Gellinudd Recovery Centre-the UK’s first inpatient mental health centre to be designed by service users and their carers opened in Wales in April 2017. Unfortunately the service cannot be copied elsewhere easily due to lack of funding for evaluation. It's interesting, how money is always...
Despite of the negative feedback received from INGOs the Bioethics Committee decided to proceed with the Additional protocol to the Oviedo Convention, which will legitimize forced measures against people with "mental disorder". Our representative, Jolijn Santegoeds, attended the plenary meeting of the Commitee on Bioethics,...
ENUSP is making an urgent call for donations to get our voice heard At the upcoming Plenary Session of the Council of Europe Intergovernmental Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO), 7th June - Council of Europe - Strasbourg, the Draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention will...
Our ally, Mental Health Europe, is currently updating and expanding the Mapping Exclusion Report which was published in 2012. As part of this revision, a section entitled ‘Understanding Exclusion’ will give the perspective of persons with lived experience of institutionalisation, forced placement and treatment and...
On May 8, 2017 the 1st Mental Health Congress was held in Warsaw. According to the report of our individual member, Prof. Dr Tadeusz Trocikowski the Congress was attended by over 500 participants. It was organized under the auspices of the President of the Republic...
This report was written by Jolijn Santegoeds, Founder of Stitching Mind Rights and organizer of the protest. Edited by Stephanie Wooley. Protest in Utrecht on 6 May 2017 A protest march against coercion in psychiatry was held in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, on...
OHCHR announced several calls for input, among them 3 calls that we find the most important for organizations, working on the rights of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry. They are as follows: Report of the Special Rapporteur on rights of persons with disabilities - "Right...
DRPI launched online free trainings with the aim to raise capacity of people with disabilities around the world to monitor and report violations of their rights. There are 7 training modules in total, each of them addressing a different theme. You will find checklist forms,...
ENUSP is deeply saddened by the death of Mr. Rusi Stanev. He experienced years of torture and humiliation in a mental health institution in Bulgaria, was deprived of legal capacity and yet stayed an active fighter for human rights and a speaker for those whose...
Today, on October 10, the World Mental Health Day, ENUSP would like to remind all relevant stakeholders and society at large that in many EU countries practices of substitute decision making, forced treatment, and forced institutionalization of persons with disabilities, including people with mental diagnoses...
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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