by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 28, 2021
Excerpt from the CCHR Colorado article: “American Psychiatric Association Apology Fails to Fully Admit Psychiatry’s Racial Human Rights Abuses and Role in Creating Racism” The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 30, 2020
Excerpted from Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado article, “Psychiatric Industry Aims to Profit from Racism, Targets African Americans” Rev. Fred Shaw, Jr., founder of Task Force Against Psychiatric Racism and Modern Day Eugenics In response to the...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 30, 2020
Excerpted from the website of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado, www.CCHRColorado.org. While many Americans see the recent racial tension in this country as an opportunity to address the issue of racial injustice, the psychiatric-pharmaceutical...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Nov 5, 2020
Many believe electroshock was banned long ago, but the controversial treatment is still done today despite the dangers. As healthcare systems around the country have been stretched to the limit, first by the opioid crisis and now COVID-19, many hospital treatments are...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 4, 2019
After new allegations of abuses at Saint Elizabeths Hospital surface, citizens air concerns about violations of children’s rights in the mental health system. In observance of the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Citizens...
