Congress passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton and backed by CCHR, setting a key precedent for future youth protections.

*Warning: This story contains details that may disturb some people* 300 NZ children were tortured with electroshock at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital between 1972 and… ...

Legislators call for a ban on seclusion rooms and restraint use on schoolchildren, but CCHR says it must extend to all physical and chemical restraint… ...

Watchdog says patient protections from physical, chemical and sexual abuse in child behavioral facilities starts with patients and families reporting abuse and media investigations putting… ...

Why is it that psychiatry is the only sector in the medical system that generates movements to oppose its oppressive powers and damaging treatments? Why… ...

CCHR investigation also finds potential dangerous billing for ECT By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog August 29, 2018 The mental health watchdog group Citizens… ...

CCHR acknowledges media as inadvertent watchdogs that can influence legislators to enact protections against increasing incidents of sexual and restraint abuse of teens in psychiatric… ...

With government waste raising economic concerns for the country, it is time to demand accountability for the $40 billion allocated to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). The agency has ...

A Minnesota man, David Russell, 44, has successfully fought against being court-ordered to receive further damaging electroshock treatment.[1] The movement to help Mr. Russell was started by Mind ...

In commemoration of Universal Children’s Day in November and Human Rights Day on December 10th, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International launched a new campaign in the U.S. aimed at ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health industry watchdog founded in 1969 to support the principles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted ...

CCHR International fortifies its commitment to cleaning up the field of mental healing amid the current dangerous trend in psychiatry—psychedelics, forced treatment and targeting minorities….