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Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse
HRW, 2 October 2012
People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The… Read more »
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Ghana: Misery of 'Prayer Camps' for Mentally Ill
UNIRIN, 4 October 2012
Doris Appiah, 57, has bipolar disorder. In her early twenties, she was sent to an overcrowded psychiatric hospital followed by a "prayer camp" to be treated. She stayed there for… Read more »
Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse
In an 84-page report titled Like a Death Sentence, Human Rights Watch accuses the Ghanaian government of doing little to combat abuses of people with mental disabilities. The report alleges that they face overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in psychiatric hospitals, and are often chained to trees at spiritual healing centers.
People with presumed mental disabilities at a spiritual healing center
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3 October 2012
“Like a Death Sentence” Abuses against Persons with Mental Disabilities in Ghana
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- Human Rights Watch
- Publisher:
- 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 ... see more »
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2 October 2012
Ghana: Abuse of People with Disabilities
- Author:
- Human Rights Watch
- Publisher:
- Human Rights Watch
- Publication Date:
People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana. The Ghanaian government has ... see more »
