Living Association – Thailand
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#WhatWENeed is Unconditional Love – Bhor Foundation
As part of the campaign, Bhor Foundation organised a walk for inclusion and neurodiversity on the 19th of October 2019. The community walk with around 30 people celebrated neurodiversity and advocated for an inclusive community across gender, class and neurodiverse sterotypes, taking care of themselves through interaction, art and holistic yoga. \”Bhor Foundation” works in
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New Report Compiles Global Evidence Base for Alternatives to Coercion by Piers Gooding
Author: Piers Gooding A new report brings together evidence from around the world on preventing, reducing and ending coercion in mental health settings. The report, authored by Bernadette McSherry, Cath Roper, Flick Grey and myself, was commissioned by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the work of the Special Rapporteur on
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#WhatWENeed Pakistan – Mainstreaming Disability to Create Inclusion
STEP (Special Talent Exchange Program) was conceived and initiated in Pakistan by persons with disabilities themselves in 1997. As a cross disability organization, STEP is committed to mainstreaming disability in development through empowering individuals and organizations of persons with disabilities as well as sensitizing society about rights based approach. (See their strategic goals.) Some of
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#WhatWENeed is an Inclusive Approach to Mental Health
Author: Kavita Nair Bapu Trust For Research on Mind & Discourse, Pune Punitive? Biomedical? Recovery Based? Development Based? What is the most appropriate System For Mental Health – ‘Care/Treatment/Support’ Is it a system which criminalises mental health- where people with mental health issues are put into custodial institutions, have to go through court processes, are
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Getting better without drugs? Listen to Dr. Bruce Lipton on the connection between the pharmaceutical industry, epigenetics and healing.
\”… it took about 20 years before science owned what I was talking about. If you understand epigenetics you don\’t need the pharmaceutical industry; That\’s not in the interests of one of the biggest industries in this planet; to say \”you can heal yourself without drugs\”
#WhatWENeed Myanmar
#WhatWENeed in MyanmarFull CRPD Compliance on the inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities Myanmar obtained Independence from Britain in 1948. Even though a former British colony, Myanmar has chosen not to be a part of the Commonwealth nations. There are strong feelings about having been colonized, that foreign rule has isolated the country for 50
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