Campaign

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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The Stronger Project Kenya (A Youth Led Community Based Organisation for Persons With Psychosocial Disabilities)

WHAT WE NEED SUBMISSION By: The Stronger Project Kenya (A Youth Led Community Based Organisation for Persons With Psychosocial Disabilities) Living independently and being included in the community is a fundamental human right concept that is applied to the context of disability. Persons with psychosocial disabilities are not exempt from this. For years, persons with

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#WhatWENeed submission by Psychosocial Disability Rights Network (PDRN), Pakistan

It is a struggle and a challenge in Pakistan to even admit to having a mental health condition, it is even more difficult for people to accept it as a disability. Psychosocial disability arises when someone with a mental health condition interacts with a social environment and face barriers while interacting in the society 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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Hong Kong & China

China Association of Persons with Psychiatric Disability and their Relatives (CAPPD) Shenzhen Branch Annual meeting. Members join the #WhatWeNeed Campaign On their hands – We need the right to work At their back – Equity and Inclusion; Love no Barriers Hippo, He Ma, a User, and Survivor of Psychiatric, Peer Support Worker On the post

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#WhatWENeed Campaign 2020

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 22 countries in South Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. Internationally and regionally, TCI works towards capacity building and policy development towards realizing  full compliance with

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Welcoming the #WhatWENeed campaign with an Open Statement by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

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

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