#WhatWENeed – Inclusive Approach to Mental Health

Blog contributed by: 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’ A system which Criminalises Mental Health- where people with mental health issues are put into Custodial Institutions, have to go through Court Processes, are put into

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

Catalina Devandas  Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesIn 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

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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

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

Blog contributed by: Bhargavi Davar, PhD  Convenor TCI Asia PacificPublished on Mad in America Read how Bhargavi 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 says

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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

Blog contributed by: 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

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