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CCHR Exhibition On Mental Health And Human Rights
Monday, 8 April 2024, 11:07 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
This exhibition aims to educate and inform people about the origins of psychiatry and its history of human rights abuse. It exposes an industry driven entirely by profit, whose purported “therapeutic” benefits have often resulted in serious ... More >>
Citizens Commission on Human Rights New Zealand
Friday, 15 May 2015, 9:53 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights More >>
Rights group appalled at increased use of electroshock
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 4:50 pm | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
CCHR is concerned that electric shock treatment has more than doubled in the last year according to the latest statistics from the Director of Mental Health. Women receive more electroshock than men, including a fivefold increase in women aged 40-44 ... More >>
World Suicide Prevention Day
Friday, 10 September 2010, 11:53 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Action is being called for today, a month after the Chief Coroner asked for more openness to suicide in New Zealand. 10 September marks World Suicide Prevention Day and according to the World Health Organisation, this amounts to a million people ... More >>
Urgent action called over abuse in State facility
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 9:05 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Mental health watchdog, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is appalled at the lack of action in referring the sexual abuse allegations of a young woman in state care to the Police. More >>
ADHD Guidelines Need Reviewing In New Zealand
Friday, 15 January 2010, 10:24 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Bias research, drug company funded experts and severe drug reactions surround changes to ADHD guidelines in Australia; and New Zealand is being urged to follow suit. More >>
Exhibition on Human Rights and Psychiatry
Monday, 6 April 2009, 1:17 pm | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Bad at maths? Get annoyed or angry for no good reason? Don’t get on with your sister, brother, aunty, budgie? Can’t wait to get your next coffee fix? Perhaps the interactive documentary-style Exhibition on Human Rights & Mental Health can put you straight ... More >>
Anti-Psychiatry Exhibit On Display
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 12:54 pm | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Anti-Psychiatry Exhibit On Display The Auckland-based Citizens Commission on Human Rights are showing their "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" exhibit over the next two weeks in Auckland City. The 2-metre high and 40-metre long exhibition ... More >>
NZ's human rights record: submissions due
Monday, 2 March 2009, 12:37 pm | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
In May 2009, the government's overall performance on human rights will be examined for the first time through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. The UPR is a mechanism established in 2006 whereby the UN Human Rights Council reviews whether ... More >>
Mental Health Report into TORAN HENRY
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 11:10 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND Established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights More >>
Antidepressants harmful as well as ineffective
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 4:02 pm | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Mental health watchdog claims antidepressants are not only ineffective as a recent British study reveals, but can also be dangerous for your health. “It should be widely known that these drugs can cause severe reactions with people,” said Steve ... More >>
New Psychological Testing of Children is Abusive
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 1:38 pm | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Citizens Commission On Human Rights New Zealand Established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights More >>
Psychiatry Exposed Exhibition
Monday, 12 July 2004, 11:15 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
The anti-psychiatry display in the North City Mall, Porirua, appears to have been criticised by a couple of people in the Porirua News recently. However our organisation received nothing but praise from people who stopped to read the panels and talk to ... More >>
Psychiatry: a Human Rights Abuse tour
Monday, 12 July 2004, 12:28 am | Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Last month the international psychiatric watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights conducted a tour of North Island venues with a 40-metre display depicting psychiatry's failures over the past century. More >>
