The Citizens Commission on Human Rights advocates for the adoption of international standards in the U.S. that call...
CCHR Protests Coercive Psychiatric Practices, Calls for Human Rights-Based Mental Health Treatment Based on Consent
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CCHR Promotes Human Rights During Mental Health Awareness Month
Citizens Commission on Human Rights advocates the global adoption of international human rights standards that call...
Maryland Governor Signs CCHR-Supported Legislation to Protect Troubled Youth from Abusive Transport to For-Profit Residential Behavioral Treatment Programs
Maryland legislators took action after receiving reports of abuse during the largely unregulated transport of young...
CCHR’s New Year’s Resolution: End the Fraud and Abuse of Involuntary Psychiatric Detentions
Research indicates psychiatric confinements against a person’s will have been increasing at three times the rate of...
As International Human Rights Day Approaches, CCHR Urges Adoption of the Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights
International human rights standards call for human rights-based approaches in the field of mental health. Citizens...
CCHR Calls for Repeal of Laws Allowing Forced Psychiatric Detention Amid Evidence of Abusive and Racist Use
New study finds requests made under Massachusetts law to transport people against their will for psychiatric...
CCHR Protests Electric Shocking of Autistic Students
A protest by Citizens Commission on Human Rights and disability rights organizations calls public attention to an...
Exhibit Exposes Psychiatric Human Rights Abuses at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Conference
Citizens Commission on Human Rights’ exhibit exposes the history to the present day of harmful and racist practices in...
Investigation Exposes Psychiatric Facilities that Wrongly Held Patients Against Their Will
Involuntary commitments to psychiatric facilities have increased over the last decade. Evidence indicates many...