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 ...

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 ...