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Actiegroep Tekeer tegen de isoleer! - Stichting Mind Rights
The Netherlands
http://www.antiisosite.tk  or  http://www.mindrights.nl 

Dutch Protest Group Against Exclusion
and Against Isolation Cells in Psychiatry

for Human Rights in Psychiatry and Mental Health Care

Improve Psychiatry & Mental Health Care

stop exclusion, start to care!

Mental Health Care should better build bridges instead of walls.

Report: the Red Paper (May 2006)
WSF report (April 2007)

NEW:    GFCMH Report: Breaking the cells down (June 2007)

A Call for ASSEMBLY:

A shock, a cell or a chain,
will not make a person go sane.

There is no pill,
 for every ill.

Please communicate with patients,
and do not drill.

Stop exclusion,
 start to care.

United
we want to make everyone aware.

Is psychiatry to bear?
or not to bear?

We , the patients, want to live!
Do not let us down into the deepest cliff.

Please, Hear our shouts
Please, Let us out!

Do not ruin all those lives by walls
Build new bridges and become real Mental Health Professionals.

More information about
Actiegroep Tekeer tegen de isoleer! 
 is available on our full website
 http://www.antiisosite.tk (NL)

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Other Links:

Nederlands Sociaal Forum (NSF)
European Social forum (ESF)
World Social Forum (WSF)

European Network User Survivors Psychiatry (ENUSP)
World Network Users Survivors psychiatry (WNUSP)
Stichting Time-Out (NL)

MindFreedom (International)

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Other activities Actiegroep Tekeer tegen de isoleer! - The Netherlands

for an overview of Dutch activities go to www.mindrights.nl

International Activity Report:

22-24 October 2009 : Stockholm, Sweden
Speaking at the 6th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry

As experience expert from the user perspective I gave a personal presentation.

Read the Article which I presented
"Psychiatry in the age of Neuroscience: the impact on clinical practice and lives of patients"
 http://www.springerlink.com/content/x801v44w4555h564/

 Official site of the European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry:
 http://www.oudconsultancy.nl/stockholm/ecvcp/Invitation.html

 My Dutch report of the congress (in 3 parts):
http://tekeertegendeisoleer.web-log.nl/tekeertegendeisoleer/2009/10/verslag-3--euro.html
and my travel report: www.punkertje.waarbenjij.nu

15-20 March 2009 : Kampala, Uganda
Global Assembly
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)

A meeting in Kampala, Uganda, with user-organizations from all over the world.
The theme was: Making our rights a reality – Human Rights in the Age of the CRPD.
What does the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) mean for us?

In Kampala I was chosen as a Board member and also Treasurer
of the worldnetwork WNUSP

The official website of WNUSP is www.wnusp.net
My Dutch report and travel-blog can be found at www.punkertje.waarbenjij.nu  

I also visited the user movement NAUSPR (National Association of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Rwanda)
It was very impressive and inspiring.

Here is an interesting documentary made by MindFreedom Ghana:
Part 1                                                        Part 2
          

9 - 11 August 2008 & 2007: Reggae Sundance Festival , E3-strand Eersel, the Netherlands
Reggae Sundance Charity Picture

Fundraising activity for African user organizations.
We made 500 euro by selling pictures, and we divided this
amongst three user movements in Africa:
Ubuntu Centre in South Africa
Makana-Group in Kenya, and
usergroup of Sylvester Katontoka in Zambia

(painted by Jolijn Santegoeds)

30-31 May 2007, Global Forum on Community Mental Health
main sponsors: Basic Needs, CBM and WHO
held at WHO head office, Geneva, Switzerland
more info on GFCMH on http://www.gfcmh.com

my contribution to GFCMH is a new report :
Report: Breaking the cells down (June 2007)

impression of Global Forum

The 7th World Social Forum (WSF)
took place in Nairobi, Kenya from January 20-25th, 2007

Our Workshop Mental Health Care
was On the Agenda of the WSF-conference on January 22.
It was a big success and more than 100 people attended our workshop.

impression of WSF workshop

We have spread leaflets with our WSF statements

WSF 2007 report - click here.
Including the things we learned from travelling around in Eastern Africa from January 7th 2007 to February 7th 2007, visiting several places where patients with mental problems usually are at.

