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Transforming Communities for Inclusion: Examples of practice
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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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A Response Statement by the Bapu Trust For Research On Mind And Discourse on UN Special Rapporteur Report (A/HRC/44/48) – Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health

The dissemination of the Special Rapporteur Dr. Danius Puras\’ report has been a moment of joy and appreciation for the Seher: Comprehensive Urban Community Mental Health and Inclusion Program team. As a community mental health program working towards an outcome of full inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities, it was a moment of great validation,

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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 V

Finally, the identities of constituencies represented in these conversations have been diverse, including persons with psychosocial disabilities, users and survivors of psychiatry, ex-users of psychiatry, persons with \”mad\” identities, people who hear voices, etc. Is it one movement or many movements? Is there a cultural divide in advocacy and voices of representation? It is clear

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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 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.  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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Press Release – Oppose Protocol for Detention, Forced Treatment; Provide Alternatives #WithdrawOviedo

(Brussels) – Council of Europe member states should oppose new proposed standards regulating the detention and forced treatment of people with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today. The body in charge of developing the standards, the Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO), consisting of experts from each member state, is to meet on November 21, 2018

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#WhatWENeed Tonga

#WhatWENeed in Tonga Colonialism and Tonga Tonga was never colonized by any country. It did not have a mental health law until 1992. However, it had \’friendship\’ status for 70 years with Britain. It was a British \’protectorate\’ from 1900 until 1970, when it attained full Independence. It always retained its political sovereignty; However, many

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Mental Health Europe Responds to the Lancet Commission Report

Mental Health Europe recently published a response to the Lancet Commission Report released on World Mental Health Day 2018.  \”…the report’s key recommendations still come from a biomedical starting point, and therefore fail to recognise fully both the psychosocial model of mental health and community services. Change would involve tackling the power of the national and global institutions

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