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    "NIMH commits to supporting global mental health" click here for more

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    Mental illness in Australian immigration detention centres click here for more

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    Gurus of Mental Health click here for more

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    Grand Challenge on Global Mental Health announced! find out more

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    PLoS Medicine launched a new series of Reviews Click here for more

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    The Lancet announces a new series on Global Mental Health in partnership with the Movement - have your say!

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    Mental health : a global challenge
    The first Global Mental Health Summit took place in the greek capital, Athens. Click here for the link.

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    Disability Rights Fund Releases Second 2009 Request for Proposals, Extending Another Year of Grantmaking to Existing Target Countries and Opening Grantmaking to the Pacific Click here for details

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    "On World Human Rights Day (December 10th), the Lancet has published an article describing health systems and the right to health in 194 countries click here to read the articlehttp:// www.facebook.com/ group.php? gid= 44154737699

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    A key finding of the report is that people with mental illnesses are frequently neglected and discriminated against. Of 98 countries for which data were available, almost half allocated 2% or less of their national budget to mental health."

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    A new Facebook Group for the Movement is now set up; you can join up at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44154737699

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    You can submit information and news by clicking here news@globalmentalhealth.org

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On this page, we report stories about the human rights of people living with mental disorders throughout the world, submitted to this site by members.
   
  

 
•  Indonesia: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS: Human rights of persons with mental illness in Indonesia: more than legislation is needed click here to read
  

 
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Nepal: Stories of Hope and Survival of people living with mental disorders in Nepal published in VOW(Voice of Women) a monthly english Magazine. When the mind slips.... Click here to read more
   
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18 May 2009. The Egyptian Parliament adopted in late April 2009 a new law entitled the "Law for the Care of Mental Patients". Mental health law reform is particularly timely in Egypt given the country's ratification in April 2008 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which includes rights provisions for persons with mental health disabilities. Click here to read more
   
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18 May 2009. The Egyptian Parliament adopted in late April 2009 a new law entitled the "Law for the Care of Mental Patients". Mental health law reform is particularly timely in Egypt given the country's ratification in April 2008 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which includes rights provisions for persons with mental health disabilities. Click here to read more
   
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A very important legal case centering on discrimination on mental health grounds. The High Court has ruled the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) were wrong to drop a prosecution where the victim had a history of mental illness. The CPS believed the individual, granted anonymity and known as "FB", would not be a credible witness. Click here to read more
   
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Patients or Prisoners: a TV news report from a south Indian mental hospital. Click here to view the video
   
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National Human Rights Commission report on mental hospitals in India. Click here for the report
   
•    Iswar Sankalpa, a non-profit organisation, arranged a medical awareness camp at Chetla Agrani Club under the patronage of Borough-IX chairman Bobby Hakim. Click here to read more.
   
   
•    The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: Looking Back and Moving Forward International Symposium: a report which includes human rights of persons with mental disabiliities. Click here for the report.
   
•      Protect the Human Rights - "Everybody 2". Click here to view the video. 
   
• Protect the Human Rights - "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Click here to view the video.
   
•     Protect the Human Rights - "Tim Minchin - Taboo - Secret Policeman's Ball '08". Click here to view the video.
   
•    Psychiatric patient left to die in a hospital emergency room in the USA: go to shocking video shows brooklyn hospital.
   
   
•    Criminal charges dropped against last two indicted in 2006 death of inmate in prison mental health unit in USA. click here to visit the link.
   
   
   

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