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| FRANCE |

Exposing Human Rights Abuses in France’s Mental Health Hospitals

CCHR France’s investigations revealed systemic abuse in psychiatric facilities, leading to a historic ruling that mandates third-party oversight of restraint and seclusion.

| ATLANTA, GEORGIA |
Anticipation mounted as hundreds of activists, clergy, civil rights advocates and supporters lined up to march in protest of electroshock during the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association.
| INTERNATIONAL |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed so-called childhood “disorders” worldwide, more often than not leading to a prescription for psychostimulants to “treat” it.
| JAPAN |
Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun, is a nation of ancient tradition, spirituality and beauty. But threatening this culture is a psychiatric system that has run unchecked for years.
| NEW MEXICO, USA |
School systems in the United States have become major conduits by which psychiatrists ensure children are placed on brain-damaging and deadly psychiatric drugs.
| ITALY |
Nestled in the Italian Alps, Trento is a postcard-beautiful city. Below that exterior, however, a psychiatric system had been undermining the family unit—the fundamental on which children depend—with large numbers of children involuntarily taken from their parents.
| SWITZERLAND |
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of a Child (UNCRC), a body of 18 independent experts that meet in Geneva, Switzerland to monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is looking into the psychiatric drugging of children in its member states.
| NEW ZEALAND |
In 1976, 13-year-old Hake Halo was one of 350 children imprisoned and tortured in New Zealand’s Lake Alice Hospital. Because his letters were screened, when he wrote to his grandmother he wrote of happiness and good treatment.
| INTERNATIONAL |

Parents give grateful feedback on the information they learned from CCHR.

| WASHINGTON, DC, USA |
Psychopharmaceutical drugging is a key factor in the high rate of suicides among military veterans, experts told United States Senators in November 2014.
| UNITED STATES |
With the suicide rate among veterans nearly triple that of the general population, those who care about our servicemen are urgently searching for an answer that will help solve the crisis. That answer is CCHR’s documentary exposé.
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