Fundación MUNDO BIPOLAR
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Guadalupe Morales Cano, Deputy Chair of ENUSP, (European Network of (-Ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry), the only grassroots umbrella organisation working across Europe to unite local and national organizations of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry. The organization represents directly the views of people who are or have been on the receiving end of psychiatric services, https://enusp.org/ She is Director of Fundación Mundo Bipolar. After being diagnosed with a mental health problem, and losing her job as a journalist, because of that, Mrs. Morales promoted the creation of Fundación Mundo Bipolar (2004). This organization is a non-profit national NGO of people with lived experience. It fights against stigma and discrimination, based in the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Pioneer in peer2peers training. Mrs. Morales had teaching positions at universities in Spain and USA. Currently is professor in the Masters: Universitat Jaume I, in Valencia, Spain; teaches: “Media and Stigma”, at Universidade NOVA Lisbon, International Learning Program. Subjects: Human Rights, Discrimination, UNCRD. Is one of the 16 partners of 11 countries in an Horizon2020 Research project, Recover-E. Trains professionals and peer workers to be part of Community Mental Health Teams, in five Eastern countries. Member: Human Rights Committee of Mental Health Europe (MHE). Represents Users at the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR), member of their Training Committee. Women´s Committee European Disability Forum (EDF), Member of the Advisory Boards of: World Psychiatry Association (WPA), Advisory Group Service Users & Family Carers and the one on Alternatives to coercion. Commissioner of Lancet Commission on Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health. Representative of users at the Spanish Mental Health Strategy Her main interests are: raising of the voice of people with mental health problems, at a political level, to have a meaningful involvement in every aspect related to this collective to promote their Rights, developing projects on training peers and professionals and research.

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Tue, 02.08.2022
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13:00 - 14:00
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THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE TO FIND PRACTICAL WAYS TO REDUCE COERCION

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Wed, 03.08.2022
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08:30 - 12:30
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10:40 - 11:10
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HUMAN RIGHTS: FIRST! NOTHING ABOUT US, WITHOUT US

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Tue, 02.08.2022
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13:00 - 14:00
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13:00 - 13:20
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Having a mental health problem affects all dimensions of life. Article 25 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities establishes that we must receive the best care possible. Unfortunately this does not happen. There are deficiencies of all kinds; lack of professionals, or psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation aid, but, above all, there´s a crucial need of an approach based on the Convention, which establishes that our situation must have a social perspective. Psychosocial disability is not just a medical problem. The barriers that we find are not faced from the perspective of the paradigm shift advocated by the convention. Article 29, “Right to Independent Living” is too often neglected or even ignored.
We are not "mentally ill", our essence is not the disease", this just a circumstance that does not have to be chronic. This is where the stigmatization and discrimination that we suffer arise, also unfortunately from care professionals in mental health.
For this reason, from first-person activism, we demand that our situation be addressed from the point of view of human rights in the first place, as subjects with rights and not as objects of care. If not, they will be left without contemplating the other facets claimed by the Convention. The suffering comes from the mental health problems themselves and from their terrible consequences in our lives; isolation, discrimination, not having economic self-sufficiency, housing, or rights... It´s an imperative to work all together.Our Voice has to be heard: Nothing about us without us!
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