Submissions 2025

For #WhatWENeed 2025, Monirul Islam, Human Rights Defender and Founder of the MindfulRights Project, reflects on the struggles of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities, who routinely face exclusion, violence, and discrimination. Society often ignores their pain, and systems meant to uphold their rights frequently fail. Monirul highlights that most survivors have no pathway to justice, […]

For #WhatWENeed 2025, Psychiatric Survivors Association (PSA) Fiji shares an in-depth reflection on how persons with psychosocial disabilities were enabled to take part meaningfully and contribute to Fij’s review of Mental Health Act. Their blog reflects on the Mental Health Act Review in Fiji and highlights a long-standing gap: persons with psychosocial disabilities have often

How are we reclaiming our rights? How are we redefining support? How are we ensuring that care never means control? For #WhatWeNeed 2025, Tina Minkowitz reflects on what a true human rights–based care and support agenda should look like. She challenges systems that still allow involuntary treatment and institutionalization, insisting that autonomy and legal capacity

How are we resisting harm? How are we rising from our struggles? How are we building our communities? How are we reimagining possibilities? For #WhatWENeed 2025, Elizabeth Ombati reflects on these questions. Through her words, she writes about the everyday acts of courage and care that shape our movement, from resisting violence and segregation to