A new article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry finds that in the UK, first-episode psychosis (FEP) is more common in Pakistanis who live in white-majority areas.

madinamerica.com/2024/04/ethnic…

Insights from drafting and consulting on Nepal’s mental health legislation from 2006 to 2017.

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A few hours to go - register at link below 👇

14 grandmothers created the foundation for Friendship Bench in 2006. Today we laid to rest one of them-Monica, the petite soft spoken angel from Mbare. Thank you for showing us the way…..

Persons from minority ethnic backgrounds living with a mental health condition bear the brunt of ‘double stigma’. Moreover, even though we are over-represented in acute psychiatric services, not only do we feel excluded in discussions about our mental healthcare we are silenced &…

So I’m back in England & I just opened a package containing the latest copies of my book! I’m super excited! I can’t deny it, I’m really emotional. It hasn’t been easy. Leaving my parents behind in Lebanon when I was 17 & coming to England. Working 70 hours a week to survive.…

Women shouldn’t require superpowers to juggle #breastfeeding and work.

All moms everywhere, no matter their work or contract type, should have:
🔹 At least 18 weeks, preferably 6 months or more, of paid maternity leave
🔹 Paid time off for breastfeeding or expressing milk upon…

📢 Inscríbete al webinar de la OMS sobre 'La desescalada en salud mental: práctica y herramientas' (en inglés).

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🗓️ 26/04
🕒 12.30pm
💻 Online (Zoom) 

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I'm pleased to announce our second World Health Organization (WHO) #QualityRights training webinar on:

Crisis De-escalation: Practice & Tools

26 April, 12.30 to 14.00 CEST.

Register here:
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Live: High-level dialogue between World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and UN Human Rights Volker Türk on how to continue to advance human rights for health in a world in turmoil.

The responsibility is on us all to protect and promote #HumanRights to achieve #HealthForAll #WorldHealthDay …

Today is #WorldHealthDay2024

let us be reminded that there is

No Health Without #MentalHealth
&
No Mental Health Without #HumanRights

Become a World Health Organization (WHO) #QualityRights advocate and promote human rights in mental health

#MyHealthMyRight #WorldHealthDay2024

Health is included as a human right in the constitutions of 140 countries, yet billions are still denied this fundamental right in practice.

It's time for action to bridge this gap.

This #WorldHealthDay and everyday, let’s fight for #MyHealthMyRight bit.ly/2024WorldHealt…

Today is #WorldHealthDay

More than half of the world’s population is not covered by essential health services.

No one should be excluded.
Your access to health care is your right bit.ly/2024WorldHealt…

#MyHealthMyRight

Join Volker Türk, High Commissioner UN Human Rights and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as we mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of #HumanRights and WHO.

Let's discuss ways to safeguard the right to health in the face of conflicts and the climate crisis: bit.ly/3TKX6jI…

Looking forward to this pilot focusing on feasibility, acceptability & preliminarily evidence of effectiveness of Friendship Bench in Washington DC -making our vision of a friendship bench within walking distance for everyone a step closer to reality

“We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society.”

theguardian.com/global/2024/ma…

For a charity to assert that a person with dementia has “died” (before they have died) is a huge miscalculation. It’s step backwards in framing disability and describing how people living with dementia disabled are supported. It’s not “hard-hitting”; it’s repulsive. Kate Lee

📢 Quedan dos días para el webinar de la OMS sobre el camino hacia la cero coerción a los servicios de salud mental (en inglés). ¡Inscríbete!

✍️ who.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🗓️ 22/03
🕒 3pm
💻 Online (Zoom) 

Michelle Funk #derechos #SaludMental #QualityRights