Posicionamiento del Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer

10D – Human Rights Day

Celebrating World Human Rights Day, in the field of mental health, is an opportunity to raise your voice and denounce any measure that violates the dignity, integrity and freedom of people.

These values, which seem typical of a modern, evolved society that looks to the future, are threatened in the letter of the Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention.

According to this text, in certain circumstances that may arise from a serious mental disorder, involuntary admissions and treatments may be carried out; which is, according to our experience, the gateway to coercive measures.

This scenario is contrary to that provided for by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which means we are at a crossroads of values ​​within International Law. Thus, we clearly position ourselves in favor of the United Nations Charter.

The excuses are the same as always: medical practice has no response in accordance with rights in the event of a serious situation.

Given that a psychiatric diagnosis can put our freedom in danger, and considering the harms, many people will stop asking for help.

Given this, our proposal would be the implementation of a Comprehensive Psychosocial Care framework, which contemplates the rights approach in all its phases; and tell us about a restorative life project.

Human dignity, and another ethical view of medical practice, cannot be postponed waiting for an allocation of resources and planning that never arrives. We demand political commitment and transformative will.

Our fundamental rights must have a solid and structural anchor, and said provision of resources must not be exposed to changing policies.

In the conviction that the Welfare State is what must convey our rights, we demand the promotion and expansion of public services.

We demand universal accessibility, not only in terms of physical barriers, but also in terms of psychosocial barriers.

The reason that separates order from chaos is coordination, so we call for the synergies of public administrations, so that the social inclusion of our group is a reality.

This Day reminds us that all people, without exception, deserve to live with freedom and dignity. It is not excessive to ask for this respect, since even today, the natural right to inclusion continues to face judgmental gazes, silences that separate, and barriers that limit.

We are always in a position to take the path towards a just society, to tear down the wall of fear, and to open doors towards the fullness of rights.

In this challenge that is the construction of the human being, every gesture counts.

State Network of Women and Committee for Mental Health In First Person of MENTAL HEALTH SPAIN.