by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 7, 2024
Citizens Commission on Human Rights marches in protest, opens human rights exhibit, delivers open letter to American Psychiatric Association leadership demanding it adopt international human rights standards to end coercive psychiatric practices. Citizens Commission...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 7, 2024
“Coercive practices violate a person’s right to liberty and security, which is a fundamental human right.” Click here to read more.
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 5, 2024
Notable New York City activists speak at opening of Citizens Commission on Human Rights’ exhibit exposing sordid history of harmful psychiatric practices still in use today. The exhibit runs at Union Square in New York City through May 9. Citizens Commission on Human...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 4, 2024
Citizens Commission on Human Rights calls on APA to end the use of lucrative but dangerous coercive treatment and electroshock. CCHR’s exhibit in New York City through May 9 exposes grievous harm that psychiatric practices have caused patients. Scores of protesters...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 1, 2024
How antipsychotic drugs are used is challenged by research reporting on the negative effect on patients’ sense of self and on the possibility of worse social functioning and quality of life from long-term use for some patients. Citizens Commission on Human Rights...
