World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) is an international organisation representing, and led by what it terms "
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WNUSP has special consultative status with the United Nations. It contributed to the development of the UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.[1][2] WNUSP has produced a manual to help people use it entitled "Implementation Manual for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", edited by Myra Kovary.[3]
WNUSP joined with other organizations to create the International Disability Caucus, which jointly represented organizations of people with disabilities and allies during the CRPD negotiations. WNUSP was part of the steering committee of the IDC, which maintained a principle of respecting the leadership of diverse constituencies on issues affecting them, and also maintained that the convention should be of equal value to all persons with disabilities irrespective of the type of disability or geographical location. Tina Minkowitz, WNUSP's representative on the IDC steering committee, coordinated the IDC's work on key articles of the CRPD, including those on legal capacity, liberty, torture and ill-treatment and integrity of the person. Since the adoption and entry into force of the CRPD, WNUSP has worked with other organizations in the International Disability Alliance and its CRPD Forum to guide the interpretation and application of the CRPD on these issues.[4]
In 2007 at a Conference held in Dresden on "Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review", the president and other leaders of the World Psychiatric Association met, following a formal request from the World Health Organization, with several representatives from the user/survivor movement, including Judi Chamberlin (Co-chair of WNUSP), Mary Nettle and Peter Lehmann (Ex-chairs of the European Network of [Ex-] Users and Survivors of Psychiatry), Dorothea Buck (Honorary Chair of the German Federal Organisation of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, and David Oaks (Director of MindFreedom International).[5][6]
Salam Gómez and Jolijn Santegoeds are the current Co-Chairpersons of WNUSP.
Current International Representative and former co-chair of WNUSP is Tina Minkowitz, an international advocate and lawyer.[7] She represented WNUSP in the Working Group convened by the UN to produce a draft text of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities[8] and contributed to a UN seminar on torture and persons with disabilities[9][10] that resulted in an important report on the issue by Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak in 2008.[11]
History
Since the 1970s, the psychiatric survivors movement has grown from a few scattered self-help groups to a worldwide network engaged in protecting
After initially meeting, in 1991, as the World Federation of Psychiatric Users at the biennial
In 2004, the network held its Second General Assembly in
In 2007 WNUSP received ECOSOC special consultative status at the United Nations.
In 2009, WNUSP held its third General Assembly in Kampala, Uganda. It adopted the Kampala Declaration stating its positions on the CRPD, which was later expanded into a longer version adopted by consensus of the board and the participants in the Kampala GA.[12]
ENUSP
The European Network of (Ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry is the most important European
See also
- Anti-psychiatry
- Icarus Project
- Involuntary commitment
- MindFreedom International
- Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth
- EUFAMI
- Judi Chamberlin
- Peter Lehmann
References
- ^ a b "UN Enable - Promoting the rights of Persons with Disabilities - Contribution by WNUSP".
- ^ "UN Enable - Working Group - Contribution by World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) 30 December 2003".
- ^ "IMPLEMENTATION MANUAL for the UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES" (DOC). Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ^ "CRPD".
- ^ Mezzich, J.E. (2007) The dialogal basis of our profession: Psychiatry with the Person World Psychiatry. 2007 October; 6(3): 129–130.
- ^ Video, photo and word documentation from the perspective of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry from the congress "Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review" Dresden, Germany, June 6-8, 2007.
- ^ "UN Enable - Experts and activists available for interviews". www.un.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22.
- ^ "UN Enable - Ad Hoc Committee - Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Working Group".
- ^ http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/disability/seminartorturereportfinal.doc [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Forced interventions and institutionalization as torture". Archived from the original on 2015-10-18. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
- ^ "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
- ^ "General Assemblies".
- ^ Hollis, I. (2002) About the impossibility of a single (ex-) user and survivor of psychiatry position Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Volume 104 Issue s410, Pages 102 - 106
External links
- WNUSP - World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP main web site)
- ENUSP - European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP main web site)
- ENUSP.org - 'ENUSP Press Release' (July 20, 2004)
- Inclusion-International.org - International Disability Alliance
- Moosa-Salie.oism.info - 'Launching Conference of the Pan African Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (PANUSP)', Moosa Salie
- CHRUSP - Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- UN.org - 'Contribution by World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry', United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (January, 2004)