Inclusion

Reflections of the Inclusion Advisory Group on supporting participation of marginalized groups of people with disabilities in technical advisory partnerships with governments and international cooperation stakeholders

Participation of people with disabilities is central to the monitoring and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Inclusion Advisory Group (IAG) shares their reflections and approach to supporting participation of marginalized groups of people with disabilities in technical advisory partnerships with governments and international cooperation stakeholders. Aleisha Carroll Aleisha […]

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The Wish Tree: Bearing witness to vision of inclusive psycho-social development – Sugandh Dixit

    On 12 October 2020, World Mental Health Day, the WHO encapsulated decades of crises in mental health services that the pandemic has now brought to the forefront. It called for greater investment in, and prioritization of these services, and quality access of mental health for all. For Bapu Trust for Research on Mind

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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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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 V

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

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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 IV

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

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Turning the tables: The imperative to reframe the debate towards full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with psycho-social disabilities. Excerpt from “Galway-Trieste” conversations – Part III

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

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Turning the tables: The imperative to reframe the debate towards full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with psycho-social disabilities Excerpt from “Galway-Trieste” conversations – Part II

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

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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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