Amnesty International has welcomed yesterday's announcement by the Department of Health and Minister Kathleen Lynch to review the 2001 Mental Health Act against international human rights standards.
Proposals to cut €35m and end progress on mental health service reform is a short-term fix that could lead to longer-term problems, Amnesty International has warned today.
Responding to the two-part RTÉ television documentary series, Behind the Walls, which concluded yesterday, Amnesty International Ireland supports calls for an investigation into what the series revealed about Ireland’s psychiatric hospital system.
Philomena Keyes was 80 when she stepped into a recording studio for the first time. A musician all her life, she had passed a love of song onto her 11 children, but for the first time her youngest daughter, Irish singer Trudi Lalor, had convinced her to record her voice.
A panel of national and international human rights experts will today, 31 May, hear from people with mental health problems on the difficulties they face accessing their rights to education, work, suitable housing and welfare.
