The UN and WHO have launched a blueprint for laws that prioritize the human rights of patients.
A new joint UN and WHO report is calling for legislation that emphasizes the human rights of patients.Mental health, human rights and legislation: Guidance and practice’
is co-published by the World Health Organization and the United Nations . It prioritises the human rights of people who use mental health services, which is an entirely different approach to most current mental health laws, which are focused primarily on compulsion and containment. The international reforms proposed are based on a clear understanding of what is wrong with our current, medicalised, approaches to human distress:The 184-page document boldly spells out, in considerable detail, why new legislation is needed, around the world, to transcend the medical model espoused by drug companies, most psychiatrists, and even some psychologists:.
Legislation on mental health must take a new direction away from the narrow traditional “biomedical paradigm” that has contributed to coercive and confined environments in mental health services.
Significant controversy surrounds the use of ECT and its associated risks, and there have been calls for it to be banned altogether. Its use has dramatically declined in many countries, and in Luxembourg and Slovenia, for example, it is not made available. . . . International human rights standards clarify that ECT without consent violates the right to physical and mental integrity and may constitute torture and ill-treatment.
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