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In a major human rights victory, Italy bans involuntary psychiatric detention without due process. The ruling challenges coercive mental health practices worldwide.

Disability Rights NC urges an end to coercive psychiatric detentions after exposing widespread misuse in North Carolina.

Governor Kathy Hochul wanted to gut protections and expand psychiatric human rights abuse. New York lawmakers said no.

Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.

Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for urgent change.

The ease of being involuntarily committed under Florida law discourages many veterans from seeking help. Jordan Hunkin’s suicide is a too-common outcome.

They call it “involuntary transport” to hide what they’re really doing: facilitating psychiatric human rights abuse. 

The University of Birmingham’s first-of-its-kind analysis of 111 studies from 25 nations reveals that psychiatric patients are traumatized and abused.

The VA admits their own deficient care and wrongful use of Florida’s Baker Act in relation to Jordan Hunkin’s death. Worse, it’s far from the first time.

Mary Fulp was involuntarily committed to a mental health facility and forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs—all “because I love Jesus,” she says.