Escaping the Shackles Cathy Wield Living Library ProjectMary Nettle Speak Out Against Psychiatry Manifesto WWN- Liberation Submission Dorothy Gould DNS International CRPD FIR GBR Liberation Presentation for CRPD Committee – 28th August 2023 Oral Presentation Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law in the UK
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Introduction: A person experiencing mental distress is considered a burden to the family. On the other hand, unawareness and stigma makes many families hide their member consumers, preventing them from taking support or psychosocial assistance. In 2009, Nidahas Chinthana Sansadaya – NCS, (Consumer Action Forum), with the technical and financial assistance and expertise from Laymen’s
Women and girls with psychosocial disability are denied their rights of sexual and reproductive in different ways; Women and girls with psychosocial disability are forced to engage in sexual activities without their will. For example, unfaithful men force women and girls with psychosocial disabilities when they are in a severe situation. As they are in
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Deinstitutionalization Content of Law on De-institutionalization: In today’s world persons with psychosocial disabilities have the right to enjoy life while accessing services like other human beings in society, in line with the SDGs and the UNCRPD, both of which tools base their approaches on the human rights-based method which emphasizes the social model as opposed
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WHAT WE NEED Inclusive social protection: We need policies and programmes that are designed to understand the ways persons with psychosocial and invisible disability’s function and participate in their communities Community support: Persons with psychosocial disabilities require support to be integrated into their communities to enable them to participate in activities meanifully and to have
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I recently had a great opportunity courtesy of TCI Global to accompany a team made up of leaders within the movement of persons with psychosocial disabilities on an exploratory mission in Tanzania and Rwanda. The leaders included us from Kenya, colleagues from Uganda, Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Nepal. It was a great moment meeting peers
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A ‘Grassroot Conclave’ was organized by one of TCI’s founding members, Bapu Trust for Research on Mind & Discourse from April 6-8, 2023 in Pune, India. It was a gathering of the grassroot cadres of their partner organizations who had been trained to ‘program for inclusion’ and had been practicing inclusion in their communities. The
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Presented at: Joint Expert Group Meeting on Older Persons and Intergenerational Solidarity organized by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on October 10-11, 2023 at United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. TCI was represented at the event by Mr.
Addis Declaration Persons with psychosocial disabilities and organizations from 5 countries in East Africa region met in Addis Ababa on July 26, 2022 at the East Africa Subregional Convening, organized by Transforming Communities for Inclusion – Global in partnership with CIC-Kenya, TRIUMPH, RDDF and UNSAI, and developed the “Addis Declaration”, through a consultative process, over
Winfred Wanja Kirumia advocates for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities especially young women and girls with disabilities. She trains persons with disabilities to fight for their rights and inclusion, creating awareness of how to address their challenges and how to embrace development activities and deliver themselves from the yokes of poverty including
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