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----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Arj <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, 11 November 2011, 11:30 Subject: [Enusp] Fwd: Lesbian torture clinics Hi everyoneIt seems psychiatry's malfeasance against homosexuals still continues in some countries. This is disgraceful. In 1992 the World Health Organisation officially demedicalised homosexuality. It was a disgrace that this was ever a mental illness and it's even worse to hear it still continues in some parts of the world. People are being oppressed and torture just as psychiatric patients have always had immoral 'treatment' done in the name of mental healthcare.Please sign the petition and share on social network platforms.Thanks in advanceArjPSI'm impressed with the Change.org interface. It looks like another web service which offers something free and something pay-for. I've not tried it but it looks like a good epetition site. Facebook integration is a nice feature and increases sign up rates from people on Facebook.Be warned though: this is a for-profit site. It sells on email addresses as one way to make money. (The spam filter for my Google email is very good so I'm not too worried about it.)-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Lesbian torture clinics Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:37:30 -0800 From: Weldon Kennedy, Change.org <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Shut down ex-gay clinics in Ecuador that are using torture to "cure" homosexuality Dear Arj, Paola Ziritti is unthinkably brave to speak publicly about the "clinic." She endured physical assault, sexual abuse, and a constant battery of insults. Guards would even throw buckets of cold water and urine on her. For two years, this was Paola’s waking nightmare... because she’s a lesbian. The "doctors" and guards at the clinic were trying to "cure" her. Paola lives in Ecuador, where these so-called clinics are terrifyingly common -- although the government shut down 27 this year, 180 clinics remain open, and most of the prisoners there are women. (Some gay men and transgender people are in the clinics as well, but far fewer.) Paola's parents knew they were sending her to a forced confinement clinic, but they had no idea how awful it would be. Once Paola's mother realized what she’d done, she tried to get her daughter back, but the clinic said no. The process to free Paola took a year. A few incredibly courageous Ecuadorian women are fighting back -- they call themselves Fundacion Causana.The women of Fundacion Causana started a petition on Change.org demanding that Ecuadoran Minister of Public Health Dr. David Chiriboga Allnut investigate and shut down all 180 remaining clinics that torture women to "cure" them. Please sign the petition right now. Fundacion Causana does direct-service work on the ground to save women from the clinics, but they say it's not enough. They need the unbridled support of the Ecuadoran government to get all of the clinics shut down. So far, the government has only shut down a small cluster of clinics in one region of the country. Ecuador's government officials need to know that we are watching and will not stand idly by while women are imprisoned and tortured. Please sign Fundacion Causana's petition demanding that the Ecuadoran Minister of Public Health investigate and shut down every "clinic" that tortures members of Ecuador’s LGBT community: http://www.change.org/petitions/fiscal-general-del-estado-close-fake-clinics-that-torture-lgbt-in-order-to-cure-them Thanks for being a change-maker, - Weldon and the Change.org team This email was sent by Change.org to [log in to unmask] | Start a petition Unsubscribe from future weekly updates. Edit your email notification settings. _______________________________________________Enusp mailing [log in to unmask]://listes.lautre.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/enusp ___________________________________ There is a twitter feed: http://twitter.com/CommPsychUK (to post contact Grant [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe or to change your details on this COMMUNITYPSYCHUK list, visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK