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  2. Political abuse of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    In the beginning of the 2000s, Human Rights Watch accused China of locking up Falun Gong members and dissidents in a number of Chinese mental hospitals managed by the Public Security Bureau. [22] Access to the hospitals was requested by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), but denied by China, and the controversy subsided. [22]

  3. Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness

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    The Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care (MI Principles) were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1991. They provide agreed but non-legally-binding basic standards that mental health systems should meet and rights that people diagnosed with mental disorder should have.

  4. Mental health in Russia - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, during a scientific and practical conference held by the Advocacy Chamber of the Moscow Oblast, 200 leading legal scholars and human rights defenders noted the same trend when a tool for "relatively honest" encroachment upon property more and more often became the Mental Health Law. [61]

  5. Opinion - Why America must stand with Africa’s human rights ...

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    Africa has become a battleground between democracy and authoritarianism, with autocrats gaining the upper hand, and the U.S. must support human rights defenders in the region to ensure global ...

  6. Human rights defender - Wikipedia

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    The term human rights defender (HRD) became commonly used within the international human rights community after the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (A/RES/53/144, 1998), commonly known as the Declaration on Human Rights ...

  7. Platon on 'The Defenders' and Photographing Everyday Heroes - AOL

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    Platon’s new book, The Defenders: Heroes of the Fight for Global Human Rights, is a visual commemoration of powerful figures around the world. The book, weighing in at nearly 9.5 pounds and 560 ...

  8. Citizens Commission on Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, its stated mission is to "eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections." [ 6 ] It is regarded by most non-Scientologists as a Scientology front group whose purpose is to push the organization's anti-psychiatry agenda.

  9. Nevzat Tarhan - Wikipedia

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    İDER Human Values and Mental Health Foundation, Chairman; ASDER (Human rights organization) Defenders of Justice Association, Chairman; Happy Home Happy Life Association, Chairman (Focusing on orphans and deprived children) Come Hold My Hand Association, Chairman (Child abuse and negligence)