HUMANITY,
NOT COERCION
People with Psychosocial Disabilities of Singapore
for the Full Realisation of the CRPD
SUBMISSION ON THE EXPANSION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT
In Response to the Call for Public Feedback
by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Law
While PPDFRC welcomes the move to decriminalise attempted suicide, the proposal to expand the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act violates Singapore’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Involuntary hospitalisation is not aligned with the latest World Health Organisation standards. Forced psychiatric intervention has not been found to be effective and in fact increases the likelihood of suicide completion in the future.
Non-coercive approaches are possible.
THE BALI DECLARATION
PPDFRC Supports the Bali Declaration of Transforming Communities for Inclusion of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities - Asia Pacific.
The Bali Declaration was adopted by persons with psychosocial disabilities and cross-disability supporters from 21 member countries across the Asia Pacific region on August 29, 2018. It highlights the systemic violations of our human rights by laws, institutions and communities, one of the primary ways being through laws that authorise involuntary hospitalisation and treatment. The Declaration contains our demands that our human rights be respected, that nothing about us without us is for us, and that the rights guaranteed to us under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities be upheld.
LEARN ABOUT THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
coming soon
THE CRPD AND PERSONS WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES
FREEDOM FROM INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALISATION
FREEDOM FROM FORCED PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTIONS
THE RIGHT TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF
NON-COERCIVE
APPROACHES WORK
coming soon
STATEMENT FROM INTENTIONAL PEER SUPPORT
THE ALTERNATIVES TO SUICIDE APPROACH
BAPU TRUST'S SEHER PROGRAMME
PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT CAN MAKE THINGS WORSE
THE LATEST WORLD HEALTH
ORGANISATION STANDARDS
coming soon
RESPECTING PEOPLE IN DEEP DISTRESS
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION QUALITYRIGHTS
ABOUT
People with Psychosocial Disabilities of Singapore for the Full Realisation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PPDFRC) is a group of persons with psychosocial disabilities which believes in equal regard for persons with psychosocial disabilities as full human beings.
We believe that what we need is not paternalism, coercion and force, but for the power that has been taken away from us by social, medical and legal regimes to be returned to us.