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Campaign 2024

#WhatWENeed Campaign 2024 TCI launched its annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed, as a response to the Lancet Commission on Mental Health (2018). This report reinforced the stereotypes perpetuated against persons with psychosocial disabilities and put the cause of our exclusion on the ‘lack of treatment of mental disorders’. A concerning trope in these documents, carried forward […]

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Submission by Rights for Disability Development Foundation

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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Campaign 2023

#WhatWENeed Campaign 2023 TCI launched its annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed, as a response to the Lancet Commission on Mental Health (2018). This report reinforced the stereotypes perpetuated against persons with psychosocial disabilities and put the cause of our exclusion on the ‘lack of treatment of mental disorders’. A concerning trope in these documents, carried forward

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Liberation’s work

Liberation is a quite recently formed organisation, led by people with psychosocial disabilities. We operate at a grass roots level. Our aim is to promote full human rights for people with lived experience of mental distress/trauma. This is the term we often use in England for people with psychosocial disabilities.

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Events

2023 Observance of World Mental Health Day Read More 2022 A Workshop on Community Inclusion, Sri Lanka Read More Launch of CIC-K Position Paper in a Stakeholder Meeting Read More IRIS Award 2022 Read More Mad people’s movement: Reclaiming Collective Activist Histories Webinar Read More

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TCI Response & Statement (WITHDRAW the Proposed WHO & OHCHR Guidance on MH, Human Rights and Legislation)

We, in TCI, a global OPD of persons with psychosocial disabilities, warmly welcomes the adoption of the Guidelines on De-Institutionalization [DI] including during emergencies by the CRPD committee at the 27th Session. We express gratitude to the Working Group (WG) on DI, the CRPD Committee and their Secretariat team for the tireless work and guidance

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Campaign 2022

#WhatWENeed Campaign 2022 A Campaign Call from TCI To gain further insight into the activities and impact of TCI’s annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed 2022, please click here to access the comprehensive report. Download Since 2018, when the Lancet Commission on Mental Health was issued, TCI has worked to challenge and correct the medical oppression on

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From amelioration to transformation: Hopes for mental health in human rights based systems – Sudarshan R Kottai

During my final year M. Phil Clinical Psychology course in 2013, a professor of Psychiatric Social Work who saw the title of my thesis with the phrase, ‘psychotic patients’ suggested changing it to ‘persons suffering from psychosis’ in line with UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). That was my first ever encounter

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Videos 2024

2024 Submission from NCS-CAF-Sri Lanka Our Right, Our Life! Include us & consult us in ACTIONS! Are persons with psychosocial disabilities truly included in society?Do we have the choice to make our own decisions?Is meaningful participation a reality, and are our needs reasonably accommodated? This video submission by NCS-CAF Sri Lanka explores these critical questions.

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Transforming lives: Deinstitutionalization for people with disabilities

Bhargavi Davar & Aleisha Carroll 2024 This ‘Disability Equity and Rights: Challenges, opportunities, and ways forward for inclusive development’ publication was prepared under the DFAT – CBM Inclusion Advisory Group Disability Inclusion Technical Partnership, an Australian aid initiative implemented by CBM Inclusion Advisory Group and the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of

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