CRPD

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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Disability as an Intersectional Human Rights Movement – An Interview with Janice Cambri from the Philippines

TCI Asia Pacific recently interviewed Janice Cambri from the Philippines. A survivor of psychiatry, her personal history is what propelled her to become a disability rights activist. She founded the first advocate group for persons with psychosocial disabilities in the Philippines after being introduced to the CRPD and TCI Asia Pacific in 2014. She works with a

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From the Mental Health Movement to the Disability Movement – In Conversation with Yeni Rosa Damayanti

LRecently, TCI Asia Pacific spoke with Yeni Rosa Damayanti, Chairperson of the Indonesian Mental Health Association, about her experience with international, regional and national advocacy in human rights for persons with disabilities, the ideologies she aligns herself with and where she sees and hopes to see persons with psychosocial disabilities in the future.  Yeni has

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#WhatWENeed Taiwan

#WhatWENeed in Taiwan 1. De-colonization of the mental health sector Taiwan was the first independent, Asian, democratic republic. However, it has had a complex history of colonialism, invasions and occupations by different nationalities (Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, etc.). \”Taiwan\’s culture and cultural legacy has been largely shaped by the processes of imperialism and colonization as the structural and psychological

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