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Overview
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a
non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to
investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of
human rights.
It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric
industry are reported to the proper authorities and
acted upon.
What are Human Rights?
It is your human right to be free from false
accusation when you have not committed any crime. Within
psychiatry, patients are involuntarily committed, imprisoned,
or detained without committing an offence whereby "patients" or
prisoners are often forced and subjected to unwanted,
brutal and harmful practices against their will, that
don't produce cures. This would be a violation of your
human rights.
Humanitarian and philosopher,
L. Ron Hubbard, described human rights in the following
way:
“The very basis of human rights is freedom from
false accusations and from brutality and punishment
without offense.”
Citizens Commission on Human Rights documents, investigates
and exposes psychiatry's crimes against their patients.
We fight for your right not to be accused of something
and then brutally punished by psychiatrists. We champion
human rights, freedom from false accusations and from
brutality and punishment without offense.
The
Citizens Commission on Human Rights in the United
Kingdom:
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights
(CCHR) United Kingdom is one of a number of CCHRs established
in 34 different countries all dedicated to the protection and
promotion of human rights.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights
was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas
Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University
of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, to investigate
and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. At that time
the victims of psychiatry were a forgotten minority group, often
kept in appalling conditions in institutions around the world,
and denied the most basic of human rights. Because of this, CCHR
formulated a Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights, that serves
as its guide for mental health reform. Today, CCHR has more than
135 chapters in 34 countries.
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Acknowledged by the special rapporteur to
the United Nations Human Rights Commission as responsible for “many
great reforms” that protect mental patients from human rights
abuses, CCHRs have documented thousands of individual cases. Their
work has helped save the lives of thousands and prevented needless
suffering for thousands more. Many countries have now mandated informed
consent for psychiatric treatment and the right to legal representation,
advocacy, recourse and compensation where abuses occur.
CCHR members include prominent psychiatrists, doctors, lawyers,
artists, educators, civil and human rights representatives and professionals
who see it as their duty to "expose and help abolish any and
all physically damaging practices in the field of mental healing".
They work to accomplish these clearly stated aims with many like-minded
individuals and groups, including politicians, teachers, health
professionals, government, law enforcement and the media.
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