October 2019

Turning the tables: The imperative to reframe the debate towards full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with psycho-social disabilities Excerpts from “Galway-Trieste” conversations – Part IV

The expected CRPD compliance and transition from medical to social paradigm requires a new range of partnerships and new ways of formulating questions on inclusion. For example, as TCI shared in Galway in 2017, \’consent\’ is too restrictive, putting the onus on the person with psychosocial disability to choose between bad options – medication or […]

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Turning the tables: The imperative to reframe the debate towards full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with psycho-social disabilities. Excerpt from “Galway-Trieste” conversations – Part III

Actors and actor networks with influence, as discussed in Part II, have pulled the debate on inclusion more towards \”progressive mental health\” rather than towards \”full CRPD compliance\”. There is a divide in the advocacy from Global North and the ones coming from the Global South as contexts have been historically and politically different. \”Zero

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Turning the tables: The imperative to reframe the debate towards full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with psycho-social disabilities Excerpt from “Galway-Trieste” conversations – Part II

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has resulted in a \”mental health momentum\” being created among different sectors including the medical sector. Persons with psychosocial disabilities, users and survivors of psychiatry, persons with \”mad\” identities and various other identities thereof met over several convenings which are broadly called the

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Turning the tables: The imperative to reframe the debate towards full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with psycho-social disabilities.  Excerpts from “Galway-Trieste” conversations – Part I

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted in 2006, represented a paradigm shift in relation to the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities. The focus was no longer the right to health, but achieving full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities.

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Welcoming the #WhatWENeed campaign with an Open Statement by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

Dr. Dainius Pūras is a Professor and the Head of the Centre for Child Psychiatry Social Paediatrics at Vilnius University, teaching at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of International relations and Political Science and Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University, Lithuania.  He is visiting Professor at  the University of Essex  (United Kingdom), a Distinguished Visitor

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Taiwan Mad Alliance

Taiwan Mad Alliance Taiwan Mad Alliance consists of four core members who are also survivors of the mental health system in Taiwan. They identify with the label ‘mad’ and named the group Taiwan Mad Alliance accordingly, in October 2019. This is the first post from a series of posts that the Taiwan Mad Alliance has

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#WhatWENeed Campaign (2019)

Inclusion Within Development A call from TCI Asia Pacific Transforming Communities for Inclusion of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities – Asia Pacific (TCI Asia Pacific) is a regional Organization of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities, with partner members in 21 countries in South Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. TCI Asia Pacific is a movement on

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