Citizens Commission on Human Rights - België/Belgique

27/12/2025

11/12/2025

🗣️ GOOD NEWS ✨

The SOC Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has just unanimously rejected the draft protocol that sought to regulate involuntary placement and involuntary treatment in psychiatry. For years, UN experts, organizations and people directly concerned had been warning that this text violated human rights and the CRPD.
This is a major turning point: Europe is acknowledging that coercion in mental health must be reduced, not legitimized. The final vote will take place in January 2026.

10/10/2025

🌍 World Mental Health Day – October 10

Mental health is not an individual matter.
It is a common good, woven into our relationships, our living conditions, our rights, and our dignity.

Too often, “mental health” is reduced to diagnoses, treatments, or the sole responsibility of the person.
But how can we speak of psychological well-being without speaking of housing, education, social justice, emotional security, cultural respect, and freedom?

To preserve mental health is to protect the human contexts that make it possible.
It means rethinking our institutions, our schools, our workplaces, and our communities so that they no longer exhaust, humiliate, or exclude.

On this World Day, let us remember:
👉 Mental health is not a personal luxury, but a collective responsibility.
👉 Dignity and consent are not options — they are foundations.

🕊️ A truly healthy society is one that heals its relationships before medicalizing its wounds.

08/06/2025

📢 The exhibition on psychiatric abuse in Bruxelles has come to an end… but the fight goes on.

Over several days, we welcomed a wide audience who came to learn, share, and in many cases, testify. Numerous testimonies were given to us, confirming that psychiatric abuse is not a thing of the past — it is still happening today.

Among these were powerful accounts not only from victims, but also from medical professionals, both former and current staff from psychiatric institutions.

🎤 Here is one of those testimonies. It sends chills down the spine.

We cannot remain silent.
📣 Join us in taking action: document distribution, conferences, training sessions… anything is possible. Together, let’s say STOP to abuse in psychiatry.

02/06/2025

Ne manquez pas de visiter notre exposition gratuite du 2 au 6 juin. ✅ Tous sont les bienvenus à cette exposition internationale sur la Psychiatrie : Abus et violation des droits de l'homme
Le programme: ⌚️
le 2 juin 2025: 15h - 21h
3, 4, 5 juin: 10h30 - 18h
6 juin: 10h30 -15h
L'adresse: 📍
Hotel NH Brussels Carrefour de l'Europe, Rue Marche aux Herbes, Grasmarkt 110, 1000 Brussel

14/04/2025

📢 Appel à bénévoles à Bruxelles

Vous habitez Bruxelles ou les environs ? Rejoignez-nous pour des actions d’information au cœur de la ville !

Nous organiserons prochainement des distributions de documents pour sensibiliser le public aux dangers des drogues psychiatriques et informer sur leurs effets souvent méconnus.

🕊️ Cette action se base sur l’Article 19 de la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme :

"Tout individu a droit à la liberté d’opinion et d’expression, ce qui implique le droit de ne pas être inquiété pour ses opinions et celui de chercher, de recevoir et de répandre, sans considérations de frontières, les informations et les idées par quelque moyen d’expression que ce soit."

Informer, c’est déjà agir. Si vous souhaitez participer et nous aider à faire circuler une information essentielle, contactez-nous en message privé.

Merci pour votre soutien !

09/04/2025

📢 The movement continues!

🇪🇸 The demonstration in Spain took place with strength and determination — a big thank you to everyone who took part!

🇧🇪 In June, it’s Brussels’ turn to take action! A new event with the same goal: to give a voice to those who aren't heard, to expose psychiatric abuse, and to defend Human Rights in a spirit of respect and peace.

✨Stay tuned, more info coming very soon!✨

27/03/2025

✨In GENEVA TIMES MARCH 27, 2025✨

The new WHO guidance sets out concrete actions to help countries close these gaps and ensure mental health is promoted and protected, with a focus on:

protecting and upholding human rights, ensuring mental health policies and services are aligned with international human rights standards; […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched new guidance to help all countries reform and strengthen mental health policies and systems.