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Follow Wayne Cho – World Runner for Mental Health http://www.loveworldrun.com/blog Hello World Run Lovers:) Hope you are enjoying the holiday season. Just wanted to give you a little update before the world run kick-off on New Year’s Day. World Run … Continue reading →

Thank you to our member Ieva Leimane-Veldmeijere – Director of Zelda – The Resource Centre for People with Mental Disability ZELDA, Latvia. See the English version below of their submission to the Legal Affairs Committee regarding amendments to the legal … Continue reading →

see also :  www.facebook.com/WorldHealthOrganization Dear Colleague To mark Human Rights Day, 10 December 2011, we are launching the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Project – Act, Unite and Empower for Better Mental Health.  This project aims to tackle the widespread violations … Continue reading →

See the post by our member for the Disability and Human Rights blog www.disabilityandhumanrights.com Action for Mental Illness India – a mental health advocacy initiative and its efforts to improve the living condition of persons living with mental illness and … Continue reading →

December 3rd, International Day of Persons with Disabilities Together for a better world: Including persons with disabilities in development http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1561 At Mental Health Worldwide we are encouraging and supporting countries to ratify and implement the UN Convention for the Rights … Continue reading →

We welcome a new member to Mental Health Worldwide from Sudan. Our latest member is also a graduate from the International Diploma Program in Mental Health Law and Human Rights, as well as a legal advisor and lecturer in Constitutional Law and Human … Continue reading →

So we have the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) that obliges governments to ensure persons with psychosocial disabilities participate in all activities and decisions that impact them.  Now we need to discuss how we ensure … Continue reading →

Thank you!! To Charles O’Mahony, Dr. Mary Keys and CDLP group for this submission. This submission is to the Dept of Health in Ireland for Review of the Mental Health Act 2001. However this will be a very useful resource for … Continue reading →

Proposed Merged of Irish Human Rights Commission and Equality Authority. Submission Centre for Disability Law & Policy, NUI Galway. www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp  1. Introduction. The Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland (Galway) is thankful for the … Continue reading →

Robin’s photos are vivid, stark and disturbing. Unfortunately they depict scenes of the fate and vulnerability of persons with mental health conditions in some parts of the world that we have seen too often. We hope with every photo, every … Continue reading →