Inclusion

#WhatWENeed Pakistan – Mainstreaming Disability to Create Inclusion

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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#WhatWENeed Hong Kong

We Need Full CRPD Compliance in Law and Policy Reforms Author: Disabilities CV Disabilities CV is a new disability rights initiative in Hong Kong committed to promoting self-advocacy among people with psycho-social disabilities, reforming mental health law and policy, and supporting a rights-based approach to public policy development, social inclusion and anti-discrimination. They are currently working

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#WhatWENeed is an Inclusive Approach to Mental Health

Author: Kavita Nair Bapu Trust For Research on Mind & Discourse, Pune Punitive? Biomedical? Recovery Based? Development Based? What is the most appropriate System For Mental Health – ‘Care/Treatment/Support’ Is it a system which criminalises mental health- where people with mental health issues are put into custodial institutions, have to go through court processes, are

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TCI Asia Pacific Open Letter to the Organizers and Partners of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018

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

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TCI ASIA Pacific: Engaging the Global Mental Health Movement in Dialogue

Author: Bhargavi Davar, PhD  Convenor TCI Asia PacificPublished on Mad in America Bhargavi Davar elaborates on the assertion of full human rights for persons with psychosocial disabilities by bringing a \”CRPD-inspired discourse to counter the globalizing of psychiatry, which has involved the Global North exporting its medical model to the Global South.\” She talks about \”the

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NSUN Open Letter to the Organisers, Partners and Delegates of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, London 9th and 10th October, 2018

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

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