The participants of the WSF in Nairobi, Kenya were:
from Europe:

1. Actiegroep Tekeer tegen de isoleer! – Stichting Mind Rights :
www.mindrights.nl and www.mindrights.org
Miss Jolijn Santegoeds, Eindhoven, the Netherlands: tekeertegendeisoleer@hotmail.com
telephone: +31 .40-2515342

2. Clienten Centrum Limburg - Stichting Time Out :
www.stichting-time-out.nl
Mr. Jan Verhaegh: jhaverhaegh@gmail.com
Mrs. Marietje Lemmens: marietjelemmens@gmail.com
Valkenburg a/d Geul, Netherlands, telephone +31 .43-601 3857

* representing WNUSP & ENUSP: www.wnusp.org and www.enusp.org

from Africa:

3. TUSPO (Tanzania Users / Survivors of Psychiatry Organization) Dar Es Salaam,
Mr. Eliezer Robert Mdakilya: a_efound@yahoo.com

4. PANUSP (Pan African Network Users Survivors Psychiatry) East section:
* Comforter's Club and Comforter's Centre, Uganda, Kampala,
Mrs Veronica Nakyewe: vnakyewe@yahoo.com telephone: +256 41234613

5. NOUSPR: Network Organization of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Rwanda
Mr Sam Badege, Kigali, Rwanda: badegesam@yahoo.fr
 

In solidarity with those we were not able to come to Nairobi:
* Mindfreedom Ghana: http://www.mindfreedom.org/aff-spon/act/inter/mfghana  Accra,
Mr. Dan Taylor: mindfreedomghana@yahoo.co.uk telephone: +233 277 421 207
* PANUSP South section: http://moosa-salie.oism.info

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In the near future more information of these African user movements
will be hosted on this website  ( www.mindrights.org )

The Neoliberal Alphabet of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
is now subjected to improvements.

We will keep you informed,
please visit this website regularly.

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Activity Reports :

4th  European Social Forum 2006
Athens, Greece

Our first international activity was very recently:
Workshop Inside Mental Health Care & Psychiatry
Friday May 5th 2006, 14.30
Place: room F 05 at 4th ESF, Athens, Greece

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It was a big succes. More than 40 people attended the meeting. The room was full, and sometimes people were standing in the back, because all the seats were full. Everyone agreed on our topics. And all the copies of our information were taken by the visitors. Even the leaflets from the wall were taken.
Erik Scaltriti from Madrid, Spain volunteered to video-tape the complete meeting, which took 3 full hours. 
And we gathered a lot of new contacts across Europe, from a lot of organisations.

More information on the extension of our networks will follow.
Please visit this site regularly to stay informed.

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Athens ESF report

The contents from this conference in Athens is divided into a few parts.
This report made by:  Jolijn Santegoeds, Actiegroep Tekeer tegen de isoleer! NL

Part 1. Our ESF statements which were proposed, discussed and agreed on the ESF 2006.

Part 2. Information which we spread at the ESF in Athens

Part 3. Introduction the first part of the meeting, containing:
    Jolijn Santegoeds (Actiegroep Tekeer tegen de isoleer!)
text: From psychiatric patient to activist

    Jan Verhaegh (European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, ENUSP)
text: Not on the Agenda (2005)  (Includes reports of his trip across Central Europe)

    Marietje Lemmens ( Stichting Time -out )
text: Statement Women Organization Time-Out

    (A report of the discussion will be added)

Part 4. Next to do & Other Information

Part 5. Investigating Psychiatry in Greece
 

Please. Don't hesitate to contact us
tekeertegendeisoleer@hotmail.com

Final Result: The RED PAPER !!

As a result of all the above, we have sent our reaction to the EU on the Green Paper : Improving the health of the population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union:

READ OUR:

The Red Paper on improving mental health care -
Declaration of Patient Organizations on mental health care
NEW DOCUMENT!!! (click to read)

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Summary
 

Psychiatry is in big trouble,
and we want to do something about that.

It’s urgent, and you can support us by telling this along, and send us back your results.

Actiongroup Tekeer tegen de isoleer! (Beat Isolation Cells)

part of foundation (Stichting) Mind Rights (www.mindrights.nl )

 

Isolation cell

Please. Don't hesitate to contact us

tekeertegendeisoleer@hotmail.com