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
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
Author: Shivani Gupta Cross-disability perspective to the WhatWeNeed campaign by Shivani Gupta I am a person with a disability working as a cross-disability advocate and am also pursuing a PhD around support structures available to persons with high support needs living in rural communities in India. With very limited knowledge of psychosocial disabilities, I was
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#WhatWENeed is Full CRPD Compliance Read PPDFRC\’s Submission on the Amendments to the Penal Code Singapore ratified the CRPD in 2013. Currently, Singapore in the process of amending their Penal Code. Are the new amendments CRPD compliant? Will these amendments ensure that ALL persons with disabilities receive the rights they are entitled to? People with
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With the approach of the World Mental Health Week 2018, Consumer Action Network Mental Health Lanka – CAN MH Lanka commenced its World Mental Health Day campaign on 10th October 2018 at Sri Lanka Parliament. Honorable Prime Minister Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe was accoutred with the \’symbol of mind\’launching the campaign. The \’Bali Declaration 2018 – Transforming Communities
STEP (Special Talent Exchange Program) was conceived and initiated in Pakistan by persons with disabilities themselves in 1997. As a cross disability organization, STEP is committed to mainstreaming disability in development through empowering individuals and organizations of persons with disabilities as well as sensitizing society about rights based approach. (See their strategic goals.) Some of
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Dated: 09-10-2018 Open Letter to the Organizers and Partners to the process of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018, London,9th and 10th October, 2018. Expressing dissent over the process adopted and the expected outcome of the forthcoming Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit TCI Asia Pacific is a regional DPO of persons with psychosocial disabilities, and
The National Survivor User Network (NSUN), England has released an open letter to the Organisers, Partners and Delegates of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, London – 9th and 10th October 2018. The letter has been signed by around 150 mental health campaigners and organisations from 25 countries, including TCI Asia Pacific, Mad in Asia and many
Author: Tina Minkowitz Founder/PresidentCentre for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry When we go to a doctor’s office we may feel nervous, apprehensive. We worry about test results, we worry about whether a treatment might do more harm than good. We put our trust in the practitioner provisionally and hope she is trustworthy and
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Author: Dr. Philip Thomas. The #WhatWeNeed campaign coordinated by Transforming Communities for Inclusion (Asia Pacific – TCI-AP) coincides with the Global Mental Health Ministerial Summit being held in London this week – World Mental Health Week. TCI-AP and other groups and organizations are rightly concerned that this summit, organized secretively and without any input from
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