The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International museum educates the public on the abuses of an industry whose only goal is profit and whose “treatments” too often end in death.
CCHR condemned psychiatry’s racist practices and the chemical imbalance theory during the American Psychiatric Association’s Mental Health Services Conference in Washington, DC.
CCHR Transylvania is on a crusade to protect the children and orphans of Romania from psychiatric abuse through exhibits, pamphlet distribution and educational seminars.
CCHR protesters were right on the doorstep of the annual World Psychiatric Association Congress, protesting abuses in the field of mental health and demanding reform.
Two crusaders for child and parental rights work tirelessly to change Chilean law and protect children from forced psychiatric treatment as a prerequisite to attend school.
The idea of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) developed in 1938 as a “treatment” to make humans more docile, and this barbaric practice is still being used today.
A Miami psychiatrist, Fernando Mendez-Villamil, flooded Miami’s streets with anti-psychotic drugs as part of a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. He was sentenced in 2016 to 12 years in prison and a full $50 million in restitution for his medical fraud and overmedicating his patients.
CCHR celebrated its 50th anniversary in style, looking back over a history of protecting human rights and recognizing its partners in arms with its Human Rights Award.
Since its founding in 1969, CCHR has worked with freedom fighters, courageous attorneys, dedicated legislators and more, who in turn gave words of support on CCHR’s 50th anniversary.
