#WhatWENeed The Department of Disability Studies at the University of Kelaniya, along with The Spectrum, hosted “A Conversation on Mental Health and Wellbeing” on 23rd October as part of the 2019 #WhatWENeed campaign. 63 people participated in this event which was aimed at university students and staff. The Spectrum is a peer driven organization in […]
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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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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
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
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
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has resulted in a \”mental health momentum\” being created among different sectors including the medical sector. Persons with psychosocial disabilities, users and survivors of psychiatry, persons with \”mad\” identities and various other identities thereof met over several convenings which are broadly called the
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.
Dr. Dainius Pūras is a Professor and the Head of the Centre for Child Psychiatry Social Paediatrics at Vilnius University, teaching at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of International relations and Political Science and Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is visiting Professor at the University of Essex (United Kingdom), a Distinguished Visitor
Taiwan Mad Alliance Taiwan Mad Alliance consists of four core members who are also survivors of the mental health system in Taiwan. They identify with the label ‘mad’ and named the group Taiwan Mad Alliance accordingly, in October 2019. This is the first post from a series of posts that the Taiwan Mad Alliance has
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Inclusion Within Development A call from TCI Asia Pacific Transforming Communities for Inclusion of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities – Asia Pacific (TCI Asia Pacific) is a regional Organization of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities, with partner members in 21 countries in South Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. TCI Asia Pacific is a movement on
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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
On the 29th of August, 2018, the 5th “Classic Edition” Plenary of the TCI Asia Pacific was held in Bali, Indonesia. At the Plenary, persons with psychosocial disabilities and their cross disability supporters from 21 countries of the Asia Pacific region came together to adopt the Bali Declaration. The Bali Declaration is an amalgamation of the core
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