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Mental Health Europe Responds to the Lancet Commission Report

Mental Health Europe recently published a response to the Lancet Commission Report released on World Mental Health Day 2018.  \”…the report’s key recommendations still come from a biomedical starting point, and therefore fail to recognise fully both the psychosocial model of mental health and community services. Change would involve tackling the power of the national and global institutions […]

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Response to the Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development by Akriti Mehta

Author: Akriti Mehta More than ten years after the publication of a series of articles published in the Lancet[1]that heralded in the age of global mental health, a report of The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development[2] was released at the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit[3] in London. It seeks to reframe mental health

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Special Rapporteur Catalina Devandas response to the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In her response to the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health that was released yesterday, Ms Devandas puts forward very clear message, that the report “fails to understand the potential of the CRPD to reframe, transform and enhance the global response to mental health in light of the rights of persons with disabilities.\” She highlights the Commission

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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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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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Global Mental Health or Smoke and Mirrors

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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Join the #WhatWENeed Campaign

#WhatWENeed is full CRPD Compliance on the inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities. Partners for reframing from Mental Health to Inclusion this International Mental Health Week, 2018[1] Persons with psychosocial disabilities, users and survivors of psychiatry, people with \”mad\” identities and other identities thereof are herewith calling for support to have our voices amplified through

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