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Ghana: Rights Group Highlights Mental Abuse
HRW, 19 November 2013
The recent visit to Ghana by the United Nations expert on torture highlights the need to end abuses against people with mental disabilities. Read more »
Urgent Need to Fix Ghana's Mental Health System
The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has expressed deep concern at the state of Ghana's mental health care system, and called for urgent reform of both psychiatric hospitals and prayer camps warehousing those with mental disabilities.
At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.
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20 November 2013
Ghana: Abuse of People with Disabilities
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- Human Rights Watch
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People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana. The Ghanaian government has ... see more »
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2 October 2012
Like a Death Sentence: Abuses against Persons with Mental Disabilities in Ghana
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- Human Rights Watch
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This report describes how thousands of people with mental disabilities are forced to live in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers, ... see more »
