifically, it will finance the construction and modernization of six psychiatric clinics located in Banja Luka, Modriča, Sokolac, Višegrad, Sarajevo and Mostar." The...
ENUSP publishes the open letter in reaction to the latest issue of World Psychiatry (Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2019), an official journal of the WPA. We would like to express our concerns in regard to both its content, as well as the perspectives excluded...
ENUSP would like to express its gratitude for the financial support received by the French Confcap-Capdroits research programme to enable our representative to attend the latest meeting and country-specific briefings in Strasbourg 8-10 October to protest the draft additional protocol to the Oviedo Convention. The...
ENUSP together with EDF and 18 other organisations signs the open letter urging Member States to significantly improve the European Accessibility Act ahead of the next negotiations on 2 October. We demand that a strong European Accessibility Act is agreed upon before the next European...
all people are free to be themselves, are valued equally and treated with dignity,
all people have the power to make their own life choices and to speak for themselves,
all people have access to a range of supports which respect their autonomy and dignity,
all people are protected from poverty and have an equal chance to live their lives to their full potential,
human crisis is seen in its social context; it is not medically labelled or feared, but is embraced as an opportunity for individual and community growth,
the knowledge of people who have experienced extreme crisis is valued, cultivated and informs systems of support,
the above conditions are equally true everywhere in Europe
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