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WHAT IS THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (CCHR)?
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a nonprofit mental health watchdog responsible worldwide for helping to enact more than 180 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic inalienable human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful. Cofounded in 1969 by the late Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, CCHR has had an Irish chapter headquartered in Dublin since 2015.
"Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse."
– Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry (1920-2012)
WANTED: WHISTLEBLOWERS
Help Us Handle Human Rights Violations
To date (2023), serious human rights violations occur within the field of mental health, particularly in psychiatric institutions. In Chapter 12 of The Cambridge Handbook on Psychology and Human Rights (2019), experts expressed grave concerns about human rights in psychiatry. They wrote: “Some of the worst violations of human rights happen within psychiatric institutions, including inhumane treatments, prolonged and painful use of restraints, at times with rusting metal shackles, use of caged beds, filthy living conditions and lack of clothes, clean water, food, heating, and social/cognitive stimulation. Not only are people kept in seclusion for lengthy periods, but they are often detained in large institutions, isolated from society and far from families and loved ones.”
CCHR is committed to putting a stop to such human rights violations. However, in order to do so, we need your help. If you have witnessed abuses or human rights violations, please step forward and speak out. Whistleblowing or making a ‘protected disclosure’ is the action of reporting potential wrongdoing. From experience, in the case of psychiatry, this could be a variety of things such as neglect, rape, violence, theft, (insurance) fraud, torture and even murder.
The term ‘protected disclosure’ is used as any whistleblower is protected by European and Irish Law.
Whistleblower’s Report Form
CCHR will help you to restore human rights and to bring criminal psychiatrists to justice. Click on the button below to go to our Whistleblower’s Report Form.
OUR CAMPAIGNS
ELECTROSHOCK & BRAIN DAMAGE
The loss of memory and intellectual abilities that require memory to function properly are often devastating to the person treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). There is nothing therapeutic about inducing Grand Mal seizures with 150 volts of electricity, and often against the person’s wishes.
PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS
While medical drugs commonly treat, prevent or cure disease or improve health, psychiatric drugs only suppress symptoms – symptoms that return once the drug wears off. Like illicit drugs, they provide no more than a temporary escape from life’s problems.
INVESTIGATING PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE
Anyone whose mother, wife, sister or father, brother, son, child or friend has been killed or damaged by psychiatric “treatment”, find out how to report psychiatric abuse. This is your chance to tell your story. All information is treated in the strictest confidence.
Quick Facts About Psychiatry
While posing as “authorities” on the mind and mental health, psychiatry has no scientific basis for any of its treatments or methods. Presented herein is specific evidence debunking several of the main claims and methods of this pseudo-science. Read the facts and judge for yourself.
Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights
All human rights organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities. The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights articulates the guiding principles of CCHR and the standards against which human rights violations by psychiatry are relentlessly investigated and exposed.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a binding human rights treaty of the UN ratified by Ireland in 2018. The implementation of its inherent human rights perspective will change the field of mental health and psychiatry for good.
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Report Abuse
Do you want to report any psychiatric abuses and/or human rights violations? You can do so by clicking on the button below.
