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ENUSP representative, Stephanie Wooley, attended EESC Civil Society Hearing, held on September 14 in Brussels and made a presentation. Despite of the limited time of 3 minutes she managed to deliver our main messages and called on the EU to address more difficult issues than...

ENUSP's Shadow Report on the EU was submitted to the UN CRPD Committee in July 2015. In this report, ENUSP stressed the role the EU must play for all persons with psychosocial disabilities in the EU. Our Shadow Report provided further information to the UN CRPD Committee with the aim to have our...

On 4 March 2015, ENUSP sent a submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) to inform the members of this Committee about key issues impacting the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities within the European Union. The submission...

The 7th ENUSP Congress was held in Hilleröd, Denmark. 58 participants from 19 European countries participated in the Congress. The delegates adopted the agenda of the General Assembly and approved the former report of the General Assembly in Thessaloniki, 2010. Gabriela Tanasan presented annual reports...

Peter Lehmann / Reinhard Wojke: Video- Photo and text documentation of "Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry", congress run by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) in Dresden, Germany, June 6-8  2007 Agreement on the involvement of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry (in English) from April 21, 2006...

ENUSP / World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry / MindFreedom International / Federal Organisation of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in Germany (BPE) on June 7, 2007: Declaration of Dresden Against Coerced Psychiatric Treatment

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...

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...

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...