Submission 2023

Submissions by TCI’s Member from Liberation (UK) and it’s members 2023

Escaping the Shackles Cathy Wield Living Library ProjectMary Nettle Speak Out Against Psychiatry Manifesto WWN- Liberation Submission Dorothy Gould DNS International CRPD FIR GBR Liberation Presentation for CRPD Committee – 28th August 2023 Oral Presentation Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law in the UK

Introduction: A person experiencing mental distress is considered a burden to the family. On the other hand, unawareness and stigma makes many families hide their member consumers, preventing them from taking support or psychosocial assistance. In 2009, Nidahas Chinthana Sansadaya – NCS, (Consumer Action Forum), with the technical and financial assistance and expertise from Laymen’s

Deinstitutionalization Content of Law on De-institutionalization: In today’s world persons with psychosocial disabilities have the right to enjoy life while  accessing services like other human beings in society, in line with the SDGs and the UNCRPD,  both of which tools base their approaches on the human rights-based method which emphasizes the social model as opposed

WHAT WE NEED Inclusive social protection: We need policies and programmes that are designed to understand the ways persons with psychosocial and invisible disability’s function and participate in their communities Community support: Persons with psychosocial disabilities require support to be integrated into their communities to enable them to participate in activities meanifully and to have

I recently had a great opportunity courtesy of TCI Global to accompany a team made up of leaders within the movement of persons with psychosocial disabilities on an exploratory mission in Tanzania and Rwanda. The leaders included us from Kenya, colleagues from Uganda, Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Nepal. It was a great moment meeting peers

Presented at: Joint Expert Group Meeting on Older Persons and Intergenerational Solidarity organized by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on October 10-11, 2023 at United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. TCI was represented at the event by Mr.

Winfred Wanja Kirumia advocates for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities especially young women and girls with disabilities. She trains persons with disabilities to fight for their rights and inclusion, creating awareness of how to address their challenges and how to embrace development activities and deliver themselves from the yokes of poverty including

Author’s bio My name is Puneet Singh Singhal (he/him) from New Delhi, India. I am a person with dyslexia, dyspraxia and stammering. I see my life as the intersection of poverty, domestic violence, and multiple non-visible disabilities. I am a disability activist advocating for a more inclusive and accessible society for people with different, distinct,