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 ...

An investigation on attitudes towards the use of coercion and mechanical restraint says it is possible to change the staff attitudes towards the use of coercion, e.g. mechanical restraint, through activating, diverse, and involving teaching. The staff in the research (122 staff members in total) ...

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 ...

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 ...