FYI
Colin
Dear friends:
I send you this global message to forward you the invitation to the presentation of the following publication into mental health and human rights, which is going to be released by Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS). You will see this invitation's details (and some advances of the findings and the conclusions; the translation is mine...) after this short message of mine.
As many of you might know, I worked in the elaboration of this publication as a researcher for MDRI.
I am convinced that this report will change the Argentinian's mental health system in many essential ways.
. For some of you who are in Argentina (Buenos Aires):
please try to go to the presentation, the participation of all of us is key to achieve a better society, in this case for persons with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities, and in summary, for everyone.
. For the rest of you who, as me, can not go to the
presentation: please read the invitation's content, and also I copy following two web pages through the ones we can get more information and collaborate... . Mental Disability Rights International, http://www.mdri.org/ CELS, http://www.cels.org.ar/ Thank you very much for your time and interest. With very best wishes! Ana.
Publication into Mental Health and Human Rights
CELS-MDRI
CELS and MDRI will present next Tuesday 25 at 6pm, in the Auditory of the Annex to the Argentinian Chamber of Deputies, Av. Rivadavia 1865, the publication "Devastated lives: the segregation of the persons in the Argentinian psychiatric asylums", a report which document violations of human rights against the approximately 25.000 persons who are asyled in the Argentinian psychiatric institutions.
The publication presents the results of a study carried out by CELS and MDRI, between June of 2004 and July of 2007. The work teams visited many institutions for persons with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities in the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero, Río Negro and San Luis, and maintained interviews with functionaries, professionals, institutionalized persons and non governmental organizations.
The investigation registered grave facts of abuse and negligence in public psychiatric asylums and documented, inclusively, cases of persons who died incinerated, detention in isolation cells for long periods and acts of physical and sexual violence. The publication also details unhealthy situations as the lack of water in the bathrooms, the lack of sewers, threatens to the security and risks of fire in the institutions. The report concludes that institutionalization in a big scale and the abuses which accompany it, are given, in a big percentage, to decades of investment in big institutions which segregate persons, instead of the elaboration of politics and the destination of necessary resources for the development of mental health services and support in the communities.
The report also recognizes that Argentina is a country where there are conditions to develop a reform into mental health, with a respect for human rights, because there exist initiatives of laws, politics and attention programs profoundly innovators, which can work as an example for the public politics of other regions of the country, as the experiences of reform implemented in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Río Negro and San Luis, reforms which are also analyzed in this publication.
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